American theatre audiences just love to be lectured about what terrible people they think they are. Or so I surmise, based on many decades of theatre-going and the responses I’ve observed to countless plays on […]
It wasn’t easy getting to the performance of jazz bassist Stephan Crump’s Rosetta Trio at the Constellation music venue in Chicago; I’d had a thorny array of challenges at work, traffic was atrocious, there was […]
Playwright of the Moment (and, perhaps, for a considerable duration after that) Lucas Hnath’s new play, Dana H., now in its world premiere at the Goodman Theatre, co-produced by Los Angeles’ Center Theatre Group, and […]
Once touted as the next Lennon and McCartney, Chris Difford (lyrics) and Glen Tilbrook (music) never came close to reaching those dizzying heights of pop music perfection, but as the leaders of the well-loved British […]
You might think that because E.M. Forster’s Howards End is one of the greatest novels of the 20th Century, and one with a beautifully and most satisfyingly structured plot, that it might be relatively easy […]
Come From Away, a Broadway in Chicago presentation directed by Christopher Ashley now in its Chicago premiere at Cadillac Palace Theatre, is a musical that’s perfectly suited for this period in American history. This is […]
Jez Butterworth’s The River, now at Chicago’s BoHo Theatre, is one of the most predetermined plays I have ever seen. By “predetermined,” I don’t mean predictable, exactly, but rather that, in retrospect, after all its […]
All things considered, American girls are fortunate to be growing up when and where they are, as cultural barometers such as the new production of American Girl Live, now in a Broadway in Chicago production […]
If you had to choose a single sound that evokes the now-faded rock era at its most visceral and thrilling, Robert Plant’s keening wail on any number of classic Led Zeppelin songs could hardly be […]
The Bridges of Madison County was a hugely best-selling romance novella by Robert Waller, rather sneeringly received in some critical quarters, an acclaimed film featuring Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep and a passel of classic jazz […]
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