“Operation Mincemeat” – Strictly Need-To-Know! PicksInSix® Review | Ed Tracy Over three decades ago, a prominent military historian had me enthralled in the telling of the British master plan ...

My review of "Black Girl From A White Suburb” at American Blues Theater for PicksInSix®.

Sterling Version of “Topdog/Underdog” at Steppenwolf! PicksInSix® Review | Guest Contributor | Ronald Keaton There is a great deal to admire about the fast-moving production of “Topdog/Underdog” at ...

‘Play On!’ Has Got That Swing! PicksInSix® Review | Guest Contributor | Perse Grammer “Play On!” at Chicago Shakespeare Theater doesn’t give anything away until the curtain rises. A dynamic ope...

‘Liliom’ - Striking, Surreal and Exceptionally Human! PicksInSix® Review | Guest Contributor | Kaitlyn Linsner The Joffrey Ballet opened its 2026-2027 season on Thursday night with a captivating and...

Smoldering Performances Bring ‘Kowalski’ To Life. PicksInSix® Review | Ed Tracy To get right to the point, the Chicago premiere of “Kowalski” that opened at the Lookingglass Theatre on Saturda...

‘The Front Page’ - A Grand Slam! PicksInSix® Review | Ed Tracy As if ripped from the headline of a major market daily, Northlight Theatre opened their sparkling new Evanston home on Friday nig...

What’s Changed In Three Decades? PicksInSix® Review | Guest Contributor | Perse Grammer “Black Girl From A White Suburb” immerses us in schools and theaters alike but starts in a living room. T...

Goodman’s “Attic” Is A Flipping Dazzler! PicksInSix® Review | Guest Contributor | Catey Sullivan I’ve seen hundreds of circus acts over the past 30ish years; everything from massive Las Vegas spec...

Culture War Erupts In “The Humanities” PicksInSix® Review | Guest Contributor | Ronald Keaton One of the most difficult things, I believe, for any dramatist to do is to look at an event in history a...

If Only There Was A Pill. PicksInSix® Review | Ed Tracy Inside TimeLine Theatre’s comfortable and cozy first floor bar and café on opening night of Jessica Huang’s fascinating and informative ...

Where The River Meets The Sea … PicksInSix® Gold Review | Ed Tracy It is startling to realize that twenty-five years have passed since a savage attack on America changed the world as we know it....

“Worst. Sleepover. Ever.” Is No Exaggeration! PicksInSix® Review | Guest Contributor | Perse Grammer To enter Theater Wit’s production of “Adolescent Salvation,” I have to push through the clot...

‘Sisters’ Story Has Bugs, Still Connects. PicksInSix® Review | Guest Contributor | Catey Sullivan Artificial Intelligence has been around for at least 70 years, but pop culture has been obsessed wit...

Living Room Drama: Peeping Tom Edition PicksInSix® Review | Guest Contributor | Perce Grammer From the moment we step into the Hoover-Leppen Theatre, the “Windows” world premiere—produced by Pr...

Love Notes: For Better Or Worse. PicksInSix® Review | Guest Contributor | Sarah Fiorello The musical “The Notebook” has returned to Chicago, ready to meet all new audiences and be reacquainted...

‘The Outsiders’—Sound and Fury to Spare! PicksInSix® Review | Guest Contributor | Catey Sullivan By the time I read it in 1972, S.E. Hinton’s 1967 novel “The Outsiders” was already a classic—the pla...

‘The Young Are At The Gates!’ PicksInSix® Review | Ed Tracy Political activism of any kind, especially the Suffragists Movement and the crusade for the right for women to vote, requires the ki...

‘Frankie and Johnny’: After The Lovin! PicksInSix® Review | Ed Tracy The Dunes Summer Theatre’s 75th Anniversary Season continues through July 12 with a fine production of Terrence McNally’s “...

‘WATER FOR ELEPHANTS’ IS TRUNKING AMAZING! PicksInSix® Review | Guest Contributor | Catey Sullivan Chicago’s Nederlander Theatre may well be the most thematically appropriate venue in the country fo...

Diabolically Clever “Catch” Turns On Dime PicksInSix® Review | Guest Contributor | Ronald Keaton What a challenging piece of theatre this is. Three actors play six different characters in Mia Ch...

‘BROKEBACK’ – There Is Never Enough Time. PicksInSix® Review | Ed Tracy The North American premiere of Ashley Robinson’s "Brokeback Mountain" now playing in Chicago Shakespeare Theater's Court...

“A Mesmerizing Master Class in Movement” PicksInSix® Review | Guest Contributor | Kaitlyn Linsner A powerful dance performance can pause time. Meaning, when dancers execute a riveting piece with ...

Dying For Laughs In Riotous “Clue” PicksInSix® Review | Ed Tracy What will strike you most at the top of the second national tour of “Clue” currently crisscrossing the country, is the massive ...

Dunes Lands with Comically Macabre ‘DEATHTRAP’ PicksInSix® Review | Ed Tracy The Dunes Summer Theatre, northwest Indiana’s longest-running summer theater program, kicked off the 75th season th...

‘TARGETED’: Conspiracy, Harassment and Human Obsession PicksInSix® Review | Guest Contributor | Ronald Keaton Well, it's both comic and intense. Profane and highly satirical in tone and in pres...

What Is The Price of Truth? PicksInSix® Gold Review | Ed Tracy Precisely timed at an inflexion point for the long-term stability of the performing arts in Chicago, TimeLine Theatre Company has...

“There Is Nothin’ Like A Dame!” PicksInSix® Review | Ed Tracy The first decade of the impressive creative collaboration of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II spawned “Oklahoma! (194...

“BORNE BACK CEASELESSLY INTO THE PAST” PicksInSix® Review | Ed Tracy The splashy opulence of the 1920s Jazz Age comes to life in the national touring production of "The Great Gatsby: A New Mus...

Delightfully Devious Duo Meets Rotund Rapscallion! PicksInSix® Review | Ed Tracy Directed with comic zeal by Philip Breen and featuring Jason Simon in a terrific performance as the rotund raps...

Stunning ‘Ma Rainey’ Revival at Goodman! PicksInSix® Gold Review | Ed Tracy The 1982 drama “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”—August Wilson’s study of Black music and culture in Chicago during the tumul...

Heads Are Talking: Is Perception Reality? PicksInSix® Review | Guest Contributor | Sarah Frances Fiorello David Byrne is simultaneously everywhere and nowhere at the Reid Murdoch Building on 3...

Total Foolery and Fun at Theo! PicksInSix® Review | Guest Contributor | Ronald Keaton So, it's like this... “The Drowsy Chaperone,” which runs through April 19 at Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre on ...

Mrs. Doubtfire's Craig Allen Smith and Ava Rose Doty PicksInSix® Q & A | Ed Tracy When “Mrs. Doubtfire” sweeps into the Morris Performing Arts Center in South Bend for four shows March 13-...

The Struggle to Feel Less Alone. PicksInSix® Review | Guest Contributor | Kaitlyn Linsner We are chronically online. Profit-maximizing algorithms fuel our social media compulsions. Phones serve as ...

Trapped, Strindberg Style: Aristocratic Summer Solstice PicksInSix® Review | Guest Contributor | Sarah Frances Fiorello It’s been a long, hard winter here in Chicago, but on the south side at ...