Kerry Reid

Factory Theater loves a good caper story, and in Ernie Deak's "The Last Big Mistake," it has one that also functions as a love letter to Chicago grit — the...

What if Holden Caulfield, the hero of J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye," had been born female and a half-century later? Adam Rapp makes a compelling, if occasionally elliptical,...

"And yet it moves." Those four words, allegedly uttered under his breath by Galileo Galilei right after recanting his views on heliocentrism under threat by the Roman Inquisition, generally pop...

For fans of classic cinema, Queen Christina of Sweden means Greta Garbo, who played the fascinating and troubled 17th century monarch in 1933's (highly fictionalized) "Queen Christina." Garbo's celebrated androgynous...

Craig Wright's play is about the 9/11 attacks only in the sense that, say, "Glengarry Glen Ross" is about real estate. His 2003 dramedy is set comfortably far away in...

Imagine the sturdy films about workplace mundanity and absurdity, "Clerks" and "Office Space" filtered through George Orwell's "1984," and you might have a glancing idea of what David Jacobi is...

It's the oldest American story in the book. Lighting out for the territory. Getting on the road or the train or the plane and going somewhere, anywhere — as long...

Set in 1933, William Inge's "A Loss of Roses" takes an unflinching snapshot of people in a small town suffering from "a depression of the heart, a drought of the...

"Accidents of fate are just the probabilities playing out," says Liz — half of the two-lives-in-one protagonist, Elizabeth, in "If/Then," the heart-on-sleeve musical about roads taken and opportunities lost now...