427 stories by "Kevin Greene"
RECOMMENDED What do I remember about high school? Traversing hallways between class and hearing gossip that would transform into a miasma of rumors about you. The friends you have aren't …
The central conflict of “Mosque Alert,” the opposition to a state-of-the-art mosque being built in Naperville, is timely: with the looming threat of a Trump presidency, hate s…
This adaptation by Jessica Wright Buha and Aileen McGroddy (who also directs) begins as a lecture on James Joyce's 1922 masterpiece with a professorial Christopher Donaldson setting the scen…
RECOMMENDED The Museum of Contemporary Art presents “Historia de Amor (Love Story)” by the Chilean theater company Teatrocinema. The production is based on a graphic novel of …
RECOMMENDED Abe Koogler's "Kill Floor" is a thoroughly unappetizing play. I mean that in the best way possible. It emphasizes emotional distance to the point of inducing a kind of horizontal…
RECOMMENDED There is a case to be made for the correlation between the expedient rise of fascism and the expansion of expressionistic art in the early twentieth century. On their respective …
RECOMMENDED It begins at the entrance to TUTA Theatre. The front door is locked so you walk around to the back alley and into the garage with the light on. Once you step past the shelves, th…
Monday “Adding Machine: The Musical” at The Hypocrites. An expressionistic take on the play of the same name. Love, murder and key changes. Through May 15. For tic…
Some dramatic concepts are more suited for a therapist's office than a theater. Such is the case with Caroline McGraw's "The Bachelors," a one-act eruption of fear and loathing now on displa…
RECOMMENDED Union General Benjamin Butler probably never realized that war could get so personal. Just weeks into the Civil War, he faced an unusual battle, an invasion of his intellectual, …
RECOMMENDED It is one thing to be captivated or even moved by theater. Yet, to be excited or energized are experiences far more rare. These are reactions spurred from witnessing originality …
RECOMMENDED I wasn't always afraid of flying. It happened somewhere in my late teens or early twenties. All of a sudden, a trip to the airport was accompanied by an intense sensation of d…
Monday “That’s Weird, Grandma: The Musical” at Barrel of Monkeys. A clever and funny, touching and poignant collection of songs based on the writings of CPS students.…
RECOMMENDED Credit the Republican Party, with their nativist platform and wall building speeches, for making this very dark and violent "West Side Story" so relevant to 2016. Often cast in s…
RECOMMENDED Of the numerous advantages to mounting a revered classic, perhaps the most underappreciated is that it actually takes the play itself largely out of the equation, freeing up the …
RECOMMENDED One of life's greatest blessings is to give life to a tiny human whose eyes look upon you with admiration and whose arms innocently stretch toward you to lead them. That blessing…
Like a car attempting to start in deep winter, A. Rey Pamatmat's "after all the terrible things I do" stutters and shakes with internal conflict. Gears grind but never fully catch. When the …
RECOMMENDED In a not too distant future with the encroaching inauguration of the United State’s first female president, a quaint and idyllic queer family bonds with their do-gooder, bi…
RECOMMENDED In some ways it's a great misfortune that Thornton Wilder wrote "Our Town." A great misfortune in the way that winning the lottery can be a great misfortune. In this case, it was…
RECOMMENDED Film noir is a stubborn genre, one that refuses to ever go completely out of style. From "Breathless" to "Inherent Vice," the best of modern noir tends to have at least one to…
RECOMMENDED It was over twenty years ago that Jonathan Larson's "Rent" first opened Off-Broadway in the New York Theatre Workshop. Like "Friends," it focused on the growing pains of young Ne…
RECOMMENDED Fate or free will? It's a dichotomy that can easily lead to insoluble clashes of conviction. In a time when we are pushed further to the margins of our own beliefs, acknowledging…
Under Lookingglass' auspices, the hot-blooded and poetically infused romanticism of Federico Garcia Lorca's "Blood Wedding" is transposed onto the American Dust Bowl. With its bountiful folk…
Monday “The Matchmaker” at Goodman Theatre. Thornton Wilder’s madcap romance and the inspiration for “Hello, Dolly!” returns to the city of its creation.Ã…
RECOMMENDED A grease of misery pervades the fast food industry"the ceaseless cycle of uniformly geometric machine-molded meat simulants over the grill in a world where parallelepiped potatoe…
