36 stories by "Albert Williams"
On July 27, 1982, as editor of Chicago GayLife newspaper, I attended a meeting in Washington, D.C., between government health officials and a group of LGBTQ+ activists and leaders of organiz…
Amy Crider's entertaining and stimulating new play Wells and Welles, receiving its world premiere in a very well-acted non-Equity production by Lucid Theater at the City Lit Theater space in…
Hell in a Handbag Productions serves up a hefty helping of Christmas camp in this new episode of its "The Golden Girls: Lost Episodes" franchise, which purports to feature never-broadcast ep…
City Lit Theater's stage adaptation of Davis Grubb's 1953 novel has a dark, homespun, campfire-tale feel that suits the folksy tone of its suspenseful Southern Gothic narrative. The Night of…
"It's our time, breathe it in: / Worlds to change and worlds to win. / Our turn coming through, / Me and you, pal, / Me and you!" So proclaims "Our Time," the soaring choral finale of Stephe…
John Pielmeier's 1979 drama Agnes of God"whose title is a reference to "Agnus Dei," Latin for "Lamb of God""is an intriguing if somewhat murky mystery that asks both "whodunit" and "whydunit…
Idle Muse Theatre Company's The Last Queen of Camelot, scripted and directed by Idle Muse artistic director Evan M. Jackson, plays like an Arthurian fantasy graphic novel come to life. Jacks…
Every superhero saga needs a villain, and Mark Pracht's new play The Mark of Kane"an origin story for the comic-book character Batman"provides one in the figure of Bob Kane. In […]
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Invictus Theatre Company delivers a solid, sometimes stirring, and strikingly relevant rendition of William Shakespeare's 1599 tragedy. It's the story of Marcus Brutus (played by Invictus ar…
Director Dusty Brown, who makes their Chicago directing debut with Three Crows Theatre's storefront staging of Shakespeare's Macbeth, has trimmed the tragedy down to a fast-paced, intermissi…
"Extraordinary," muses Amanda, the heroine of Noël Coward's Private Lives, "how potent cheap music is." Her rueful observation, uttered while she is standing on the terrace of a hotel whe…
Idle Muse Theatre Company's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is good, dark Halloween-season entertainment, especially if you're a fan of the Hammer/Amicus/American International P…
"In a good play every speech should be as fully flavoured as a nut or apple," wrote Irish playwright John Millington Synge in the preface to his 1907 comedy The Playboy of the Western World.…
The central characters of Redtwist Theatre's current production are a conservative male government leader determined to impose his laws on everyone around him and a radical young woman passi…
It may be difficult to comprehend today just how shocking Edward Albee's drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was when it premiered in October 1962, the same week that the Cuban missile cri…
A cabaret homage to Garland and Minnelli lights up the Greenhouse.
This cabaret by singer-actors Nancy Hays and Alexa Castelvecchi pays homage to two of the grea…
The action in Mart Crowley's landmark gay play surrounds the audience at Windy City Playhouse.
The Boys in the Band is a groundbreaking work in American theater …
Douglas Turner Ward's classic one-act kicks off their 20th season.
Derrick Sanders and Reginald Nelson arrived in Chicago in 1999 with a singular goal: to start …
A young boy and his reclusive aunt face down old ghosts during World War II
One might have thought that a ten-year-old show with libretto by Kyle Jarrow (author …
Current events have caught up with this solo play about refugee children.
Actor Tandy Cronyn, whose one-woman show The Tall Boy plays at Stage 773 for a limited …
Dennis ZaÄek's solid staging lets Samuel Beckett's existential comedy be.
Written in the wake of World War II, with its carnage and cruelty committed by all s…
A great star turn can't quite overcome the limitations of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1993 musical.
In a city whose theater scene is rooted in an "ensemble" aesthetic,…
Terry McCabe's adaptation for City Lit is minimalist but effective.
Arthur Conan Doyle's 1902 thriller is one of those classics most people are more familiar wit…
A 46-year-old play contains contemporary resonance in AstonRep's staging.
A haunted and haunting lead performance by the excellent Sean William Kelly drives Asto…
About Face Youth Theatre turns 20 with this contemporary look at LGBTQ history.
About Face Youth Theatre's company-created work explores the lives of LGBTQ young…
