Echoes of a Crumbling Republic: Review of “Berlin” at Chicago’s Court Theatre (2025)
Berlin at Chicago’s Court Theatre (April–May 2025) was nothing short of a theatrical...
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“Leili And Majnun:” An Ancient Love Story For Modern Times
We all know the iconic closing lines: “For never was a story of more woe / Than this of...
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What Happens In Mecca, Stays In Mecca: “Pilgrimage” By Humaira Ghilzai And Bridgette Dutta Portman
Golden Thread Productions and Z Space’s world premiere of Pilgrimage, written by Humaira...
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Inside Chicago Court Theatre’s “Berlin”–Turning a Graphic Novel into Live Theatre: An Exclusive Interview with Playwright Mickle Maher
Praised by the Houston Chronicle as “one of the most original voices in American theater today,”...
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Tom Block Sparks Arts Activists
“It’s completely organic. We take the best work from the United States, New York City, and around the world. We’ve worked with artists from 117 countries, 30 tribal nations. Every year in our Festival, you’re going to see, we have somewhere between 20 and 25 countries represented by maybe 30 states.”
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Dostoevsky on Stage. “The Mutt” by Anoushka Nesterova and Elena Che at the IATI Theater, New York
Dostoevsky is hard to read, harder to translate, and even harder to adapt for stage. The Mutt by...
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#Me Too Oedipus
The British directing star Robert Icke specializes in contemporary adaptations of classics. He...
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Dimension Zero: All Judy, No Punch
Dimension Zero, the new sci-fi puppet musical from the Boxcutter Collective, arrives at HERE arts...
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Dupes of Hazard
The farcical premise of Rajiv Joseph’s play Archduke—just opened at the Roundabout’s Laura Pels...
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Nearly Finished
With a depressingly vacuous, celebrity-circus Waiting for Godot sucking up so much oxygen on...
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Checking The Boxes
I went to Caroline Guiela Nguyen’s Lacrima at BAM with great eagerness and curiosity. This was a...
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The Queen of Versailles Musical or the Funeral of the “American dream.”
The Queen of Versailles. A New Musical will officially open on Broadway, at the St. James Theatre...
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Barbarians in Midtown
The Terrence McNally/Stephen Flaherty/Lynn Ahrens musical Ragtime is not the subtlest theater...
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“All Right. Good Night.:” A Poetic Meditation on the Art of Letting Go
In All Right. Good Night., German docu-theater artist Helgard Haug turns loss into a language. The...
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Bloody Ignorant Apes
Absurd as it may seem, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, a demanding play about existential...
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Taking A Hit
James Graham’s play Punch tells the true story of a shiftless, belligerent rowdy who heedlessly...
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Maestras On The Podium: Women Conductors On Broadway, Then And Now
When I was four years old, I asked my parents for piano lessons. We always had a piano in the...
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Welcome To The Machine
Among the most depressing facets of Donald Trump’s pathology is how all-consuming his hunger for...
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Cruelty, Guilt, And Redemption Intertwine In “The Mutt” At IATI Theater
With minimal décor and symbolism in every gesture, The Mutt — an adaptation of Dostoevsky’s The...
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Shakespeare In The Park At The New Delacorte Theater: Love Is Gender Fluid
In a world where the rule is to make huge efforts to attain an “effortless, relaxed” look, the new...
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