Kerry Reid

Eugene O'Neill and Ralph Ellison generally don't hang out together, in my experience. But as I watched Monty Cole's taut and imaginative staging of O'Neill's "The Hairy Ape" at Oracle...

"Is there anything you can't do, Jeeves?" asks the perpetually-in-a-pickle Bertie Wooster of his stoic manservant — to which the latter responds "I couldn't say, sir." And indeed, over the...

There's a wistful irony threaded throughout Signal Ensemble's final production. In Heidi Schreck's "The Consultant," a struggling graphic designer at an equally struggling pharmaceutical marketing firm tries to figure out...

There's a whole lotta shaking going on this month in the western suburbs with two musicals about teen culture, late 1950s-to-early 1960s style. Aurora's Paramount Theatre is opening a new...

A belated Christmas card has just arrived in Chicago theater. It's a bit grimy around the edges and smells like it spent the holidays passed out in a gin joint....

Something's rotten in the duchy of Malfi. Lust, revenge, double-crosses — even the holy books are poisonous. But in Christopher Marino's high-octane staging of "The Duchess of Malfi" for Trap...

When the Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival (aka "SketchFest") first started in 2002, it stretched out over seven weeks. Now claiming bragging rights as the world's largest festival of its kind,...