Gjenganger Akvavit Theatre is pleased to present a “triptych” of plays by Norwegian luminary playwright Jon Fosse at Chicago’s DCASE Storefront Theater. The plays — A Summer’s Day, Autumn Dream, and Winter — are all Chicago/Midwest premieres and all are in[…]
Month: February 2013
Vigils opening @ The Gift Theatre
Vigils In a gently whimsical take on a heartbreaking scenario, a young widow keeps her deceased fireman husband’s soul in a box by her bed, but then has to make a tough choice when the[…]
Never the Bridesmaid opening @ Josephimum Academy
Never the Bridesmaid Maria and Anthony are twins who’ve been damaged by love. Widowed once and divorced twice, Maria longs for a relationship but feels the stigma of a “three-time loser.” Dumped by his fiance[…]
Sex, Death and Two Nights at the Opera
By Lori Dana We are incredibly lucky to have not one, but two world-class opera companies in the city of Chicago. With the recent demise of the New York City Opera, not even the home[…]
Rigoletto – Lyric Opera REVIEW
Lyric Opera of Chicago Rigoletto By Giuseppe Verdi By Lori Dana One of the greatest works by the composer many consider Italian opera’s finest, Verdi’s Rigoletto, has been “reimagined” many times by some of the[…]
The Fall of the House of Usher – Chicago Opera Theater REVIEW
Chicago Opera Theater The Fall of the House of Usher By Philip Glass By Lori Dana Indeed, Philip Glass’ score is the big star of The Fall of the House of Usher. As taut and[…]
Everything is Illuminated opening @ Next Theatre Company
Everything is Illuminated By Simon Block, Adapted from the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer Directed by Devon de Mayo With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man, Jonathan, sets out to find the[…]
Peyton Place opening @ City Lit Theater
Peyton Place Peyton Place, set in a small and seemingly respectable New England town, entwines the stories of three women coming to terms with their sexual identities in an environment of repression: the beautiful and[…]
The Fox on the Fairway – REVIEW
By J. Scott Hill When Theatre at the Center’s production of Ken Ludwig’s golf-themed farce The Fox on the Fairway came up on my schedule, I admittedly bristled. I would rather watch autopsy bloopers than[…]
The City and The City opening @ Lifeline Theatre
The City and The City Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad is assigned to a seemingly open-and-shut case: an American student found dead in the gutters of the city of Besźel. But soon[…]