2,003 stories by "Scotty Zacher"
Why Do You Always Wear Black? Based…
Nice Girl Written by Melissa Ross Raven Theatre, 6157 N. Clark (map…
Nevermore Book/Music/Lyrics by Jonathan Christenson at Edge …
Spike Lee's recent film Chiraq adapted Lysistrata to Chicago's South Side, replacing an epic Greek war with equally epic gang violence. The stakes in Lysistrata Jones? Basketball. More speci…
The Food Show Created by Dan Kerr-Hobert, Caitlin Stainken Metropolitan Brewing,…
Based on real events, Not About Nightingales is Tennessee Williams' gut-wrenching account of events at a Philadelphia prison in 1937 when prisoners mounted a hunger strike in hopes of bringi…
In making her persona the star of her world premiere drama King of the Yees, playwright Lauren Yee has created a meta-format to explore her relationship with her father. This genre-melding i…
The Comrades' Prelude to a Kiss is acted with resonance and skill, along with lots of laughs, and clever use of popular music along the way. Aptly directed by artistic director Derek Bertel…
In Saturday Night Live's parody of Chicago the Musical's "Roxie", Kellyanne Conway (played by Kate McKinnon) reveals the real reason she joined Donald Trump's campaign. Hilarious!
Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize when it first premiered in 1990, Cuban-American playwright MarÃa Irene Fornés's What of the Night? is an important, but rarely produced, work of unconventi…
See our picks below the fold Chicago's best theater of 2016 (in alphabe…
Another year, another 12 months of great theater! 2016 blessed the Windy City with inspired new works and riveting revivals from a wide range of companies " from the largest equity houses an…
Of all the plays Shakespeare wrote, The Winter's Tale is one of the most problematic. Directed by Declan Donnellan at Chicago Shakespeare, Cheek By Jowl's highly conceptual staging of the pl…
The Chicago theater community will again produce a wide array of holiday plays, musicals, ballets and comedies in 2016, all to put you in a festive mood. Find the entire list of holiday off…
"Annie" the musical is a lovely, glorious, filled-with-happiness evening. If the tour is coming to your city, be sure you don't miss out on this feel-good, family-friendly production. Highly…
Eugene Lee's *East Texas Hot Links* is a Brutal, lyrical play that immediately hits you on a visceral level. With a superb design and masterful direction, Writers Theatre has created a must…
With *Saturn Returns*, Tif Harrison and company present a thoughtful, comprehensive look at the major life changes of one's late twenties. If only the show weren't bogged down by superfluous…
Strong cast tell fascinating story of the first black actor to play Othello that contains strong parallels to today. Recommended. (read Duan Barnes' entire review....)
Check out Chicago theater's 2016 Equity Jeff Awards. Big winners include Chicago Shakespeare's *The Tempest*, Porchlight Music Theatre's *Dreamgirls*, Paramount Theatre's *West Side Story*,…
Now in its 48th Equity season, the Jeff Awards has been honoring outstanding theatre artists annually since it was established in 1968. The Jeff Awards Committee judged the opening nig…
The New Colony's world-premiere *Merge* makes a promising first impression as the audience is immediately transported into a 1970's arcade game, complete with neon tones, lights and the tell…
Windy City Playhouse's "Apartment 3A" by Jeff Daniels, directed by Ron OJ Parsons is an off-kilter romantic comedy with a touch of the surreal. Recommended! (read Duane Barnes' entire review…
Written and directed by female powerhouses Caitlin Parrish and Erica Weiss respectively, The Burials updates Sophocles' Antigone with strong grace and an even stronger anti-gun credo. Smart,…
With Playwright David Rabe's poetic world-premiere, Steppenwolf Theatre and director Anna D. Shapiro have created a thoughtful world-premiere with a stellar cast that explores end-of-life is…
Court Theatre's Man in the Ring, by Michael Cristofer, dances and spars at the intersection of violence and love, two things that are inextricably twined in Emile Griffith's world. It's a wo…
