‘Parents Terribles’ is darker than the typical farce
"Les Parents Terribles" If family dysfunction crossed with venomous French farce is your bag, then The Artistic Home offers a deluxe set of Louis Vuitton luggage with Jean Cocteau's 1938...
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Roomful of tech-savvy millennials should know better
The New Colony's contribution to this year's Garage Rep at Steppenwolf tries mightily for a "ripped from the headlines" approach to issues of surveillance and "hacktivism." Unfortunately, creators Andrew Hobgood...
In the Garage, a retelling of ‘Bacchae’ that’s willing to get messy
We're at that time of year where the gray mounds of ice and snow begin to dissolve, revealing the abandoned trash of earlier seasons and promising that the tender shoots...
A brash, bittersweet look at life in Memphis
Since 2009, Steppenwolf's innovative Garage Rep series has provided hospitality and exposure to itinerant smaller companies in town. The guests enjoy the benefits of association with Steppenwolf's prestigious profile and...
Chicago Cultural Center: Free concerts and events and solitude
Libraries represent perhaps the best crossroads of our public and private selves available in the civic landscape. They are where we quietly seek out other peoples' stories while surrounded by...
Chicago Cultural Center, free concerts and events
Libraries represent perhaps the best crossroads of our public and private selves available in the civic landscape. They are where we quietly seek out other peoples' stories while surrounded by...
Adapting Chekhov, ‘Soldiers’ is a play fighting with itself
"Three Soldiers (for Sisters)" Aaron Sawyer folds, spindles and mutilates Chekhov for the age of perpetual warfare in "Three Soldiers (for Sisters)" with Red Theater, with results that range from...
‘Not a Cure for Cancer’ offers no easy answers
"Do you have any questions?" For a person facing a cancer diagnosis and their loved ones, there are lots of questions — and they are both profound and ridiculous. Even...
In ‘Mishap,’ sorting through grief in glare of the spotlight
"Mishap!" Ragnarok, the predicted Viking apocalypse, didn't exactly set the world on fire Saturday. But the characters in Icelandic playwright Bjarni Jonsson's "Mishap!" smolder with half-buried grief, thwarted lust and...
In ‘Mishap,’ sorting through grief in glare of the spotlight
"Mishap!" Ragnarok, the predicted Viking apocalypse, didn't exactly set the world on fire Saturday. But the characters in Icelandic playwright Bjarni Jonsson's "Mishap!" smolder with half-buried grief, thwarted lust and...