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Monthly Archives: April 2016

The Q Brothers’ Othello: the Remix – Chicago Shakespeare Theatre

One of the many highlights of CST’s Shakespeare 400 Chicago celebration is this remount of the company’s wildly

Carlyle – Goodman Theatre

As the election draws near and the Republican party seems poised to implode upon itself, Thomas Bradshaw has

Dreamgirls – Porchlight Music Theatre

Porchlight Music Theatre’s highly anticipated staging of 1982’s multi-Tony Award-winning musical is loosely based on

Trash – New American Folk Theatre

The Midwest premiere of prolific, gay playwright Johnny Drago’s appropriately titled play is a mixed bag. Bygone fame

Mary Page Marlowe – Goodman Theatre

A young mother sits in the booth of a restaurant. The conversation she’s about to have isn’t easy or new. She’s about to

The Women of Lockerbie – AstonRep Theatre Company

On December 21, 1988 high over the skies of Lockerbie, Scotland, a terrorist’s bomb exploded bringing down Pan Am

The Adding Machine – The Hypocrites

The humdrum, day-to-day existence of a man who’s spent 25 years doing the same, boring job, lovelessly married to

Jabari Dreams of Freedom – Chicago Children’s Theatre

Listening to the evening news can be more frightening for a child than reading any of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps novels.

Hazel – Drury Lane Theatre

Back in the early 1960’s, a no-nonsense, take-charge live-in maid named Hazel Burke burst into American homes