Kerry Reid

What happens when you have to do the same show, night after night, with someone you're starting to loathe? That's the premise behind Silent Theatre Company's clever — and surprisingly...

The double nature of the late composer/entertainer Peter Allen's life is hinted at in the title of "The Boy from Oz," the jukebox musical about Allen that earned Hugh Jackman...

Small word choices reveal universes in Robert Tenges' tense "Whatever," now in a world premiere at the Side Project under Adam Webster's direction. The title itself — that well-worn passive-aggressive...

On the Spot Theatre Company misses the mark with "Eugene," Michael Brayndick's dutiful but dull adaptation of Honore Balzac's "Pere Goriot." Set in 1819 Paris, during the Bourbon Restoration, Balzac's...

Oak Park Festival Theatre closes out its summer season with Shakespeare's not-so-fine bromance, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona," directed by Lavina Jadhwani. Full disclosure: This might be my least favorite...

For some of us, it's impossible to believe that the upheavals of the mid-1990s — the Rodney King riots, the O.J. Simpson trial — happened over 20 years ago. So...

It sounds like a classic improv genre mashup: Let's take Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction" and do it in a pseudo-Elizabethan style! And if Commedia Beauregard's "Bard Fiction" were a short...

The "green-ey'd monster" struts and frets against the green foliage in First Folio Theatre's annual outdoor Shakespeare production. But unlike "Othello," there's no Iago in "The Winter's Tale" to stoke...

The decline of traditional industries in northern England in the late 20th century was undoubtedly bad for workers — but it proved to be fertile ground first for filmmakers and...