427 stories by "Kevin Greene"
RECOMMENDED Rajiv Joseph's 2008 play, splendidly revived by Shattered Globe Theatre, manages to make compelling theater out of origami, transforming the ancient Japanese art of paper-folding…
RECOMMENDED If you adore the satirical trivialities in Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest,” you’re sure to enjoy Shane Sakhrani’s nod to the master …
RECOMMENDED Pearl Cleage's "What I Learned In Paris" is about revolution, but not the political kind you might imagine. Maynard Jackson has just won the historical 1973 election making him t…
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a small town in America must be in possession of repressed women in want of entrepreneurial men to sweep them off their Hush Puppies-clad feet and…
RECOMMENDED A good rule of thumb for one person plays: start with a joke. It reassures the audience that they are not in for a lot of solipsistic drivel. Being the drama critic at The Wall S…
RECOMMENDED Evan Linder's world premiere "Byhalia, Mississippi" (opening simultaneously in three additional cities) presents the titled town as an easy going, slow drawl kind of place whe…
RECOMMENDED Touching on a number of perennially sensitive subjects (welfare, incarceration, urban education) and drawing links between racism, misogyny and consumerism, Kirsten Greenidge's "…
RECOMMENDED Sex sells and the more of it the better for the bottom line. This is as true in movies as it is for literature with books like "Fifty Shades of Grey" dominating the romance aisle…
The dead-child drama has become a genre unto itself. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, admittedly an odd thing to say about a category of theater focused on untimely death. Neverthe…
RECOMMENDED First there's the slow-burn, Ry Cooder-esque slide guitar. Then there's the invocation of the sun's ceaseless effrontery. All at once, everything turns the color of the devil him…
RECOMMENDED Currently in its twenty-ninth iteration, Pegasus Theatre's Young Playwrights Festival serves as an important bridge between the creative curiosity of adolescence and a healthy…
RECOMMENDED The trial run of a musical comedy on its way to Broadway is probably not the first place you'd expect to find an exploration of systematic disempowerment. Reasonably so, given…
RECOMMENDED Over a decade ago, former BBC Television hosts Daniel Clarkson and Jefferson Turner condensed the Harry Potter universe into a five minute street show. A short time later, they e…
RECOMMENDED Public safety announcement: baritones are endangered! Or maybe you, yourself, are a baritone and already knew that baritones have been relegated to revival shows as their cont…
RECOMMENDED Bruce Norris’ “Domesticated,” now playing at Steppenwolf, paints a grim future for the battle of the sexes, one void of any reconciliation beyond disdainful …
Top 5 Dramas of 2015 "Moby Dick," Lookingglass Theatre Company "Marjorie Prime," Writers Theatre "Brilliant Adventures," Steep Theatre Company "How The World Began," Rivendell Theatre…
What do you get when you combine a washed up Finnish wedding band, a missing Karelian hot pot and an idiot with a fire arm? A hostage situation! Ok, ok, that’s not a joke. Actually,…
"Is this some new genre?" whispered my companion about David Ives' verse adaptation of Jean-François Regnard's eighteenth-century farce, "Le Légataire universel." Perhaps Pomo Eroticism …
RECOMMENDED When was the last time you familiarized yourself with the story of Robin Hood? Perhaps you’ve seen Disney’s foxy 1973 version or swooned over Kevin Costner in “…
RECOMMENDED Visually austere, acoustically clean, aromatically alive, the Lincoln Park Conservatory makes a fine setting for Shakespeare's most sensuous and musical of comedies. When the lov…
RECOMMENDED I must preface this review by noting that the type of comedy you enjoy is a matter of preference. With that said, The Second City's "Holidazed and Confused Revue" is not for e…
RECOMMENDED ‘Tis the season for tradition and “A Q Brothers’ Christmas Carol,” now in its third year at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, is easily on its way to becomi…
RECOMMENDED Written almost ninety years ago, Nöel Coward's comedy "Private Lives" explores the undiscovered country of couplehood where the heat of love can sometimes burn with hate. The pl…
RECOMMENDED Simultaneously charming and edgy, snobby and subversive, frivolous and thought-provoking, Noel Coward's "Fallen Angels" is a delightful feast of contradictions. Coward's satirica…
RECOMMENDED It’s December and you can’t throw a dreidel without hitting a holiday show in Chicago. If you’re a Grinch or are already sick of the Christmas music that’…
