Albert Williams
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A 'fully flavoured' Playboy
The classic 20th-century Irish comedy The Playboy of the Western World comes to rich life at City Lit Theater. → Read More
An Antigone for our times
A contemporary translation of the Sophoclean tragedy reflects our own troubled times. → Read More
Living room absurdism
Edward Albee's portrait of a toxic relationship embodies the marriage of domestic drama and absurdist dread. → Read More
Remember that time Isaac Newton stuck a needle in his eye?
Lucas Hnath's brainy comedy about Isaac Newton and scientific competition gets a stellar production from Redtwist. → Read More
City Lit stages the OG of Westerns
The novel that created many of the tropes in the Westerns genre hits the stage in a new adaptation. → Read More
A 21st-century Oklahoma!
Director Daniel Fish’s controversial 2019 Broadway revival of the classic musical Oklahoma! has come to Chicago for a two-week run at the CIBC Theatre. I don’t know how Fish’s innovative rethinking of the work (first developed at Bard College’s Fisher Center in 2015, and then produced off-Broadway at St. Ann’s Warehouse in 2018 prior to […] → Read More
These girls are still golden
Hell in a Handbag's Golden Girls parody sexes it up at the Leather Archives & Museum. → Read More
The Things I Could Never Tell Steven is a musical portrait of an enigma
After a year-and-a-half shutdown, the storefront theater formerly known as Pride Films and Plays is back open for business in Buena Park. Returning to live performance, the LGBT-focused company now called PrideArts has not only a new name but a new artistic director, a reconfigured black-box space with new seats and upgraded air-conditioning, and a […] → Read More
Congo Square celebrates its roots with the satirical Day of Absence
Douglas Turner Ward's classic one-act kicks off their 20th season. → Read More
Whisper House makes its spooky and intimate Chicago debut
A young boy and his reclusive aunt face down old ghosts during World War II → Read More
20/20 celebrates being young, gifted, and queer
About Face Youth Theatre turns 20 with this contemporary look at LGBTQ history. → Read More
Redtwist’s King Lear creates a tempest-torn world in an intimate setting
Steve Scott's bare-bones production is storefront Shakespeare at its best. → Read More
The frothy fantasy Flower of Hawaii blooms again
Folks Operetta revives a lost hit from pre-World War II Berlin. → Read More
The new farce Prophet$ looks back on the good old days of corrupt televangelists
It's firmly rooted in the 80s, in more ways than one. → Read More
Essential plays for Pride Month
Lanford Wilson's 1964 one-act The Madness of Lady Bright, a dynamic character study of an aging drag queen, is frequently cited as America's first "gay play." It premiered at Caffe Cino, an off-off-Broadway coffeehouse theater in New York's Greenwich Village that also nurtured the work of emerging gay playwrights Robert Patrick, Tom Eyen, Jean-Claude van Itallie, and William M. Hoffman. Mart… → Read More
Take Me is undermined by its own whimsy
Guilt and grief lead a woman to imagine she's been contacted by aliens. → Read More
City Lit presents not one, but Two Days in Court
The Devil and Daniel Webster and Trial by Jury make up the musical doubleheader. → Read More
A search for a missing gay teen reveals The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey
Joe Foust deftly portrays the detective and all the parties in the investigation. → Read More
ShawChicago goes out the way it came in, with The Doctor's Dilemma
The company ends its run with the same play with which it first debuted in 1994. → Read More
Doubt: A Parable explores the Catholic Church at a crisis point
The 2004 Pulitzer-winner is relevant once again. → Read More