The blind date actually took place on November 19, 1985, in Geneva. Nothing much happened diplomatically; the world order wasn’t…
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As if to prove you can out-Ibsen Ibsen, playwright Brett Neveu has taken Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play, “An Enemy of…
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Charles Newell’s production of Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons” at Court Theatre is an emotionally wrenching tragedy. Secrets and lies…
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Steppenwolf Theatre’s world premiere of The Minutes by Tracy Letts takes place during a small town city council meeting. It’s…
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Trap Door Theatre is staging an expressionistic, phantasmagorical tale of eastern European drama. Their new production, “Occidental Express,” by Romanian-born…
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“Ah, Wilderness!”, Eugene O’Neill’s only comedy, is a charming, light-hearted play with an element foreign to most O’Neill scripts: a…
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Playwright Lauren Yee calls her play “Hookman” an “existential slasher comedy.” And Steep Theatre’s new production takes her up on…
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“Not About Nightingales,” an early Tennessee Williams script, is a Depression-era tragedy with many elements that foretell Williams’ genius as…
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“Linda Vista,” in its world premiere at Steppenwolf Theatre, is a smart and thoroughly entertaining production—a very adult comedy—funny, sexy…
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Have you ever worked in an office—creative or otherwise—where a bunch of young associates groused over their bosses, gossiped about…
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Remy Bumppo Theatre’s new production of George Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion” is a sparkling, proto-feminist version of the classic 1912 script….
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