REVIEW: ‘The Midnight City’ in the Steppenwolf Garage ★★★½
Tony Fitzpatrick's latest show is his swan song to Chicago — the 55-year-old artist/poet/performer/provocateur is packing up and moving down to the Big Easy by the end of the year....
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50 shows for fall: The game’s just beginning
Cooler temperatures and changing leaves might cue the chants of "wait until next year" for Chicago baseball fans, but for theater lovers it's a whole new ballgame. Below are just...
REVIEW: ‘Lamp Oil’ at Chicago Fringe Fest ★★½
A crisis on the water unfolds in Anne Walaszek's "Lamp Oil," presented by Duplicity Ensemble at the Ketchup-less Stage (aka the Gift Theatre). A sailor (Gabriel Franken), who has been...
REVIEW: ‘Our Fair City: The Live Episode’ ★★★
The Chicago Fringe Festival turns five years old this year and is celebrating with nearly 50 performances scattered around the Jefferson Park neighborhood. "Our Fair City: The Live Episode" Dubbed...
REVIEW: ‘Clemente: The Legend of 21’ ★★
The enthusiastic homecoming for the Jackie Robinson West Little League team this past week ran through my mind as I watched Luis Caballero's hagiographic "Clemente: The Legend of 21." Is...
REVIEW: ‘The Arsonists’ at Strawdog Theatre ★★★
The last time I saw "The Arsonists" — Max Frisch's 1953 masterwork about the dangers of ignoring the obvious — was at Trap Door in 2012. That production was heavily...
REVIEW: ‘Coraline’ by Black Button Eyes Productions ★★½
Neil Gaiman's 2002 fantasy novel about a precocious 12-year-old girl, Coraline Jones, who finds a parallel and increasingly scary world on the other side of a brick wall in her...
REVIEW: ‘Fairytales: Not Suitable for Children’ in Emerald City’s Little Theatre ★½
A late-night show that requires its audience to huddle together on floor mats and tiny stools is already asking a lot. But Morgan Ashley Madison's "Fairytales: Not Suitable for Children,"...
REVIEW: ‘Some Men’ by Pride Films and Plays ★★★
Terrence McNally has served as the go-to chronicler for gay life in America — or at least for a certain subset of educated white gay men who live primarily in...
‘Dinosaur 13’ untangles Sue’s twisted tale
She's always been larger than life. Now the story of Sue the Tyrannosaurus rex, the pride of the Field Museum, hits the big screen in "Dinosaur 13," opening Friday at...