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From center, Rula Gardenier raises her hand while performing a scene with cast members during a rehearsal of "Gender Breakdown" at the Collaboraction Theatre Company.

Gender on stage or, what do ‘Breakdown’ and ‘Men are from Mars’ have in common?

June 5, 2018 at 10:38 p.m.

The women's marches held in protest of Donald Trump's inauguration last month threw already-fraught issues of gender discrimination into high profile. Away from the pink hats, three plays on Chicago...

Review: Men are from Mars and these jokes are from the ’90s

May 2, 2020 at 7:03 a.m.

Many years ago, John Gray — author of the help-yourself-in-relationships guide "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" — appeared on Bill Maher's old "Politically Incorrect" program. Fellow panelist...

‘Good People’: Set in Southie, a play for any of us down on our luck

May 9, 2019 at 5:39 a.m.

The white working class has been endlessly anatomized and scrutinized in pundits' think pieces since the presidential election, in which its support for Donald Trump was attributed as key to...

‘Assembled Parties’: Ambitious plans for a son, but what happened?

May 9, 2019 at 5:38 a.m.

Nicole Hollander's "Sylvia" comic introduced us to "The Woman Who Does Everything More Beautifully Than You." That captures Julie Bascov, the hostess at two very different Christmas dinners set 20...

‘Captain Blood’ at First Folio has charm, wit and good, old-fashioned swordplay

May 9, 2019 at 5:38 a.m.

"The country is all, sir. The king is not." That line in David Rice's adaptation of "Captain Blood," now in a world premiere at First Folio Theatre, scored a direct...

Was a son’s friend a jihadist? New play explores guilt ‘By Association’

May 9, 2019 at 5:38 a.m.

"Being Scared Since 2016 Is Privilege." That observation, emblazoned on a sign in the Boston incarnation of the global women's marches on Jan. 21, carries some provocative weight in Shepsu...

If you could use a little fantasy, welcome the ‘Psychonaut Librarians’

May 9, 2019 at 5:38 a.m.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on. So, we better pick the right dreams — and fight like hell for them. That's pretty much the message underlying Sean...

At Trap Door, Phedre’s lust for stepson can only end in tragedy

May 9, 2019 at 5:38 a.m.

Norma Desmond is (sort of) alive and definitely unwell. She's just going by the name "Phedre," and her address is Cortland Avenue, not Sunset Boulevard. Or so one might surmise...

Teen writers see their ideas on stage in Pegasus’ Young Playwrights Festival

June 6, 2018 at 9:25 a.m.

The old '60s saw, "Never trust anyone over 30," worked off the assumption that people (and perhaps by extension, institutions) grow more conservative as they age. But in the case...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

All funny, no ugly is the forecast for Sketchfest 2017

May 15, 2019 at 5:47 p.m.

Sketch comedy holds a mirror up to human nature as much as Shakespeare does. It just happens to be a funhouse mirror. And as Steve Martin told us years ago,...

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