All episodes
Hipster Pirates
Is great acting enough?
A not-so-silent retreat
The premature death of a dream
Transitioning to new stories
Theater for a New Year: a busy January
Best of 2017
Circus for the spinning multi-tasker
If it's not tax-deductible, will theater donors still give?
Meaningless entertainment, on the other hand, is actually really hard
A lowbrow holiday in the theater
Wrestling with the 'ghosts of ideas'
A bearded man with a ukulele and a bird mask
An extended poetic metaphor
A fraught political journey
Technology or theater?
A prison story
Appropriated disaster
Arguing with God
The Chicago Greeks
Fall theater preview
A crisis in governance
Don't look behind this door
When the policy is more important than the dramaturgy
Making sense of an inscrutable world
Why the all-star game isn't much of a game
The beasts among us
Missing Dad
Sweet when it should be savory
The wrong kind of spectacle
A Long way to go
A romance with slippery time
A civic tragedy in 4 tweets
Getting lost in a playwright's mind
A lost classic
A House with a shaky foundation
Unfair expectations?
Why we need a good 'Block Party'
We are being watched as we do the watching
A theatrical bologna sandwich
Following your ears back to the beginning
Worse than a wall
Is it the art? Or the frame?
The politics of naked power
A young play
The Irresistible pull of memory
When style gets in the way
Why here? Why now?
A complicated history
An acrobatic whale tale
The politics of collaboration
What makes technique, technique?
A legacy of work: Gordon Davidson
Theater for the new year
It’s all about the audience
It's just Tuesday
A play from before . . .
Don't miss the experience of the forest (or the beauty of a single tree)
#specialNOTsafe
A dire, urgent warning
Getting lost in a Grimm Forest
Polling a Play's Heart
An ugly story told beautifully
"Who's the bad guy?
A culturally appropriate family
As close as possible to the elemental core
A classical dick joke
FOUR LARKS forges a path through the INDUSTRY'S WILDERNESS
Fall Theater Picks
The Equity Saga Continues
No Opposition
An Essential Black, and Blue, Comedy
Taming the Ramones
Lost Soles
A Soulful Trip to the Beach
An Uncertain Future
The Sole of Satire
That’s a Good Trick
A Play to Argue Over
The Revelation in Repetition
Not Quite Prepared for This Disaster
Shock, Awe, and...Jane Fonda?
Unrelenting Drama?
The Bodies Tell as Much of a Story as the Words
Taking Responsibility
Shakespeare's Black Man
Mark It
Our Problem Presents Itself
A Nourishing Question
A Canary in a Bigger Coal Mine
What We’ve Lost
Don't Even Ask Her about Dressing!
A Challenging Chorus
Why Politics Matter
A Verdict without an Indictment
A Backup on the Kościuszko
Whose Play Is It, Anyway?
Opening Weekend
The Fullness of Nothing
Dystopian Delight