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March 28, 2023March 28, 2023Chicago Reviews

Promethean’s world premiere, “A Town Called Progress,” is interesting but needs work

I admit to being a fan of Promethean Theatre’s Cameron Feagin. Each time I see her in a play, no matter the […]

May 29, 2022June 17, 2022Chicago Reviews

Powerful, compelling Richard III deserves a bigger audience

Somehow, through all of my years as a play-goer, an English teacher, and a theatre critic, I had managed to miss out […]

March 3, 2020March 4, 2020Chicago Reviews

Promethean’s tightened “Mrs’ Warren’s Profession” remains true to Shaw

Review by Karen Topham, ChicagoOnstage, member American Theatre Critics Association, photo by Tom McGrath, TCMcG Photography. In all these years, I have […]

September 18, 2019September 18, 2019Chicago Reviews

Blue Stockings is a play about the past with lessons for the present

Review by Karen Topham, American Theatre Critics Association member; photo by Tom McGrath, TCMcG Photography. Sometimes a play is also a kind […]

May 9, 2019May 9, 2019Chicago Reviews

Mad Beat Hip and Gone explores the influence of the Beat poets

Review by Karen Topham, American Theatre Critics Association member; photo by Tom McGrath, TC McG Photography. There is still something utterly compelling […]

February 25, 2019February 25, 2019Chicago Reviews

“Gross Indecency” is all about the “love that dare not speak its name”

Review by Karen Topham, American Theatre Critics Association member; photo by Tom McGrath. In his introduction to the novel The Picture of […]

November 30, 2018November 30, 2018Chicago Reviews

“Et in Arcadia ego”: I, too, am in Arcadia

By Joe DeRosa, photo by Tom McGrath Where is Arcadia? Drifting back and forth between a brilliant modern mystery about the nature […]

July 29, 2018Chicago Reviews

Promethean Theatre’s “Bliss (or Emily Post Is Dead)” is funny and full of fate

Review by Karen Topham, American Theatre Critics Association member; photos by Tom McGrath What is the nature of Fate? Is it something […]

February 19, 2018February 19, 2018Chicago Reviews, Uncategorized

A Very Entertaining “Madwoman of Chaillot” Saves the World

Review by Karen Topham; photos by Jean Giraudoux’s The Madwoman of Chaillot is a satirical play from 1945 that seems to maintain its […]