DEFCON 2 at City Lit: The tension rises in “Thirteen Days”
By Karen Topham; photo courtesy of City Lit Sometimes, stunt casting falls […]
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Post-Apocalyptic Entertainment Revolves Around The Simpsons in Theater Wit’s “Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play”
By Karen Topham, photo by Charles Osgood Move over, cockroaches. If we […]
Great performances can’t overcome a flawed structure in PrideArts’ Things I Could Never Tell Stephen
By Karen Topham; photo by Marisa KM You’d think a show about […]
Exuberant, impressive Mamma Mia! opens the year for Music Theater Works
By Karen Topham The first thing you notice upon entering the theatre […]
Goodman’s “School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play” reopens Chicago theatre with laughter and timely subtext
By Karen Topham, American Theatre Critics Association Not only is live theatre […]
“I Hate It Here” pretty much sums up 2020
By Karen Topham, American Theatre Critics Association; original art by Mary Williamson […]
After the wreck: Court Theatre revisits the Titanic via actual court testimony about the disaster
By Karen Topham, American Theatre Critics Association; photo by Michael Brosilow There […]
CST’s We Are Out There is a delightfully campy “prologue” of their upcoming 50s sci-fi musical
By Karen Topham, American Theatre Critics Association; photo by CST. Chicago Shakespeare […]
Live theatre returns (sort of) with Goodman’s “The Sound Inside,” an online-only treat
By Karen Topham, American Theatre Critics Association; photo by Cody Nieset Are […]
“Goods” takes us into space to see ourselves, our humanity, and our trash more clearly
By Karen Topham, American Theatre Critics Association The best science fiction is […]