Performing Arts
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'Boneyard Prayer' arrestingApr 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Known for its bold, physical, highly theatrical events, Chicago's Redmoon Theatre always delivers arresting visuals. Most of them involve a combination of remarkable pup...
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Profiles gives LaBute drama no-holds-barred productionApr 03, 2008 11:00 pm - For the better part of two years, Profiles Theatre has devoted itself to Neil LaBute, a playwright who shares the company's affinity for the kind of bracing theater that...
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Theater newsApr 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Theater Oobleck remounts its production of "The Strangerer," Mickle Maher's satiric re-imagining of Albert Camus' absurdist tale. Maher re-sets it during the 2004 presid...
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Theater eventsApr 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Driving Daisy Alfred Uhry examines the unlikely, 25-year friendship between a tetchy, White Southern matron and her kindly Black chauffeur in "Driving Miss Daisy." Jill ...
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Ruhl rings it upApr 02, 2008 11:00 pm - Playwright Sarah Ruhl walked into the Steppenwolf Theatre lobby recently, saw the walls filled with photos of its ensemble members and it hit her. "Steppenwolf is actual...
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Cast energizes lively 'Drowsy Chaperone'Apr 02, 2008 11:00 pm - No bouncy overture heralds the opening of "The Drowsy Chaperone." No buoyant production number sets the story in motion. Instead from a darkened stage, a disembodied voi...
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New theater company director's second lifeMar 27, 2008 11:00 pm - Whoever said there are no second acts in American lives never met Ann Filmer, founder and artistic director of the recently formed Berwyn-based 16th Street Theater and d...
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Dog gimmick wears thin, but comedy still fetchingMar 27, 2008 11:00 pm - In "Sylvia," the female around whom A. R. Gurney's frisky romantic comedy revolves, says words most men would love to hear. "I think you're God," gushes Sylvia, enthusia...
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Williams' poetry makes 'Candles' blazeMar 27, 2008 11:00 pm - Imagine your luck if you "discovered" a lost Shakespeare play or found an ignored early novel by J.K. Rowling. Eclipse Theatre Co. has done something nearly as remarkabl...
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Gift's take on Judas has hard edges, but tender heartMar 27, 2008 11:00 pm - Gift Theatre's "The Last Days of Judas Iscariot" clocked in at 2 hours, 40 minutes. They were the speediest nearly 3 hours I've experienced in the theater in some time. ...