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March 24, 2020March 24, 2020Chicago Reviews

“Methtacular” on video takes us on one addict’s harrowing…and humorous…journey

Review by Karen Topham, ChicagoOnstage, member American Theatre Critics Association. Note: This show, originally slated to be performed live at Theater Wit, […]

March 18, 2020March 18, 2020Chicago Reviews

Her Honor Jane Byrne, a fascinating play about Chicago politics and racism, falls victim to Coronavirus

Review by Karen Topham, ChicagoOnstage, member American Theatre Critics Association; photos by Liz Lauren. Note: This play has been canceled due to […]

March 5, 2020March 5, 2020Chicago Reviews

Real life, with all of its ups and downs, laughter and pain, is the subject of “Middletown” at the Apollo Theatre

Review by Karen Topham, ChicagoOnstage, member American Theatre Critics Association; photo by Edison Graff for GFour Productions. Like A.R. Gurney’s classic Love […]

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 […]

March 2, 2020March 3, 2020Chicago Reviews

“Here Lies Henry” is a playfully philosophical puzzle wrapped in an enigmatic character and structure

Review by Karen Topham, ChicagoOnstage, member American Theatre Critics Association, photo by Emily Schwartz. In an era in which the very nature […]

February 29, 2020Chicago Reviews

“Lipstick Lobotomy” at Trap Door is both funny and painful as it takes us into a mental institution in 1940 with Rosemary Kennedy

Review by Karen Topham, ChicagoOnstage, member American Theatre Critics Association, photo by Trap Door Theatre. Throughout the mid-to-late 20th Century, the Kennedys […]

February 27, 2020February 27, 2020Chicago Reviews

Writers Theatre’s “Stick Fly” explores the secrets of an upper-middle-class Black family

Review by Karen Topham, ChicagoOnstage, member American Theatre Critics Association, photo by Michael Brosilow. Lydia Diamond’s 2006 play Stick Fly is a […]

February 25, 2020February 25, 2020Chicago Reviews

A dog’s life looks pretty good in Pride Films and Plays’ funny and poignant “Dex & Abby”

Review by Karen Topham, ChicagoOnstage, member American Theatre Critics Association, photo by Heather Mall. Any pet owner will tell you about the […]

February 24, 2020February 24, 2020Chicago Reviews

Powerful and haunting “Mlima’s Tale” takes us deep into the worldwide ivory trade

Review by Karen Topham, ChicagoOnstage, member American Theatre Critics Association, photo by Michael Brosilow. Here is pretty much the summation of what […]

February 22, 2020February 23, 2020USAOnStage

USAOnstage NYC: Tú Amarás (You Shall Love)

Review by Edward Rubin, member of American Theatre Critics Association, NYC’s Drama Desk, and the Outer Critics Circle; photo by Matthew Murphy  […]

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