Symbols in ‘Milk’ tell code breaker’s story
"Pink Milk" "If you think this is going to be a history lesson, you've come to the wrong place," says a character at the top of Alex Paul Young's "Pink...
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The workplace has changed, the baking of bread hasn’t
Though it is only a few blocks from the Museum of Science and Industry, the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago remains something of a well-kept secret compared to...
Cast full of couples finds the right minor-key notes in Eclipse’s ‘Farce’
The title itself is an ironic punch line. Stuck in the limbo between the swinging '60s and the election of austerity-loving Margaret Thatcher, Alan Ayckbourn's 1975 "Bedroom Farce" is more...
Cast full of couples finds the right minor-key notes in Eclipse’s ‘Farce’
The title itself is an ironic punch line. Stuck in the limbo between the swinging '60s and the election of austerity-loving Margaret Thatcher, Alan Ayckbourn's 1975 "Bedroom Farce" is more...
Ethnic assumptions get a workout at Silk Road
Jonas Hassen Khemiri's "Invasion!," now in a local premiere with Silk Road Rising under Anna C. Bahow's direction, blends the classic nesting-stories structure of "The Arabian Nights" with contemporary riffs...
Making the most of ‘The Last Five Years’
"The Last Five Years" Boy gets goy, boy loses goy, boy writes musical about goy. All right, yes, Jason Robert Brown has denied in the past that "The Last Five...
Honest outdoor staging with no room for faux folk
It may be tempting fate to stage "The Rainmaker" outdoors. No matter how much the Curry ranch needs a good, cleansing downpour, such weather events spell box-office disaster. But on...
Honest outdoor staging with no room for faux folk
It may be tempting fate to stage "The Rainmaker" outdoors. No matter how much the Curry ranch needs a good, cleansing downpour, such weather events spell box-office disaster. But on...
Making the most of ‘The Last Five Years’
"The Last Five Years" Boy gets goy, boy loses goy, boy writes musical about goy. All right, yes, Jason Robert Brown has denied in the past that "The Last Five...
Sometimes Shakespeare just wants a beach party
If there is a contemporary poet who can compete with the Bard when it comes to lyrical expressions of longing, surely it must be Brian Wilson. And in Oak Park...