An enchanting Short Shakes for the whole family
"St. Valentine is past," as Theseus says, and the weather seems far more suitable for "A Winter's Tale," than "A Midsummer Night's Dream." But for families exhausted by the daily...
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‘White Plains’ deftly takes on the bully, victim’s revenge
'From White Plains' Tom Hanks' 1994 Oscar acceptance speech for "Philadelphia" included a shoutout to his high school drama teacher and a fellow drama classmate — as Hanks called them,...
Hilarity on the high seas at First Folio
Norovirus outbreaks notwithstanding, the weather this past month has probably made even the most cruise-averse among us think wistfully of breaking out of our ice-coated reality to pursue romance on...
Warmth, wit in this Signal production
It opens with a man standing alone at sunrise, gazing out the window with a cigarette in hand, and ends with that same man surrounded by family and friends at...
‘Golden Dragon’ has a lot on its plate
The setting for Roland Schimmelpfennig's "The Golden Dragon" is a restaurant of that name, which offers Thai/Chinese/Vietnamese cuisine from an overheated kitchen where five nameless Asian cooks sweat over the...
Spare, arresting ‘Judith: A Parting from the Body ‘
"Judith: A Parting from the Body" If you missed the Art Institute's display of Artemisia Gentileschi's 17th-century painting "Judith Slaying Holofernes," which left town this month, fear not: Trap Door...
Spare, arresting ‘Judith: A Parting from the Body ‘
"Judith: A Parting from the Body" If you missed the Art Institute's display of Artemisia Gentileschi's 17th-century painting "Judith Slaying Holofernes," which left town this month, fear not: Trap Door...
‘Golden Dragon’ has a lot on its plate
The setting for Roland Schimmelpfennig's "The Golden Dragon" is a restaurant of that name, which offers Thai/Chinese/Vietnamese cuisine from an overheated kitchen where five nameless Asian cooks sweat over the...
Family, disability and mortality, ready or not
Stage Left Theatre usually produces new plays addressing sociopolitical themes, mostly from an American perspective. So at first glance, a nearly 50-year-old British script seems an unlikely choice. But nothing...
Not the usual feminine role in ‘Through the Leaves’
"Through the Leaves" If you saw Marisa Wegrzyn's "The Butcher of Baraboo," your notions of how female butchers of a certain age hold their own in the world will get...