Treasures abound at museum gift shops
Forget about Black Friday and Even Blacker Thursday. If you want a shopping experience with educational appeal that also gives you a feel-good glow, make the gift shops at museums...
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Alien vampire and cruel humanity at Trap Door
"Blood on the Cat's Neck" Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a pioneer of New German Cinema, flamed out in 1982 at age 36 from a drug overdose. He packed a lot into...
An intelligent show about a crooked life
Some are born corrupt, some achieve corruption, and some have corruption thrust upon them. And then there's Stuart Levine. The star witness (or "historic cooperator," as the prosecution dubbed him)...
HOLIDAY GUIDE 2013: Dozens more shows for the season
Thanksgiving is as late as it can be, and Hanukkah is earlier than usual this year, but the holiday shows always arrive right on schedule. From warmhearted theatrical classics to...
HOLIDAY GUIDE 2013: Dozens more shows for the season
Thanksgiving is as late as it can be, and Hanukkah is earlier than usual this year, but the holiday shows always arrive right on schedule. From warmhearted theatrical classics to...
Religious message comes through the loudest in ‘Paulus’
Call it "The Last Temptation of Paul." Israeli playwright Motti Lerner's "Paulus," now in its world premiere with Silk Road Rising, follows a bit of the template used by Martin...
Real-world issues haunt horror-comedy ‘Blacula’
Halloween 2013 is in the rearview mirror, but two shows keep the spooky shenanigans going. "Blacula: Young, Black and Undead" I haven't seen the 1972 blaxploitation classic that shares a...
Real-world issues haunt horror-comedy ‘Blacula’
Halloween 2013 is in the rearview mirror, but two shows keep the spooky shenanigans going. "Blacula: Young, Black and Undead" I haven't seen the 1972 blaxploitation classic that shares a...
Generational pain, 75 years after Kristallnacht
German philosopher Theodor Adorno's assertion that "to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric" hangs over Ron Hirsen's earnest 2002 one-act "Elegy," now in its Chicago premiere in commemoration of the...
Generational pain, 75 years after Kristallnacht
German philosopher Theodor Adorno's assertion that "to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric" hangs over Ron Hirsen's earnest 2002 one-act "Elegy," now in its Chicago premiere in commemoration of the...