In playwright Lloyd Suh’s comedy, two recent immigrants in 1973 share impressions of their strange and fascinating new country.
Review: In ‘The Heart Sellers’ at Northlight, newcomers compare notes on their adopted homeland
Category: Theater
Review: In the intense ‘A Slow Air’ at Steep Theatre, a conversation between siblings is backgrounded by a terrorist act
Scottish playwright David Harrower (“Blackbird”) is known for plays that get their power from a stark and simple exchange of words.
Review: Hugh Jackman’s warm ‘From New York, with Love’ has Broadway songs and a star wanting to share the spotlight
His show at Radio City Music Hall has songs from “The Greatest Showman” to an Olivia Newton-John hit, plus Jackman himself inviting others to share the stage.
Review: ‘Avaaz’ is a laugh-out-loud funny primer on Iran at Chicago Shakespeare
Michael Shayan’s show, in which he plays his own mother as she celebrates the Iranian New Year, has much akin to stand-up comedy and I mean that as a compliment.
David Schwimmer says he is ‘doubling down’ on Lookingglass Theatre
The famous ensemble member will be back at his home theater on Monday for a ribbon-cutting, has joined the theater’s board and says he hopes to direct and act on its stage soon.
Review: Simply put, Handspring’s ‘Life & Times of Michael K’ raises the art form of puppetry
Adapted from the novel by J.M. Coetzee, this powerful and moving play tells the story of an ordinary Black man in South Africa.
Review: The musical ‘Fun Home’ holds cartoonist Alison Bechdel’s memories up to the light
A revival by Porchlight Music Theatre is directed by Stephen Schellhardt, who played the father in a previous local production.
Review: ‘Glassheart’ by City Lit sees the ‘Beauty and the Beast’ story in a whole new light
Although I found the outcome of the story confusing, this is an intriguing show with delightful moments if you embrace the ambiguity.
Tony Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, widow of Laurence Olivier, dies at 95
Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.’s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died. She was 95.
Review: ‘Kid Prince and Pablo’ by Lifeline Theatre adds hip hop score to a classic Twain tale
This new adaptation by Chicago’s own Quijada brothers modernizes Mark Twain’s “The Prince and the Pauper.”