185 stories by "Hugh Iglarsh"
Its message about the need to stand and fight against a rigged system is as relevant as ever. The work itself, though, has not aged well.
"This is one of the finest productions of a Brecht play I've seen in Chicago, or anywhere else for that matter."
The theme of budget-busting inflation is all too relevant right now in the United States. That said, it's no easy task updating and transposing Fo's almost fifty-year-old tale of the inside-…
Visually scintillating, musically varied and appealing, animated by the shamanic, shape-shifting energy of its griot/narrator, "AmericanMYTH: Crossroads" has a hell of a lot going for it: a …
Gwydion Theatre, a company making its local debut, has chosen its first Chicago play well and executed even better.
"The Nacirema Society" could have been an edifying experience for viewers, as well as an entertaining one. That road hasn't been taken, and the result is a comedy whose laughs lack deeper re…
More ominous and socially observant than a typical melodrama, Arthur Miller's "A View from the Bridge" is hard to categorize. It's its own thing"call it a classic American Millerdrama.
Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land""the Nobel Prize-winning writer's 1975 play, masterfully revived at Steppenwolf"is a rich and strange theater experience.
The personal good intentions and grandiose philosophizing offered here might distract us, but they won't do much to save us.
The play is a real-time portrayal of an audition, that lonely, scary ordeal for actors.
Eli is a TV writer who has become sick of writing fictional stories about fantasy heroes, and instead decides to speak only hard, personal truths designed to free himself and others from the…
The minimum-wage workplace as depicted in this world premiere drama is a nightmare of tedious toil, endless surveillance and absolute disrespect.
The five lead dancers skillfully meld precise, athletic movement"in a contemporary ballet mode"with expressive theatricality.
The plot concerns two couples"one lesbian, the other heterosexual"who wish to have a baby in a society where childbearing is treated as a highly regulated privilege, available only to litera…
There's nothing "nice" about "Threepenny," a no-holds-barred assault on every aspect of bourgeois existence, from religion to marriage and family to the military to law and order.
British writer Simon Stephens' 2015 two-hander references physicist Werner Heisenberg's 1927 discovery that it is impossible for an observer to precisely discern both the position and veloci…
In Nilo Cruz' Pulitzer Prize-winning 2003 play, cigars symbolize all kinds of things, from capitalist commodity to an older, slower lifestyle to religious burnt offering, like smoke through …
Joffrey Ballet's magnificent revival, an adaptation of Tolstoy's vast novel of illicit love among the nobility of Czarist Russia, captures the book's tragic, inexorable power.
A set of nine love-themed comic vignettes presented in time for Hallmark's and Fannie May's favorite holiday, Valentine's Day.
Harold Pinter's "The Birthday Party" suggests that what we think of as the habits of ordinary life are often a kind of smokescreen designed to block awareness of underlying arrangements and …
Four couples have gathered together for a weekend retreat designed to strengthen their marriages and reset their moral and spiritual compasses, under the soothing, cliché-laden guidance of …
Ray Cooney's 1987 British farce, offers unredeemed silliness of the slamming-door and double-take variety. More of a live-action cartoon than a play, it will appeal mainly to those who favor…
"Trouble" is a backstage work set during the rehearsal period for a new and controversial race-themed play, written by a white man, that's set to open on Broadway.
The show affords a fine introduction to what The Conspirators call "The Style," the group's robotically jerky, audience-facing, hyperbolic acting method that stirs together Chinese opera, Ge…
As depicted in "The Locusts," life in Vero Beach, Florida is so nasty and brutish that it almost seems a not-totally-bad thing that it's short, too, at least for the victims of the serial ki…
