Closing Tomorrow on May 28, 2010
Lookingglass Theatre’s Hephaestus: Pretty Damn Cool on May 27, 2010
Closing This Weekend on May 18, 2010
Curse Of The Starving Class At New Leaf: Melodrama At Its Best on May 14, 2010
Theatre Community Mourns Loss Of Local Actor on May 13, 2010
Theatre Awards Week! on May 6, 2010
The Hypocrites’ Cabaret Leaves Us Feeling Conflicted on May 4, 2010
Chicago dell’Arte’s The Literati Learns Us Some Books on April 27, 2010
Now And Soon: Broadway In Chicago on April 22, 2010
Endgame At Steppenwolf Is Beckett Done Right on April 20, 2010
Last Minute Plans: Closing This Weekend on April 17, 2010
Sideshow Theatre’s Medea With Child: Adaptation Isn’t The Best Form Of Flattery on April 13, 2010
SEE THIS: The Cabinet at Redmoon Central on April 9, 2010
SEE THIS NOW: Court Theatre’s The Illusion on April 8, 2010
Closing This Weekend on March 31, 2010
If You Don’t Have Fun At Factory Theater’s Hey! Dancin!, You Might Be Dead on March 30, 2010
Tomorrow: World Theatre Day 2010! on March 26, 2010
Theo Ubique’s Chess: Do It For The Music on March 24, 2010
Garage Repertory At Steppenwolf: Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad on March 22, 2010
New Musicals: Good, Bad, and Anna Nicole on March 19, 2010
Liza + Audra + Patti = DIVA INVASION! on March 19, 2010
Closing Soon: Have You Seen These Shows? on March 18, 2010
Backstage Theatre Company’s Orange Flower Water Is Good - We Want Great on March 11, 2010
Closing Soon: More Shows We Haven’t Seen Yet on March 5, 2010
Next Week’s Extended Plans: Building Stage’s The Ring Cycle on March 4, 2010
Lifeline Theatre’s Mrs. Caliban Gives Us The Heebie Jeebies on February 24, 2010
House Theatre’s Wilson Wants It All Predicts The Future on February 23, 2010
Closing Soon: Shows We Haven’t Seen Yet on February 19, 2010
The Neo-Futurists’ I Am A Camera Is Neo-Futuristic on February 17, 2010
Remy Bumppo’s The Island: Crisply Acted But Uneven on February 15, 2010
SUPER MEGA SEE THIS: The Brother/Sister Plays on February 11, 2010
Goodman Theatre’s Double-Bill Hughie and Krapp’s Last Tape: Two Sides Of The Same Lonely on February 4, 2010
Steep Theatre’s Harper Regan: Formerly Sold-Out, Recently Extended, Consistently Great on February 1, 2010
Last-Minute Plans: RhinoFest on January 29, 2010
T.U.T.A.’s The Wedding, or “How Not To Throw A Party” on January 27, 2010
Theatre For A Good Cause on January 22, 2010
Two Tiny Theatre Groups Score Big Cash on January 20, 2010
Chicago Sketchfest 2010: Sketchtastic on January 16, 2010
More Chi-Town Theatre Moving To New York on January 8, 2010
Theatre Dispatch From New York, Chicagoist Style on January 6, 2010
The Addams Family: Not Creepy, Kooky, Mysterious or Spooky on December 21, 2009
Goodman’s A Christmas Carol Warms Our Icy Hearts on December 18, 2009
Closing This Weekend: House’s All The Fame Of Lofty Deeds And… on December 16, 2009
Second City Tops Off Anniversary Celebration With 24-Hours Of Sleep Deprivation on December 11, 2009
Goodman Hosts Memorial For Late Designer on December 8, 2009
How To Disappear Completely And Never Be Found: Not Quite What It Sounds Like on December 4, 2009
So Many Holiday Shows, So Little Time on December 3, 2009
Strangely Cast Christmas Carol Cancels on November 25, 2009
Goodman’s High Holidays: There’s Probably A Decent Play In There Somewhere… on November 24, 2009
Next Theatre’s End Days Is A (Slightly Saccharine) Good Time on November 13, 2009
Last Second Plans: River North Chicago Dance Company on November 7, 2009
More Halloween Shows Than You Can Shake A Stick At on October 30, 2009
The Hypocrites’ Frankenstein Is Frankensteinian on October 28, 2009
Lately In Strange And / Or Unsettling Theatrical Choices on October 23, 2009
2008-2009 Jeff Awards: The List on October 21, 2009
Redtwist’s Lettice and Lovage Is Cute. Just…Cute. on October 16, 2009
ATC’s Yeast Nation Grows On Us, Chicago on October 13, 2009
Free Theater! Lots of it! on October 8, 2009
The Mercy Seat At Profiles: Why A Well-Done Play Really Pissed Me Off on October 5, 2009
SEE THIS: Animal Crackers At The Goodman Theatre on October 1, 2009
Victory Gardens’ Year Zero Has Its Strengths, But Doesn’t Connect on September 29, 2009
Steppenwolf’s Fake Is Entertaining, But Unfocused on September 25, 2009
Griffin’s The Hostage: Sometimes Indecipherable But Always A Good Time on September 24, 2009
Theatre News Roundup on September 18, 2009
Sexo Y Violencia! Lucha VaVOOM! (Friday Night Only!) on September 16, 2009
Interview: Redmoon Theater Collaborator Alex Balestrieri on September 4, 2009
See This: Caffeine Theatre’s Under Milk Wood on September 3, 2009
Last Minute Plans: TMLMTBGB! On A Thursday! on August 27, 2009
City Chase 2009: Were You There? on August 26, 2009
The Ruckus Theater Makes Promising Chicago Debut With “Heist Play” on August 22, 2009
Tonight/Tomorrow Only: FREE French Spectacular Awesomeness IN THE LAKE on August 21, 2009
Skip This: Sideshow Theater Company’s Ekphrasis on August 19, 2009
This Weekend Only: Abbie Hoffman Died For Our Sins Theatre Festival on August 14, 2009
Strong Performances Tempered By A Problematic Script on August 14, 2009
More Drama Offstage Than On At Theatre Building Chicago on August 11, 2009
Illinois Arts Council Gets Shafted In 2010 Budget on August 7, 2009
Lolla Alternative: Steppenwolf’s First Look Closes Sunday on August 5, 2009
Collaboraction & Teatro Vista’s El Grito Del Bronx Lacks … Something on July 22, 2009
Human Fireflies: Coming Soon To A Street Near You on July 18, 2009
Last Minute Plans: Radio Plays! In Person! on July 16, 2009
One Night Only: Idiot’s Guide To Dating at Gorilla Tango on July 10, 2009
This Weekend Only: Jacques Brel at Theater On The Lake on July 8, 2009
Last-Minute Plans: Led Zeppelin Ballet on June 18, 2009
Pavement Group’s fracture/mechanics Doesn’t Coalesce Enough To Fracture on June 16, 2009
Giant Obama Chillin’ In Grant Park For The Weekend on June 12, 2009
Mud People At Mary-Arrchie Places A Tall Order, Comes Up Short on June 12, 2009
Evita Cleans Up At Non-Equity Jeffs on June 9, 2009
See This: Love Person at Victory Gardens on June 1, 2009
See This: Shattered Globe’s Buried Child on May 28, 2009
Rivendell’s The Walls Constrained By Convention on May 21, 2009
Theatre News Overload! on May 15, 2009
Pumpgirl: It’s Not You, It’s Us on May 14, 2009
FREE Last Minute Plans: Michael Frayn’s “Democracy” at TimeLine Theatre Company on May 12, 2009
See This: Red Noses at Strawdog Theatre Company on May 7, 2009
Last Minute Plans: The Trenchberg Incident (And Ice Cream!) on May 6, 2009
Get To Oz Before Andrew Lloyd Webber Does on May 1, 2009
See This: The Overwhelming at Next Theatre Company on April 29, 2009
Sketchbook 2009: Festival of Awesome on April 24, 2009
Theatre Nerd Alert: Broadway in Chicago Launches iPhone App on April 23, 2009
The Long Count at New Leaf: An Experiment Gone … Okay on April 20, 2009
See This: God’s Ear from Dog & Pony Theatre Company on April 14, 2009
Arrests Made At Pillow Fight Day on April 7, 2009
Skip These: City Lit’s ‘Private Lives’ and ‘Old Times’ on April 6, 2009
A Rather Anti-Climatic Account Of World Pillow Fight Day on April 6, 2009
House Theatre Extends Last Show Of The Season on April 2, 2009
One Week Only: Alvin Ailey at The Auditorium Theatre on March 30, 2009
See This: Eclipse Theatre Company’s Blue Surge on March 26, 2009
And Now For Something Completely Different on March 24, 2009
Three Weddings And A Funeral (But Wait, There’s More!) on March 20, 2009
Interview: New Leaf Theatre’s Jessica Hutchinson on World Theatre Day on March 17, 2009
More World Premiere Plays Than You Can Shake A Stick At on March 13, 2009
New Movie Musicals Range From Standards To WTF on March 10, 2009
Playwright and Screenwriter Horton Foote Has Died on March 4, 2009
Neo-Futurists Present 30 Plays In 60 Minutes, 1 Play In 5½ Hours on March 4, 2009
See This: House Theatre’s Rose and The Rime on March 2, 2009
About Face Faces The Future on February 27, 2009
Not Heard From Lately: Elderly Strippers on February 26, 2009