Colin Douglas | Chicago Theatre Review

Author: Colin Douglas

Othello – Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Jealousy, revenge, ambition and bigotry are the motifs found in Shakespeare’s early 17th century tragedy subtitled,

A Loss of Roses – Raven Theatre

William Inge’s haunting and heartbreaking drama, set outside Kansas City during the Great Depression, didn’t fare

Doo Wop Shoo Bop – Black Ensemble

For those who lived through the 2nd millennium, the 1950’s was a decade remembered historically as the end of

Those Sensational Soulful 60’s – Black Ensemble

During the decade often referred to as the Swinging Sixties there was a degree of relaxation of sexism and racism. It

Educating Rita – Citadel Theatre

Besides Cinderella, is there any other story in all of antiquity that’s served more as a source for novels, movies, plays

Cocked – Victory Gardens

Taylor, a Chicago attorney, and her girlfriend Izzy share their lives together in an upscale Andersonville

2666 – Goodman Theatre

At what point is too much too much? Roberto Bolano’s epic, almost 900 page novel, published posthumously in

In a Word – Strawdog Theatre

Filled with anguished pain and unexpected humor, while toying with time, space and the use of words, Lauren Yee’s

Sister Act – Marriott Theatre

From the moment audiences walk into the theatre, creatively and beautifully transformed into a Catholic cathedral

The Awake – First Floor Theatre

Amidst a churning eddy of traumatic scenes, frantically and desperately narrated by various dreamers, three