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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...

In Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library, Jenny Lyn Bader uses the brief imprisonment of Hannah Arendt as a vehicle for scrutinizing the rise of Fascism through a sharp political mind.&nbsp…

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...

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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....

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“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...

Experiencing the timeless wonder of a play by William Shakespeare does not have to be some hoity-toity affair.  Done well, his iambic pentameter can sound closer to natural conversation than a…

‘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...

With both the plight of the neighboring island of Cuba and the struggles of refuges worldwide in the headlines, the appearance of the Hit the Lights! production Isla couldn’t be more timely.  …

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...

Our theatre critic sees the beloved Rodgers and Hammerstein musical for the first time, and it's a trip

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...

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‘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...

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You can imagine a pitch meeting along these lines: “I’ve written a play that depicts the difference between being religious and acting godly.  Oh, and the lead roles are 13 and 14 year old boy…

On July 24, Cross Walk (a division of Bleeker Street Films) and LD Entertainment will be releasing their much-anticipated live theater capture of the West End production of Hadestown: The Musical.&…

After ambling through San Francisco and New Jersey, the musical version of A Walk on the Moon has landed Off-Broadway.  The story is set in 1969 during a summer of great societal change.  America i…

‘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...

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‘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 “...

By LOU HARRY I laughed a lot during Iceboy, the new musical getting what producers hope is a pre-Broadway run at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. The new musical concerns a wealthy actress’ acquisition...

At first glance, John S. Anastasi’s Pied-À-Terre appears to be just another version of an oft-repeated story.  Jack, a middle-aged, financially successful lawyer, picks up Katie, a teen prosti…

By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) In Shakespeare’s Richard II at the beginning of Act II,  there is a famous phrase that is uttered in reference to England. On his deathbed, John...