Reviews
Invictus Theatre Company: The Winter’s Tale Review
Invictus Theatre Company presents The Winter’s Tale now through April 20, 2025. The cast delivers on the provocative emotions from jealousy, to repentance, to love to tell this emotionally turbulent Shakespearean classic.
Theo Ubique: Tell Me On A Sunday Review
Theo Ubique presents Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tell Me On A Sunday now through April 20, 2025. A 75 minute, sung through musical that follows one woman’s romantic journey and dating terrible men from NY to LA while finding herself along the way.
Citadel Theatre: I And You REVIEW
Citadel Theatre presents I And You now through March 23, 2025. Two teenagers, one a homebound and chronically ill and the other a star student and athlete, form an unexpected relationship bonding over a Walt Whitman lit project that develops into something greater.
The Artistic Home: Hedda Gabler Review
The Artistic Home presents Hedda Gabler extended through March 30, 2025. The actors develop their characters’ strong personality quirks that are highlighted when they interact with each other in this fairly traditional rendition of Ibsen’s classic.
Goodman Theatre: Betrayal Review
Goodman Theatre presents Harold Pinter’s Betrayal now through March 30, 2025. Working backwards from the end of an affair, we watch the relationship between married couple Robert and Emma and Robert’s best friend and Emma’s lover, Jerry evolve and devolve.
Shattered Globe Theatre: Lobby Hero Review
Shattered Globe Theatre presents Lobby Hero now through March 8, 2025. When a rudderless security guard is caught in the middle of a police investigation and conflicting morals, he must decide what he stands for and which path to follow.
Open Space Arts: Mr. Parker Review
Open Space Arts presents Mr. Parker now through March 2, 2025. We follow a middle-aged man’s journey as he deals with his new relationship with a younger man while trying to work with his sister-in-law to remember his late husband.
City Lit Theater: Glassheart Review
City Lit Theater Company presents Glassheart now through February 23, 2025. A modern retelling of Beauty and The Beast has us grounded in the original story, but this version expands it to look deeper and differently.
Goodman Theatre: Fat Ham Review
Goodman Theatre presents Fat Ham extended through March 9, 2025. In this adaptation of Hamlet, we’re taken to a family’s backyard barbeque wedding reception where we get this modern retelling exploring being Black, queer, and your community around you.
Porchlight Music Theatre: Fun Home Review
Porchlight Music Theatre presents Fun Home now through March 2, 2025. While writing and drawing her graphic novel of the same name, current day Alison explores the past with her past selves to try and find any reason or resolution behind her father’s death.
Jackalope Theatre Company: The Smuggler Review
Jackalope Theatre Company presents The Smuggler for a limited run now through January 25, 2025. In this one man show, we’re taken on this Irishman’s journey as he battles his internal conflicts and a giant rat to provide for his family.
Chicago Shakespeare Theatre: JaJa’s African Hair Braiding Review
Chicago Shakespeare Presents Jaja’s African Hair Braiding now through February 2, 2025. Sit down and make yourself comfortable in your seats because we’re in for a long day at Jaja’s African Hair Braiding salon in Harlem, New York City. The cast brings the different personalities of the women who work in the shop to life and give us a snapshot of what it looks like to work there.
Redtwist Theatre: The Totality Of All Things Review
Redtwist Theatre presents their world premiere of The Totality of All Things now through January 19, 2024. When an anti-gay hate crime rocks waves through a small town high school, a journalism teacher who prides herself on integrity finds herself being swallowed by a sea of red.
Edge Of The Wood Theatre: The Language Archives Review
Edge of the Wood Theatre presents The Language Archives. After a marriage abruptly ends, it sends this couple on their own growth journeys, expanding their own relationships with others along the way.
Theo Ubique: The Secret Garden Review
Theo Ubique presents The Secret Garden. Set in their cabaret space, we feel like we’re right in the Cravin’s gloomy house as spectral ensemble members float in and out to aid in our living characters’ need to grow and flourish like a new garden.
Steppenwolf Theatre: Leroy and Lucy Review
Steppenwolf Theatre presents the world premiere of Leroy and Lucy. Meeting at a crossroads in Mississippi, these two strangers bond over music and as they circle each other, they then dive deep into what it means to live forever.