REVIEW: ‘The Vandal’ at Steep Theatre ★★★
If two shows can constitute a trend, then the latter half of 2014 is turning into the Year of the Desperate Woman Waiting for a Bus. In Martyna Majok's "Ironbound,"...
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REVIEW: ‘The Gravedigger’ at First Folio Theatre ★★★½
Creative resurrectionists can never let Mary Shelley's creature rest in peace. They pick at the bones of her story and refashion her monster into a postmodern Prometheus in their own...
REVIEW: ‘John Doe’ by Trap Door Theatre ★★★
Trap Door Theatre has made the works of Polish proto-absurdist Stanislaw Witkiewicz ("Witkacy" to the cognoscenti) a specialty from the very beginning — "The Madman and the Nun" is listed...
REVIEW: ‘At the Center’ by Agency Theater Collective ★★★
Though the shootings of unarmed black men by police officers have understandably had an increasing profile in public discourse since the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson. Mo., the Agency...
REVIEW: ‘At Home at the Zoo’ by City Lit Theater ★★★
Overt physical violence has never been a hallmark of Edward Albee's work — he's good enough at the verbal variety of bloodletting, lord knows. But there is nearly always a...
REVIEW: “Forgotten Future” by Collaboraction ★★½
As the heat rises between Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis, the state of Chicago public education has come under the stage lights in a trifecta...
REVIEW: ‘A Kurt Weill Cabaret’ by Theo Ubique Cabaret ★★★½
The distance between Berlin and Broadway is about 4,000 miles. The distance between the onlookers and the performers in Theo Ubique's "A Kurt Weill Cabaret" can be as close as...
REVIEW: ‘Antony and Cleopatra: Undone’ by Skyline StageWorks ★★
Skyline StageWorks makes its inaugural bow with Patricia Henritze and Shawna Tucker's reduced take on Shakespeare's tragedy. "Antony and Cleopatra: Undone" feels more unfinished than undone. But as a vehicle...
REVIEW: ‘Miracles in the Fall’ by Polarity Ensemble ★★
Chuck O'Connor's period-piece drama has the aura of an old basement rec room, where the musty memories of family arguments cling to the walls, no matter how much psychic ammonia...
REVIEW: ‘Jane Eyre’ at Lifeline Theatre ★★★
Charlotte Bronte's best-known novel, as adapted by Christina Calvit, makes its third appearance since 1991 on Lifeline's stage. But this production, directed by Dorothy Milne, marks my first visit to...