Reviews
Remy Bumppo: Wish You Were Here
Remy Bumppo presents Wish You Were Here now through October 19, 2025. Five Iranian women, each with their own dreams and goals, support each other even has time and circumstances cause them to drift apart in different ways.
Strawdog Theatre: The F*ck House
For two friends, growing up in the Chicago suburbs is tough enough with the promise of freedom just a train ride away. But in The F*ck House, we’re taken on a journey as they navigate jr. high and their changing friendship.
American Players Theatre: Tribes
Unpacking a chaotic, noisy family, Tribes takes us through the lives of a son born deaf into a family of hearing who then meets someone who introduces him to the deaf community. Packing in many plot points and subtopics, we see the different dynamics of this family and within the deaf community itself.
American Players Theatre: Anna In The Tropics
Set in hot and humid Florida, a Cuban family relishes in their traditions inside the family owned cigar factory. They each explore their individual relationships - with each other, with their partners, and outside their familial ties as well.
Invictus Theatre: Angels In America
Invictus Theatre Company presents Angels in America: Part One and Two now through September 7, 2025. Set in a decaying 1980s New York, we follow the lives of different gay men during the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Goodman Theatre: The Color Purple
Goodman Theatre presents The Color Purple now through August 3, 2025. Simply staged and focusing on the beautiful score and growth of these characters, Goodman’s production delivers an emotional performance that shows the depth of these characters.
Marriott Theatre: Titanic The Musical
Marriott Theatre presents Titanic The Musical now through June 1, 2025. Taking inspiration from real passengers and crew, the musical takes us through the full crossing of this ill fated ship bringing to life these people and giving us a glimpse into their experience.
Steppenwolf Theatre: The Book of Grace Review
Steppenwolf Theatre presents The Book of Grace, now through May 18, 2025. An estranged son and father reunite in a small, border town where their past slowly unfurls and something big simmers under the surface for the future.
Invictus Theatre Company: The Winter’s Tale Review
Invictus Theatre Company presents The Winter’s Tale now through April 20, 2025. The cast delivers on the provocative emotions from jealousy, to repentance, to love to tell this emotionally turbulent Shakespearean classic.
Theo Ubique: Tell Me On A Sunday Review
Theo Ubique presents Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tell Me On A Sunday now through April 20, 2025. A 75 minute, sung through musical that follows one woman’s romantic journey and dating terrible men from NY to LA while finding herself along the way.
Citadel Theatre: I And You REVIEW
Citadel Theatre presents I And You now through March 23, 2025. Two teenagers, one a homebound and chronically ill and the other a star student and athlete, form an unexpected relationship bonding over a Walt Whitman lit project that develops into something greater.
The Artistic Home: Hedda Gabler Review
The Artistic Home presents Hedda Gabler extended through March 30, 2025. The actors develop their characters’ strong personality quirks that are highlighted when they interact with each other in this fairly traditional rendition of Ibsen’s classic.
Goodman Theatre: Betrayal Review
Goodman Theatre presents Harold Pinter’s Betrayal now through March 30, 2025. Working backwards from the end of an affair, we watch the relationship between married couple Robert and Emma and Robert’s best friend and Emma’s lover, Jerry evolve and devolve.
Shattered Globe Theatre: Lobby Hero Review
Shattered Globe Theatre presents Lobby Hero now through March 8, 2025. When a rudderless security guard is caught in the middle of a police investigation and conflicting morals, he must decide what he stands for and which path to follow.
Open Space Arts: Mr. Parker Review
Open Space Arts presents Mr. Parker now through March 2, 2025. We follow a middle-aged man’s journey as he deals with his new relationship with a younger man while trying to work with his sister-in-law to remember his late husband.
City Lit Theater: Glassheart Review
City Lit Theater Company presents Glassheart now through February 23, 2025. A modern retelling of Beauty and The Beast has us grounded in the original story, but this version expands it to look deeper and differently.
Goodman Theatre: Fat Ham Review
Goodman Theatre presents Fat Ham extended through March 9, 2025. In this adaptation of Hamlet, we’re taken to a family’s backyard barbeque wedding reception where we get this modern retelling exploring being Black, queer, and your community around you.
Porchlight Music Theatre: Fun Home Review
Porchlight Music Theatre presents Fun Home now through March 2, 2025. While writing and drawing her graphic novel of the same name, current day Alison explores the past with her past selves to try and find any reason or resolution behind her father’s death.
Jackalope Theatre Company: The Smuggler Review
Jackalope Theatre Company presents The Smuggler for a limited run now through January 25, 2025. In this one man show, we’re taken on this Irishman’s journey as he battles his internal conflicts and a giant rat to provide for his family.