427 stories by "Kevin Greene"
RECOMMENDED There are opposing impulses at war in Ike Holter’s “Prowess”: talking shit and talking about shit. The result of this conflict is the feeling that Holter …
1 The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (Goodman Theatre) Lorraine Hansberry’s prophetic second play could clearly see the writing hanging over the wall 2 The Art of Falling (T…
By Danielle Levsky When Peter Masterton isn't practicing a scene as the Green Goblin, he stands backstage and checks his smartphone, sometimes scanning his Facebook news feed or looking f…
RECOMMENDED The integration of improvisation, scripted text and fourth wall breaks is surprisingly smooth in Court Theatre's Midwest premiere of "One Man, Two Guvnors" after its successes…
From a purely economic perspective, Chicago Shakespeare Theater's "Tug of War: Foreign Fire" is a pretty good deal. With a running time equivalent to three full-length plays (sans roughly se…
RECOMMENDED "Body of an American" begins in 2007 with playwright Dan O'Brien listening to photojournalist Paul Watson being interviewed by Terry Gross on "Fresh Air." Depressed and anx…
Monday “The Distance” at Haven Theatre. A show that explores the outer limits of “no matter what.” Through June 26. For tickets and more information visit haven…
Franz Kafka and Philip Glass are a match made in heaven. They both experiment with form within the boundaries of classic genres, displacing the audience just slightly to the left or right of…
Fortysomething Bill can't free himself from business"the American religion. He's so obsessed about his failing sales job that he won't stop thinking about it even on New Year's Eve, when he'…
RECOMMENDED Dialectic"the creative interplay of seemingly opposing positions to produce advancement"is both the theme and structure of Scott Carter's absorbing and illuminating play. The dis…
Theatre Y's "3 Sisters" is both a continuation and adaptation of Chekhov’s play of the same name. Despite beginning at the end, we're thrust right back into the original, albeit with a…
RECOMMENDED "We don't kill them because they're bad. We kill them because we're bad," one of the seasoned vets of "The Secretaries" informs the new girl. As far as workplace bonding activ…
RECOMMENDED Raven Theatre’s production of "The House of Blue Leaves," written by John Guare and directed by JoAnn Montemurro, begins almost unnoticed. The live audience chatters over t…
1 Dry Land (Rivendell Theatre Ensemble) Take a deep breath, dive in and don’t stop till you reach the other side 2 Once in a Lifetime (Strawdog Theatre Company) A bittersweet yet fitti…
By Hugh Iglarsh The Haymarket affair remains not just a defining moment in Chicago history but also a contested and ambiguous one. The basic facts are well-established: at the end of a labor…
RECOMMENDED "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window" is steeped in the political, artistic and intellectual soup of the sixties. While Lorraine Hansberry evidently had no love (and little resp…
RECOMMENDED Howard Ashman and Alan Menken's celebrated "Little Shop of Horrors" is a tunefully amusing musical"and that's partly what makes it so scary. Telling its story of love and murder …
Monday “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window” at Goodman Theatre. The political and the personal collide in Lorraine Hansberry’s prescient mid-century drama.…
This election cycle is showing how irretrievably broken the two-party system is. There are candidates on both sides that no one is particularly enthused about, yet we are bullied by propagan…
The wanderer's dream, a haven in the moment of need, dims any disbelief the moment you walk into the 100 Miles Inn of The New Colony's "Even Longer and Farther Away." Seated at tables with t…
While watching "Taste” you won't know whether to laugh or cringe. In other dramatic circumstances this might be considered a virtue. However in Red Theater's production, Benjamin Brand…
RECOMMENDED What do you get when you take the dramatic sensibilities of Writers Theatre and mix it up with the comedic instincts of The Second City? The answer is a slick, funny and refreshi…
RECOMMENDED Jessica Anne is a tactful truth-teller, performance artist and oathbreaker; Mike Hamilton is the best actor she knows. "Mike Mother" is ninety minutes of being locked in a roo…
RECOMMENDED At first glance, the 1930s showbiz comedy "Once in a Lifetime" may seem like an odd choice for Strawdog Theatre Company's final mainstage production in their home on Broadway. Fo…
Last Friday night I went to see Shaw's 1914 towering tragic-comic masterpiece presented in a "black box" theater on the fourth floor of a warehouse. Experience told me that “Pygmali…
