Catey Sullivan | For the Sun-Times
There’s potential in the work, no question. But as is, the production provides flashes of insight and drama rather than really digging into the bleak, essential history it illuminates.
Featuring ensemble members Michael Shannon, Lawrence Grimm and Travis A. Knight, “Turret” will startle your eyes and bend your brain.
‘Seinfeld’ alum Jason Alexander channels George Costanza in Rob Ulin’s world premiere comedy at Chicago Shakespeare.
Actor Harry Lennix wears August Wilson’s persona with ease and grace. As he weaves together anecdotes from the playwright’s eventful life, the audience gets a direct look at the power within the man behind the pen.
Director/choreographer Dan Knechtges pushes the show to the outermost boundaries of broad comedy.
Nate Burger and Erik Hellman have a chemistry that crackles in Charles Newell’s staging, which plays up the meta-theatrics of Tom Stoppard’s absurdist take on Shakespeare.
The atmosphere is part after-hours St. Patrick’s Day celebration, part frat party, and — once the music starts — part cover-band concert.
Artistic director Susan V. Booth shapes a production of furious impact and impeccable ensemble work from the all-female, 13-strong cast.
Three women share the laughter and tears that come with surviving seven decades of all that life can dish out in Aurora Real de Asua’s drama.