1,044 stories by "Kerry Reid"
Relationships and 'yes, and' guide HMS Media's approach to filming live shows.
If COVID-19 hadn't shuttered all the theaters in town about a month ago, Scott Sil…
Arts for Illinois offers short-term assistance. Will it have long-term implications for funding?
It came in waves last month. At first, we had a trickle of annou…
The best online options for enjoying theater from local, national, and international companies
I'm compiling this list of online theater options on World Theatre…
From Warp! to Re-Animator, Gordon told the stories he wanted to see his way.
When current mystery novelist and former Reader theater critic Lenny Kleinfeld (aka …
Steven Strafford's solo remains honest and hilarious, even through a screen.
Steven Strafford was supposed to be live onstage at Berwyn's 16th Street Theater thi…
Theater Wit's production about a disabled schemer carries on online.
I spend more evenings than most people in the dark with other people, watching yet other peo…
Where to find the latest information on how companies and venues are responding to the pandemic
What a difference a couple of days makes. On Tuesday, the League …
Sarah Ruhl examines old-fashioned female "hysteria" and newfangled treatments.
Imagine Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" crossed with…
Lookingglass delivers a stunning world premiere about Chicago's first woman mayor, public housing, and race.
"This ain't Walter Lee Younger's Chicago no more," d…
Court Theatre's revival puts us in the center of ancient artifacts and contemporary conundrums.
"Rage"Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles," begins Rob…
Maria Dizzia talks about playing Heidi Schreck, high school debate, and the power of the 14th Amendment.
Heidi Schreck's 2017 play What the Constitution Means to…
Lifeline's staging of Charles Johnson's novel has sea legs.
Lighting out for the territory, as Huck Finn put it, may be central to the American dream of liberty,…
Erika L. Sánchez's novel gets a stellar stage life in Isaac Gómez's adaptation.
There is a moment in I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter where Amá (C…
Actors Gymnasium combines circus arts and a poignant story of aging in their annual winter show.
Actors Gymnasium primarily functions as a training school in the…
How to Defend Yourself and Do You Feel Anger? ask us to consider how to survive patriarchy without losing our minds"and bodies.
The fish has rotted from the head…
A wealthy Black family confronts secrets and internalized self-loathing in Lydia Diamond's acerbic drama.
In 2017, First Floor Theater premiered Leah Nanako Wink…
Lorraine Hansberry's classic gets a sturdy and heartfelt revival.
Before Ta-Nehisi Coates laid out "The Case for Reparations" in the Atlantic in 2014, Lorraine H…
Aguijón's U.S. premiere of Sergio Blanco's Cherry Orchard update is dark and chilly.
Anton Chekhov's famous dictum that if a gun is introduced in the first ac…
This musical take on Austen's oft-adapted tale skims the surface.
With Autumn de Wilde's new film version of Jane Austen's Emma being released next week (the sev…
Theatre Above the Law produces an Elaine May deep cut.
The Boys in the Band at Windy City Playhouse isn't the only 1960s counterculture show in town. Theatre Abo…
Bertie Wooster isn't the dimmest bulb onstage in First Folio's Wodehouse romp.
If your patience with upper-class twits being bailed out by their underlings is th…
A self-defense class reveals hidden vulnerabilities in Liliana Padilla's world premiere.
Last summer, Selina Fillinger's drama Something Clean asked us to consid…
Isaac Gomez's world premiere at Steep takes us over the border of trauma and truth.
If you're in the mood for some serious decolonizing after the Jeanine Cummins…
Winter theater and dance in Chicago provides a home away from home.
On nights when the temperature falls into single digits and icy sidewalks (clear that stuff, …
On nights when the temperature falls into single digits and icy sidewalks (clear that stuff, people!) make the public way treacherous, it's easy to find reasons to stay home.Â
But the mon…
