Revisiting a Post-Apocalyptic Play in the Pandemic
Anne Washburn's phantasmagoric "Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play" is getting a timely new run at Theater Wit in Chicago.
Anne Washburn's phantasmagoric "Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play" is getting a timely new run at Theater Wit in Chicago.
The first theatrical adaptation of a Saul Bellow novel is about to open in the city, and campus, that helped shape his sensibility.
The play, about a divisive antihero and whistle-blower, has no good guys, and a town tragically divided by politics.
Productions of Genet's play "The Maids" have variously zeroed in on class, gender, race and, now, an obsession with celebrity.