Prejudice Without the Pride

Our Class – Remy Bumppo

History, as they say, often repeats itself. We are meant to learn from the past. For example, the world recoiled in horror once it discovered the

Turning Back the Covers

Songs From an Unmade Bed – Pride Film and Plays

Set in a tiny subterranean performance space that’s about as big as a bedroom, two young men, ably accompanied by musical director Robert

Love with a Twist

Tristan & Yseult

As audiences arrive for this unexpectedly quirky, magically charged production they are given a balloon to inflate and release during the play’s

Primal Screams

The Wild

As the opening production of Steppenwolf’s fifth annual Garage Rep, this movement-based theatrical group presents a performance piece created entirely by its eight-member ensemble and directed by Thom Pasculli, inspired by the myth of Dionysus and featuring text by prolific playwright Charles L. Mee

A Dickensian Delight at Lifeline Theatre

Lifeline Theatre – A Tale of Two Cities

Lifeline Theatre’s “A Tale of Two Cities” is a suspenseful and emotional journey to the past.

Book ‘Em, Michaels

Corpus Delicti – Madkap Productions

Sometimes a play reads well on the page, offering just the right amount of drama and social commentary. Then, when it’s on its feet in an actual, full-scale production, its shortcomings become evident and sometimes outweigh its positive qualities. Such is the case with the staging of David Alex’s latest script. The prolific playwright has written many successful plays and this new thriller does show promise.

Broadway in Chicago: All That Jazz and Then Some

Chicago

For a show that’s been around for almost four decades, Kander & Ebb’s Vaudevillian satire of the justice system and, more specifically, criminals as celebrities shows no signs of running out of steam.

Goodman Theatre: Gentrified and Jumpy

Buzzer – Goodman Theatre

With a black president serving his second term in the White House, America may have grown up a bit with regard to its long history of racial problems and prejudice, but playwright Tracey Scott Wilson, in her latest play, argues that we still have a long, long way to go toward maturity. Racial acceptance is still more of a myth than a reality in America.

BoHo Theatre: Musical Menace and Mythology

Sparked by the rumors and stories surrounding the life and death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, prolific playwright Peter Shaffer (Royal Hunt of the Sun, Black Comedy, Lettice and Lovage) followed up his West End and Broadway hit “Equus” with this historically based murder mystery.