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  • Frightening twist on the parental bond
    Chicago Tribune

    THEATER REVIEW: 'Mine' at the Gift Theatre ★★★½ THEATER REVIEW: 'Mine' at the Gift Theatre ★★★½ ... "Mine," the very arresting and intensely personal new play by Laura Marks at the Gift Theatre, begins with a you

  • Reimagined ‘Love’ hits same themes, again
    Chicago Sun-Times

    Watching the kitschy “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” in its latest incarnation at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, the ultimate life’s cliche kept popping into my head: Love is hard work. Duh. After two hours of this off-Broad

  • Review: Mine/The Gift Theatre
    Newcity Stage

    “You’ll have plenty of time to hold her tomorrow. You’ll have the whole rest of your life.” So says brand-new daddy and eager-to-sleep husband Peter (Gabriel Franken) to his excited but exhausted wife Mari (Hillary Clemens) late on the eve of

  • 'Rudolph' introduces Milwaukee kids' theater
    Chicago Tribune

    The holiday attraction at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place will be a show with origins at First Stage, an Equity children's theater in Milwaukee.    

  • There’s Sex in Your Violence: BONEdanse’s “bully.punk.riot.” is a Mosh Pit of Performance
    Newcity Stage

    And not just sex: elation, camaraderie, play and, of course, mindlessness, frustration and blind rage. The herds explored in BONEdanse’s “bully.punk.riot.” are unquestionably aggressive ones, but the spirit fueling the mass hysteria ranges from

  • Words cut like a knife in Mary-Arrchie’s ‘Uncle Bob’
    Chicago Sun-Times

    When the lights go up on “Uncle Bob,” Austin Pendleton’s treatise on loneliness, failure and tenuous redemption, the audience is introduced to the title character with a subtle nod to Samuel Beckett’s “Krapp’s Last Tape.” Only instead

  • Stars of today and yesteryear brighten Just for Laughs
    Chicago Tribune

    The TBS Just for Laughs comedy festival has wrapped for another summer in Chicago, having played out in venues changing from the Chicago Theatre to Stage 773. Here are reviews from select shows over the weekend; check back Tuesday for a report on Bil

  • Poring over sexual identity then and now
    Chicago Tribune

    THEATER REVIEW: 'The Pride' at About Face Theatre ★★★½ THEATER REVIEW: 'The Pride' at About Face Theatre ★★★½ ... About Face has turned to a richly complex and beautifully wrought British play, Alexi Kaye Campbel

  • Writers' Theatre releases seasonal casting
    Chicago Tribune

    Writers Theatre in Glecoe has announced some of its seasonal casting for 2013-14.    

  • Just for Laughs: Bill Maher knows his audience
    Chicago Tribune

    The last time Bill Maher headlined at the Chicago Theatre, he had Ann Coulter along for, forgive me, balance. That, it felt, was a rivalry born in mutual expediency, a mock political debate for the 2009 Speaker Series. Just as Coulter's conservative

  • Hard to resist the call of Howlin' Wolf
    Chicago Tribune

    THEATER REVIEW: "Ain't No Crying the Blues (In the Memory of Howlin' Wolf)" at Black Ensemble Theatre ★★★ THEATER REVIEW: "Ain't No Crying the Blues (In the Memory of Howlin' Wolf)" at Black Ensemble Theatre ★★★ ..

  • 'Peter and the Starcatcher' in Chicago next spring
    Chicago Tribune

    The national tour of the Broadway hit "Peter and the Starcatcher," a prequel to "Peter Pan" aimed mostly at adults, will stop through Chicago for two weeks next April at the Bank of America Theatre, 18 W. Monroe St.