Author: quinn
The House Theatre of Chicago Brings in the Holiday Season with “The Nutcracker”
How do we grieve? Do we cry, screaming into the lonely darkness where someone will no longer stand? Do we hide, shriveling into the shadows of our hurt? How do we heal hurt that cannot be undone?
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Lucky Plush Productions Makes “Better” Best with “The Better Half”
The Better Half – Lucky Plush
Lucky Plush Productions’ The Better Half is a mind-bending (and body-bending) metatheatrical deconstruction of domestic relationships. Born of adapting Gaslight, written by Patrick Hamilton, Scenes from a Marriage, written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, and other texts, this production supercharges the hope, hurt, trust and treason of romance with inspiring movement, choreographed with deft precision and narrative significance by Julia Rhoads.
Read MoreEclectic Full Contact Theatre’s “Dear Brutus” Bursting with Frantic Whimsy
Dear Brutus – Eclectic Theatre
Each and every day, we are confronted by the totality of choice. Some decisions are small: do I want steak for dinner or do I want chicken? Some choices are irrevocable: do I maintain my cozy office desk job or move across the country to pursue my passions with reckless abandon? The haunting spectre of the hypothetical — of choices made and not made — is a common trigger for sleepless nights. Thanks to Eclectic Full Contact Theatre, this anxiety-inducing quandary is no longer limited to late-night self-interrogations. Loosely based upon A Midsummer Night’s Dream, JM Barrie’s Dear Brutus confronts the inherent fallacy (and value) contained in longing for that which one cannot have: a second chance.
Read MoreTheatre at the Center’s “Ghost” Comes Off Life Support
Ghost – Theatre at the Center
For millennia humanity has contemplated what lies beyond the mortal coil; philosophers, poets, and holymen alike have argued and toiled with great ardor over the unknowable elusivity of the afterlife — and its spiritual ramifications upon the mortal plane. Theatre at the Center takes a shot at this gnawing existential dilemma with the critically divisive Ghost: the Musical.
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