Kerry Reid

The Modern Prometheus is getting quite a workout on Chicago stages this year, with three adaptations of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” opening this fall and a fourth in the spring. The...

Here’s something that’s hard to believe, but absolutely true: Chicago Shakespeare’s current Shakespeare in the Parks tour of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” marks the first time Barbara Gaines has ever...

The costs of warfare on the home front come into sharp — and at times almost unbearable — focus in “The Hero’s Wife,” Aline Lathrop’s taut two-character piece at Berwyn’s...

Tackling a musical adaptation of “The Taming of the Shrew” in the nearly 70-year-old footsteps of “Kiss Me, Kate” takes chutzpah. While Cole Porter can rest easy that “Shrew’d!,” now...

“This is the Plains, a state of mind, right, some spiritual affliction, like the blues” says Barbara, the eldest daughter of the Oklahoma Weston clan in Tracy Letts’ “August: Osage...

After the 2016 massacre of 49 people at Orlando’s Pulse dance club, fresh attention landed on a tragedy in the gay community decades earlier. On June 24, 1973, an arsonist...

“Easy as pie” doesn’t apply to the life of Jenna, the anguished-but-still-warmhearted baking whiz at the heart of “Waitress.” But then, the colloquialism refers not to the act of creating...