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- Sep 29, 2026
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Review: Steppenwolf’s intense ‘Topdog/Underdog’ gives a layered look at a sibling rivalry (opens the original)
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There isn’t another American writer simultaneously as intuitively theatrical and intellectually evocative as Suzan-Lori Parks (“The Book of Grace,” “Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2, & 3)”), which means that her plays don’t seem to grow old. They simply take on new, more vibrant colors as they age, shifting with meaning in every new era. Please check your inbox for your confirmation. Sorry, there was an error registering your email. That’s certainly true of her most produced work, the
Review: “The Birth of the Pill” at TimeLine Theatre (opens the original)
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Chicago author Jonathan Eig’s non-fiction book, “The Birth of the Pill,” does not come across as an obvious candidate for theatrical adaptation. It’s filled with compelling details about the development of the revolutionary contraceptive and spreads its focus out over four characters who are importantly, but not always directly, involved in how the birth control pill came to be. The book lurches forward in fits and starts, as scientific progress often does. It allows the known significance of th
Review: Kokandy Productions’ ‘Sunday in the Park with George’ paints a vivid picture of Seurat and his masterpiece (opens the original)
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Director Derek Van Barham and Kokandy Productions stage another Stephen Sondheim masterwork — following their much-praised “Sweeney Todd” and “Into the Woods” — in the cramped basement space of the Chopin Theatre. This time, it’s a richly emotional, cleverly designed and musically vivid “Sunday in the Park with George,” about the creation of painter Georges Seurat’s “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,” the large neo-impressionist masterpiece that — so very lucky for us! — hangs
Review: ‘Sisters’ raises the question of what happens when we accept the notion AI is alive and sentient (opens the original)
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“Daddy says … My daddy says that you’re my sister.” This opening line from the intellectually and emotionally stirring play “Sisters,” now playing at Writers Theatre, is spoken by Matilda, just 6 years old as the work begins. Her sister — should that be in quotation marks? — is a computer. “My body looks like a computer,” explains Matilda’s sister Greta, whom we experience only as a voice (Chloe Johnston). “But that does not mean I am not alive.” Within a couple of minutes, playwright Matthew Li
Review: Touring production of ‘The Notebook’ is a reminder of the power of memory (opens the original)
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The musical version of “The Notebook” returns to Chicago, where it received its world premiere at Chicago Shakespeare in fall 2022, now in a post-Broadway national tour. I’m not quite sure whether the show has changed or I have — or more likely, a swirling combination of changes in time, cast, theater venue, expectations and more — but the show makes a different and less striking impression. Based on the bestselling, tear-jerking novel by Nicholas Sparks about a love story that begins in youth a
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