Author: Kevin Curran
Confronting the Past, Dreaming of the Future
HeLa – Sideshow Theater Company
HeLa, a new play by J. Nicole Brooks, produced by the Sideshow Theater Company premiered at the Greenhouse Theater Center this weekend. The play weaves together three stories.
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The Safe House
The Safe House – City Lit Theater
The Safe House, premiering this month at City Lit Theater, focuses on Bridget, a young actress in 1982 returning to her family’s home in Lansing, Michigan, and her grandmother, Hannah.
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Old Sins Cast Long Shadows
Ghosts – Redtwist Theatre
Ghosts, by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, had its world premiere in 1882 – in Chicago, of all places. Like Ibsen’s other works, it’s a
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Proof – Skokie Theatre
Proof tells the story of Catherine, a young woman whose father, a legendary mathematician and professor at the University of Chicago,
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American Revolution – Theater Unspeakable
Premiering last week at the Greenhouse Theater Center, Theater Unspeakable’s American Revolution is show that uses seven actors on a
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WaistWatchers the Musical
WaistWatchers the Musical – Royal George Theatre
WaistWatchers is about a group of friends at a women’s gym, all of whom are trying to navigate their complicated lives while
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Which Six People?
Six Degrees of Separation – Red Twist Theatre
Red Twist Theatre is one of my favorites in the city. Every so often it strikes me how lucky I am that next to my local coffee shop is a world-class theater. Tucked in a storefront in Edgewater, the entire theater is about the size of a modest one-bedroom apartment. The result is that the audience and the show occupy the same, small space. The first show I saw there a few years ago was their production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and I spent the play’s three hours as much in George and Martha’s living room as their actual guests.* The same sense of intimacy pervades their new production of Six Degrees of Separation, John Guare’s play, based on the almost unbelievable true story about a charismatic young man who charms his way into a wealthy Manhattan couple’s home pretending to be the son of Sidney Poitier.
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