October 4, 2022October 5, 2022Chicago Reviews Raven opens its 40th season with Noel Coward’s hilarious classic Private Lives No one can watch Noel Coward’s 1931 comedy classic Private Lives without absorbing at least some of the topsy-turvy sexual energy of […]
July 25, 2022October 16, 2026Chicago Reviews There’s a lot to love about The Playboy of the Western World There’s a lot to love about The Playboy of the Western World. Well, not the actual playboy. There’s not really all that […]
May 18, 2022May 18, 2022Chicago Reviews Amazing “Alice” at Lookingglass I’m not sure how it was even possible that I had never before seen Lookingglass Theatre’s stellar and inventive Lookingglass Alice, given […]
March 16, 2018Chicago Reviews Boho’s “Cyrano” is a Funny, Heartbreaking, Swashbuckling Love Story Told With Panache Review by Karen Topham, American Theatre Critics Association member; photos by Liz Lauren I always find it difficult to begin reviews of […]
February 18, 2018February 20, 2018Chicago Reviews Bethany Thomas’s Performance Makes a Compelling “Moon For the Misbegotten” Review by Karen Topham; photos by Michael Brosilow A Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O’Neill is often a problematic play to […]