Category: Chicago Reviews

Photo by Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade I’ve taught Romeo and Juliet many times, and every time was a journey of discovery with […]

Photo by Michael Brosilow Hair, the 1967 hippie celebration of drugs, sex, and rock and roll by Gerome Ragni, James Rado, and […]

Photo by Joe Mazza  The Raven’s a capella Octet, now on an extended summer run in the Goodman’s Owen Theater, is an […]

Photo Caption: Hedwig (Kyle Reid Hass) performs with her band, The Angry Inch, and backup singer, Yitzhak (Sage Reid Priest). The Greek […]

Photo credit: Joan Marcus “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal,” For 144 years, those famous […]

My husband Dirk was from Baraboo, WI, the longtime winter home of the Ringling Brothers Circus and the home of Circus World. […]

Photo credit: Justin Barbin It is cliché at this point to say that Stephen Sondheim was a genius. But as the first […]

In 1989, the theatre department at Southwest Missouri State University (now Missouri State University) staged Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart, a play […]

Photo by Michael Brosilow Steppenwolf has been known since its inception as an actors’ theatre, even in its first years performing at […]

Ian Barford and Joey Slotnick in Leopoldstadt. Photo by Hugo Hentoff. Terms like “best” and “most important” are the province of post-third-cocktail […]