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‘Pamplona’ at Goodman: Gray lion Hemingway contemplates life, mischance and...

Review: Ernest Hemingway was, in flesh and blood, a man’s man, the willful and danger-defiant sort we associate with the fantastical, celluloid John Wayne. He also shared a trait in common with many...

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‘Support Group for Men’ at Goodman: 4 guys, make it 5, couple of cops and a...

Review: The first flourish of Ellen Fairey’s play “Support Group for Men,” now on display at Goodman Theatre, works twofold narrative magic: It creates a deceptively rich context, and it’s just plain...

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‘Father Comes Home From Wars’ at Goodman: Adapting Homer (et al.) to epic of...

Review: Hero is strong young slave in the 1860s South who finds himself agonizing over an option: Accept his owner’s proposition to accompany him into the war against the Yankees, in exchange for his...

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‘An Enemy of the People’ at the Goodman: Idealism confronts the (deplorable)...

Review: When Henrik Ibsen completed his play “An Enemy of the People” in 1882, he couldn’t decide whether to declare his moralizing screed a  drama or a comedy. Indeed, in the mirror it holds up to...

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Wrapped in tradition or rapped in new beats, ‘Christmas Carol’ sparkles at...

Review: While Larry Yando’s indelible Ebeneezer Scrooge is once again delighting children and tapping into adult truths in Goodman Theatre’s indispensable staging of “A Christmas Carol” (★★★★), the Q...

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Theater as crucible: Two Arthur Miller classics bridge high peaks of Goodman,...

Review: If you have not yet seen both “A View from the Bridge” at Goodman Theatre and “The Crucible” at Steppenwolf Theatre – well, it’s Miller time. These are mesmerizing productions of two of Arthur...

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‘Ah, Wilderness!’ at Goodman: Young lovers, plotting a path through life’s...

Review: Fairly late in his career, Eugene O’Neill, that great purveyor of tragedy, penned a romantic comedy worthy of his darker plays. “Ah, Wilderness!” is that now-classic lark, and it once again...

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‘Objects in the Mirror’ at Goodman: Escaping calamity in Africa, surviving...

Review: Playwright Charles Smith’s “Objects in the Mirror” is a gritty, honest and provocatively open-ended story about coming of age. Mesmerizing, if no less exasperating, it is served with resonant...

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‘Uncle Vanya’ at Goodman: Seeking purpose, or a numbing refill when the glass...

Review: Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya,” an existential snapshot of lost souls at a signless crossroads, exemplifies theater as an ensemble endeavor. In Annie Baker’s modernized, razor-sharp adaptation of the...

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‘Christmas Carol’ rings out again at Goodman: Scrooge & Co. affirm spirit at...

Review: For his ninth season, Larry Yando plays the gnarled old man whose very name is now a synonym for miser, his "Bah! Humbug!" an all-purpose slapdown that distills the essence of a curmudgeonly...

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‘Pamplona’ at Goodman: Gray lion Hemingway contemplates life, mischance and...

Review: Ernest Hemingway was, in flesh and blood, a man’s man, the willful and danger-defiant sort we associate with the fantastical, celluloid John Wayne. He also shared a trait in common with many...

View Article

‘Support Group for Men’ at Goodman: 4 guys, make it 5, couple of cops and a...

Review: The first flourish of Ellen Fairey’s play “Support Group for Men,” now on display at Goodman Theatre, works twofold narrative magic: It creates a deceptively rich context, and it’s just plain...

View Article

‘Father Comes Home From Wars’ at Goodman: Adapting Homer (et al.) to epic of...

Review: Hero is strong young slave in the 1860s South who finds himself agonizing over an option: Accept his owner’s proposition to accompany him into the war against the Yankees, in exchange for his...

View Article


‘An Enemy of the People’ at the Goodman: Idealism confronts the (deplorable)...

Review: When Henrik Ibsen completed his play “An Enemy of the People” in 1882, he couldn’t decide whether to declare his moralizing screed a  drama or a comedy. Indeed, in the mirror it holds up to...

View Article

Wrapped in tradition or rapped in new beats, ‘Christmas Carol’ sparkles at...

Review: While Larry Yando’s indelible Ebeneezer Scrooge is once again delighting children and tapping into adult truths in Goodman Theatre’s indispensable staging of “A Christmas Carol” (★★★★), the Q...

View Article


Theater as crucible: Two Arthur Miller classics bridge high peaks of Goodman,...

Review: If you have not yet seen both “A View from the Bridge” at Goodman Theatre and “The Crucible” at Steppenwolf Theatre – well, it’s Miller time. These are mesmerizing productions of two of Arthur...

View Article

‘Ah, Wilderness!’ at Goodman: Young lovers, plotting a path through life’s...

Review: Fairly late in his career, Eugene O’Neill, that great purveyor of tragedy, penned a romantic comedy worthy of his darker plays. “Ah, Wilderness!” is that now-classic lark, and it once again...

View Article


‘Objects in the Mirror’ at Goodman: Escaping calamity in Africa, surviving...

Review: Playwright Charles Smith’s “Objects in the Mirror” is a gritty, honest and provocatively open-ended story about coming of age. Mesmerizing, if no less exasperating, it is served with resonant...

View Article

‘Uncle Vanya’ at Goodman: Seeking purpose, or a numbing refill when the glass...

Review: Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya,” an existential snapshot of lost souls at a signless crossroads, exemplifies theater as an ensemble endeavor. In Annie Baker’s modernized, razor-sharp adaptation of the...

View Article

‘Christmas Carol’ rings out again at Goodman: Scrooge & Co. affirm spirit at...

Review: For his ninth season, Larry Yando plays the gnarled old man whose very name is now a synonym for miser, his "Bah! Humbug!" an all-purpose slapdown that distills the essence of a curmudgeonly...

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