‘Smokefall’ at Goodman: Revisiting a family frayed at seams, blessed with...
Review: Mike Nussbaum, irrepressible at age 90, is like great Bordeaux wine. Need I amplify that? Chicago’s prince of perdurable actors is the single best reason – among many good ones – to catch...
View ArticleGoodman ‘Rapture, Blister, Burn’: Two women pause at crossroads, ponder life,...
Review: ★★★ The wisdom and the charm of Gina Gionfriddo’s play “Rapture, Blister, Burn,” at the Goodman Theatre, resounds in the collision of two fortysomething women, old friends from college, one a...
View Article‘Two Trains Running’ at Goodman: As tumult besets their world, diner denizens...
Review: We need a new word to describe the quality that makes every August Wilson play a red-letter event of any theater season. This single new descriptor would meld the two features that Wilson...
View ArticleRole Playing: A.C. Smith is ready undertaker, lord of diner world in ‘Two...
Interview: A.C. Smith, a big-framed actor formidably attired in black as a wealthy undertaker, is ensconced Buddha-like at the corner table of a diner in the Goodman Theatre production of August...
View Article‘Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike’: Lighting up Chekhov with laughter at...
Review: I hate going here, I really do, because it’s going to sound like home cooking, but the hysterical truth is – and everything about this is hysterical – that the Goodman Theatre romp through...
View ArticleTheater 2015-16: ‘Disgraced,’ 4 world premieres accent a many-splendored...
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View ArticleAt Goodman’s New Stages Festival, playwrights count on sharpening assist from...
Feature: Three formative plays on the boards in Goodman Theatre’s New Stages Festival offer an intriguing glimpse into the process of turning a work of promise into a well-honed piece of stagecraft...
View ArticleTheaters serve up holiday stew of 3 Scrooges filled with laughs, lessons,...
Review: Chicago’s holiday offerings include Three Scrooges — not a show, but a trio of shows all based on “A Christmas Carol.” And yes, there’s some slapstick in it, even ribaldry, depending on which...
View Article‘2666’ at Goodman: Epic saga of lust, murder and other scholarly pursuits in...
Review: After five and a half hours spent watching the dramatic evolution of “2666,” the adaptation by Robert Falls and Seth Bockley of Roberto Bolaño’s sprawling novel at the Goodman Theatre, I could...
View Article‘The Matchmaker’ at Goodman: A (very) funny thing happens when sly widow...
Review: It’s Dolly’s world, the charming milieu and crazy circumstances of Thornton Wilder’s perdurable farce “The Matchmaker.” All the other characters on stage just live in it. So say hello to a...
View ArticleAt the Goodman Theatre, Leonard Bernstein’s musical ‘Wonderful Town’ starts...
2016-17 SEASON PREVIEW: The following is adapted from a news release submitted by an arts organization to Chicago On the Aisle. —— Lauren Molina and Bri Sudia star as two sisters leaving Ohio in 1935...
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...
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‘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‘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 ArticleTheater 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 ArticleAt Goodman’s New Stages Festival, playwrights count on sharpening assist from...
Feature: Three formative plays on the boards in Goodman Theatre’s New Stages Festival offer an intriguing glimpse into the process of turning a work of promise into a well-honed piece of stagecraft...
View ArticleTheaters serve up holiday stew of 3 Scrooges filled with laughs, lessons,...
Review: Chicago’s holiday offerings include Three Scrooges — not a show, but a trio of shows all based on “A Christmas Carol.” And yes, there’s some slapstick in it, even ribaldry, depending on which...
View Article‘2666’ at Goodman: Epic saga of lust, murder and other scholarly pursuits in...
Review: After five and a half hours spent watching the dramatic evolution of “2666,” the adaptation by Robert Falls and Seth Bockley of Roberto Bolaño’s sprawling novel at the Goodman Theatre, I could...
View Article‘The Matchmaker’ at Goodman: A (very) funny thing happens when sly widow...
Review: It’s Dolly’s world, the charming milieu and crazy circumstances of Thornton Wilder’s perdurable farce “The Matchmaker.” All the other characters on stage just live in it. So say hello to a...
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