We realize we’ve written a lot of “but” reviews lately. As in “it’s good, but…” Although it probably wouldn’t be very interesting to read, we really do wish we could tell you everything we see is good - we love theatre, and we want you to love theatre too. So we’re both relieved and slightly giddy to be able to say to you all: The Goodman Theatre’s Animal Crackers is damn good theatre. more ›

The Goodman Theatre’s winter event A GLOBAL EXPLORATION: Eugene O'Neill in the 21st Century wraps up this weekend with three performances of the nine-act Strange Interlude. Produced in association with the Neo-Futurists -- best known for the always entertaining and constantly changing ,Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind -- it is arguably the most rarely-revived of the six scripts in the Goodman’s O’Neill series. more ›

Sean Chercover definitely writes what he knows. In his debut novel, Big City, Bad Blood, Chercover takes us on a ride with private investigator Ray Dudgeon. Dudgeon is hired to protect a Hollywood patsy, Bob Loniski, who saw something he shouldn’t have and is now being hunted by the Chicago Outfit. Chercover himself was a private eye, and obviously a lover of Chicago, and his knowledge of both make for an enjoyable read. more ›

The Goodman Theatre is welcoming David Mamet back home, throwing a party to celebrate the native son, his prolific career and versatile success. Mamet’s best known as the writer of such honest, bruising work as Glengarry Glen Ross, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, and American Buffalo, where characters fight a soul-crushing world and deliver rapid-fire dialogue, spouting salty terms like f&*#^ng c#^>$*{(~#s. But the Pulitzer Prize winner has also written clever nostalgic s#’% like The Old... more ›

The Goodman Theatre is looking for "small, well-behaved" dogs for its upcoming production of Pericles, slated to run Jan. 3 through Feb. 12 of next year. If you've got a pup that fits the bill, the people at Goodman would like you get in touch with them. According to Goodman, an actor must be able to carry the dog in one scene and be led on a leash for another. more ›

The theater world lost a giant yesterday. Playwright August Wilson died of liver cancer in a hospital near his Seattle home, just a few weeks after publicly acknowledging his fatal diagnosis. Widely hailed as one of the greatest American playwrights of the 20th century, Wilson created rich, intimate, and unparalleled stage portraits of the African-American experience. more ›

The Goodman Theatre (that's r-e 'cause they're fancy) has announced their 2005-6 season. In the Albert will be the musical Purlie, based on the play Purlie Victorious by the late Ossie Davis; Shakespeare's Pericles directed by Mary Zimmerman; 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist The Clean House; and The Dreams of Sarah Breedlove, from Regina Taylor, the director of last year's sensation Crowns. In the Owen, it's Stephen Lang's one-man show Beyond Glory and Crumbs from the... more ›

No weekend is complete without some cross-dressing action. Fortunately for you, "I Am My Own Wife" has extended its run at The Goodman Theatre through February 20. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, playwright Doug Wright travelled to Berlin and met transvestite Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. Born in 1926, stage14x.html">Lothar Berfelde adopted the transvestite life during his teenage years, becoming Charlotte. Such "sexual deviants" were often killed by both Hitler's Gestapo and Communist dictatorship, but... more ›