Let’s Talk About Critics
Hedy Weiss, a theater critic from the Chicago Sun-Times, caused an uproar when, in a review for Steppenwolf Theatre’s production of Pass Over by Antoinette Nwandu, she wrote the following: […]
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The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
REVIEW: Luna Loba VIII Moon of Floods: Part 2
Luna Loba VIII is, “Performance art, sound, body/voice, video. Female + gender neutral artists exploring home, water, flood, cleansing, destruction, the act of building, deluge, flow, connectedness, generosity, roots, force, […]
Wilbury’s Church: Drinking the Kool-Aid
The goal of a 12-step program is not to get you to climb up high enough to jump and kill yourself, but playwright Young Jean Lee seems to employ that […]
A Conversation About Church
[See “Wilbury’s Church: Drinking the Kool-Aid” for our review.] Motif writer Kevin Broccoli talks with Brien Lang and Phoenyx Williams — the director and the lead actor of Young Jean Lee’s […]
Revue Year’s Eve at AS220
It’s New Year’s Eve. The holidays are over. You’ve seen all of your family, you’re fat with love/comfort food and now it’s time to celebrate 2018 with friends. You want […]
Steve Kidd Shines in Hilarious Santaland Diaries
The Gamm Theatre is providing a burst of holiday cheer with its presentation of The Santaland Diaries, a hilarious tour de force for Steve Kidd. The show, adapted by […]
Gabriel: Men Being Men and Women Being Men
Men telling women what women want in defiance of their own expressed wishes is a long tradition, eerily echoed in a recent (2003) controversy over whether to dig up and […]
Letter to the Editor: The Slave at Mixed Magic
In regard to your recent review of The Slave, I had to read it more than a few times to be sure I understood this critic’s detailed negativity toward the production […]
Working Girls Juggle Romance and Work in Barker’s “Romantic”
Playwright Wendy Wasserstein explores the internal struggles faced by a pair of young working women in Isn’t It Romantic, a bittersweet comedy/drama being performed by The Players at Barker […]
Glad Tidings at Arctic
Charles Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol is an irresistible parable about redemption. The miserly Ebenezer Scrooge refuses to partake in the spirit of the holiday and seems destined to live […]