Timing is everything, and The Other Theatre Company's current revival of Martin Sherman's 1979 drama "Bent," about gay men in Germany during the Holocaust, undoubtedly resonates more strongl…
Long before he became the artistic director at Victory Gardens Theater, Chay Yew won plaudits for his 1992 play, "Porcelain," which jumped from London's Royal Court Theatre to numerous produ…
Earlier this year at 16th Street Theater, Elaine Romero unveiled "Graveyard of Empires," the first play in her "U.S. at War" trilogy, which took an elliptical but ultimately poignant journey…
The image of a black man as Abraham Lincoln seemingly haunts the fertile imagination of Suzan-Lori Parks. She won a Pulitzer Prize for 2002's "Topdog/Underdog," in which a black man named Li…
Harper Lee's novel packs a wallop at any time. But seeing Christopher Sergel's adaptation of "To Kill a Mockingbird" at Oak Park Festival Theatre the night after the hate-crime shootings at …
The late Christopher Hitchens' infamous 2007 screed for Vanity Fair about why women aren't funny reads today as a quaint artifact " almost like coming across a Victorian tract warning women …
The late Christopher Hitchens' infamous 2007 screed for Vanity Fair about why women aren't funny reads today as a quaint artifact - almost like coming across a Victorian tract warning women …
Given the ever-expanding and soul-numbing roll call of spree-shooting massacres in the United States " Columbine to Aurora to Sandy Hook " the name "Marc Lepine" probably barely registers. B…
Given the ever-expanding and soul-numbing roll call of spree-shooting massacres in the United States - Columbine to Aurora to Sandy Hook - the name "Marc Lepine" probably barely registers. B…
The story of the Irish potato famine has been recounted exhaustively, but in America we mostly hear about it as the opening of the floodgates of Irish immigration to the states, with all the…
Pivot Arts Festival enters its third year on Thursday with a 10-day line-up of events spread throughout the Uptown, Edgewater and Rogers Park neighborhoods " puppetry to dance, spoken word t…
Pivot Arts Festival enters its third year on Thursday with a 10-day line-up of events spread throughout the Uptown, Edgewater and Rogers Park neighborhoods - puppetry to dance, spoken word t…
We get it. Between all the outdoor festivals and the sporting events and replenishing your supply of Vitamin D at the beach, it's tough to find time to go to the theater. But some of the bes…
We get it. Between all the outdoor festivals and the sporting events and replenishing your supply of Vitamin D at the beach, it's tough to find time to go to the theater. But some of the bes…
The recent HBO documentary "Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck" gave a piquant and forlorn glimpse into the tortured soul of the Nirvana frontman. But though Cobain and Courtney Love's daughter, F…
The Savages of Chicago get fictionalized next season on ABC as "The Real O'Neals," in which a close-knit Catholic family turns topsy-turvy when the youngest son - based on author and sex-adv…
The Savages of Chicago get fictionalized next season on ABC as "The Real O'Neals," in which a close-knit Catholic family turns topsy-turvy when the youngest son " based on author and sex-adv…
Earlier this week, a team of biologists and social researchers released a study that suggests being poor literally ages people at the cellular level. And of course they found their research …
Dr. Crippen and H.H. Holmes, have you met George Joseph Smith? Perhaps you might know him as Henry Williams. Or John Lloyd. Whatever you call him, you must recognize him as one of your unhol…
As anyone who has lost a loved one can attest, memories are both friend and foe. We want to remember and fear forgetting. After all, if we can't find them in memory, then they are truly lost…
It's a long way from Broadway to Kingsbury Avenue. But at one point in "Undressed," the new sketch show at the Mission Theater, the echoes of Alison Bechdel's "Fun Home" ring loud and clear.
It's a long way from Broadway to Kingsbury Avenue. But at one point in "Undressed," the new sketch show at the Mission Theater, the echoes of Alison Bechdel's "Fun Home" ring loud and clear.
The Prozorov sisters pine for Moscow as their world turns Paris Green. Throughout Geoff Button's cunning and muscular production of "Three Sisters" with The Hypocrites, verdant shades remini…
The Prozorov sisters pine for Moscow as their world turns Paris Green. Throughout Geoff Button's cunning and muscular production of "Three Sisters" with The Hypocrites, verdant shades remini…
So much depends upon a red child's wagon, glazed with saltwater beside the white neurotics. True, William Carlos Williams doesn't figure into Terrence McNally's 1991 play "Lips Together, Tee…