Griffin Theatre Company is pleased to launch its 2014-15 season with a new, intimate version of the Tony Award-winning Best Musical TITANIC, with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston…
Concern Worldwide, a non-governmental, international humanitarian organization committed to the relief, assistance and advancement of the most vulnerable people in the underdeveloped countri…
Nutley Little Theatre will open its production of Margaret Edson's powerful drama, “Wit,” on Friday, Nov. 7 at the NLT Barn, 47 Erie Place, Nutley.
PRIDE COMETH BEFORE AN ICEBERG Griffin Theatre Company's total triumph is a strange success. It's odd that a more intimate version of a musical called Titanic can so succeed. The cast is red…
What do you give an audience that has everything? Washington's dancegoers are among the nation's most sophisticated and privileged, so companies must think carefully about what to put before…
Nutley Little Theatre has completed casting for its production of “Wit,” an award-winning drama by Margaret Edson that will open on Friday, Nov. 7, at the NLT Barn.
Jeremy Wechsler, Artistic Director of Theatre Wit in Chicago, IL shares some exciting news about the direction Theatre Wit will take this year.
The American Theatre Wing in New York announced on Thursday the recipients of the 2014 National Theatre Company Grants. The twelve theaters include two Chicago companies, The House Theatre o…
Bad Jews, Joshua Elias Harmon's comedy about family and faith, will make its midwest premiere at Chicago's Theater Wit.
Theater Wit will perform "Bad Jews," a vicious new comedy by Joshua Harmon, this spring, a representative for the theater announced on Monday.
THE BACK STORY BEHIND MOBY DICK A thrilling feat that reclaims the past, The Whaleship Essex is sailor-playwright Joe Forbrich's detailed and driving reimagining of an 1820 tragedy that, 30 …
DUEL NATURE In Trevor, recently produced by A Red Orchid Theatre, playwright Nick Jones delivered a sardonic and heavy-handed attack on dangerous animals kept as domestic pets. He wastes no …
Be it a story of sex, booze, cocaine or, in the case of the actor Steven Strafford, crystal methamphetamine, aka the most dangerous drug in the world, the challenge with any personal narrati…
BREAKING BETTER He who laughs last laughs best"especially when you overcome an addiction to methamphetamine. So, after recovery, what do you do next? (And I don't mean Disneyland.) You turn …
Gilded Balloon, EdinburghThe legendary 'stately homo', who found fame after the 1975 TV adaptation of his autobiography, is stylishly brought back to life by Mark Farrelly in this entertaini…
By Mikhael Tara Garver. Sound design alone is not immersive performance. Immersive performance is reliant on the audience experiencing related sensory stimulation to the performer and a mult…
Scotland is on a roll at the moment, although a visit to Edinburgh suggests that the excitement over the referendum may have peaked. Not in art, however. Inspired as much by the Commonwealth…
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If you like your humor dry and your comedy subversive, you'll want to make your way to Austin Gardens to see Oak Park Festival Theatre's witty and well-paced staging of Oscar Wilde's "The Im…
THEATER REVIEW: "Merry Wives of Windsor" at First Folio ★★★ Director Nick Sandys' open-air staging of "The Merry Wives of Windsor" at First Folio opens with the entire ens…
In this age of high-profile celebrity trials we shouldn't forget that one of the very first opened at the Old Bailey on 3 April 1895. It promised to be one of the most sensational of the dec…
The Wit Theatre Company's "The Aliens," staged at the Crossroads Theater in Five points, is a meditative play, a series of languorous vignettes that measure love, death and the powerful …
COME ON AND SHOOT A PRESIDENT Assassins ushers together the horde of maniacs who have made attempts on the lives of US Presidents, seeking to examine their varying degrees of sanity, as well…
Ovalhouse, LondonChristopher Brett Bailey's show is a mesmerising experience with a surprise ending that leaves you reelingTheatre often lays special claim to its liveness. Yet it's seldom t…
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