Performing Arts
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Theatergoers hike, bike as part of outdoor showsAug 21, 2008 11:00 pm - Frank Farrell has the kind of problem most theater founders dream of having - success. Eleven years ago, Farrell combined his two favorite activities: theater and nature...
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'Fake Lake' entertains and educatesAug 21, 2008 11:00 pm - Rarely has an artistic team expressed righteous indignation as disarmingly as playwright/actor Sharon Greene and director Halena Kays express it in the Neo-Futurists' en...
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Arts agendaAug 21, 2008 11:00 pm - • The Windy City Gay Chorus and Aria: Windy City Women's Ensemble has auditions the upcoming season between 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Aug. 25 and 27 at the Center on Halsted's H...
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Drury Lane's jazzy update of 'The Boys from Syracuse' is a hitAug 20, 2008 11:00 pm - Audiences laughing their heads off at Drury Lane Oak Brook's knockout production of "The Boys from Syracuse" really won't care how much tinkering has been done to the sh...
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Writers' Theatre reviving 'Nixon's Nixon'Aug 18, 2008 11:00 pm - Writers' Theatre revives its acclaimed production of "Nixon's Nixon," Russell Lees' imagined exchange between Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger on the night before the m...
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Critic's NotebookAug 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Here's a look at currently running plays recently reviewed by the Daily Herald. "Bleacher Bums," Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, 111 W. Campbell St., Arlington He...
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Bell rings up 'Comedy of Errors' at Drury LaneAug 13, 2008 11:00 pm - David Bell cannot get away from Shakespeare's "A Comedy of Errors," or the classic musical Rodgers and Hart made from it in the 1930s, "The Boys from Syracuse," now play...
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No victory for 'Election Day'Aug 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Like the savvy politician who knows he'll get more mileage serving up platitudes than examining complicated issues, playwright Josh Tobiessen sticks to the superficial i...
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Tension crashes intriguing 'Birthday Party'Aug 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Few critics hailed Harold Pinter's unsettling "The Birthday Party" when it premiered in London 50 years ago. An enigmatic, darkly comic and ambiguous drama concerning co...
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A tart take on 'Desdemona'Aug 10, 2008 11:00 pm - Just as an artful presentation can enliven a ho-hum entree, director Jaclyn Biskup's cheeky, burlesque-inspired approach spices up "Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchie...