‘Lifeboat’ tells harrowing story through eyes of young survivors
"Lifeboat" Forget about Jack and Rose. If you want to introduce your kids — and yourself — to a shipwreck story with the full panoply of human drama (class difference,...
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Solo show has some gaps in tracing the life of Emma Goldman
Given the rough treatment that the Chicago Daily Tribune meted out to the real Emma Goldman in 1901, it's tempting to make up for those earlier trespasses in considering "The...
Choose your own Shakespearean spectacle at Redmoon
Redmoon shakes away the darkness of winter and shows off its vast warehouse home in Pilsen to fine effect in "Bellboys, Bears and Baggage," conceived by Jim Lasko and Blake...
Loneliness is the backdrop for Tennessee Williams’ ‘Vieux Carre’
"Vieux Carre" Tennessee Williams began "Vieux Carre" in 1938, and it feels like a continuation of "The Glass Menagerie," with the never-named Writer, fresh from St. Louis, providing Tom-like narration...
A guide to walking tours in Chicago, Evanston
How many times has this happened to you? You're taking out-of-town visitors around the Loop or another popular neighborhood, and they point to a building you've seen thousands of times...
A guide to walking tours in Chicago, Evanston
How many times has this happened to you? You're taking out-of-town visitors around the Loop or another popular neighborhood, and they point to a building you've seen thousands of times...
A guide to walking tours in Chicago, Evanston
How many times has this happened to you? You're taking out-of-town visitors around the Loop or another popular neighborhood, and they point to a building you've seen thousands of times...
A dark whirlwind in totalitarian world of ‘Vatzlav’
"Vatzlav" "What country, friends, is this?" Since we're in Trap Door territory, it's safe to assume that the title character in Slawomir Mrozek's "Vatzlav" hasn't washed ashore on Illyria –...
Frank Lloyd Wright homes do-it-yourself tour
Frank Lloyd Wright's house designs famously include a "path of discovery" that take visitors through a few turns before they find themselves inside — often through a front door that...
An incomplete picture of violent future world in ‘Trace’
Earlier this year in Steppenwolf's Garage Rep, the New Colony premiered "ReWILDing Genius," Andrew Hobgood and Megan Johns' portrait of a group of young, and mostly white, tech-obsessed millennials who...