RECOMMENDED Where: Victory Gardens Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln Ave. When: through March 3 Tickets: $27-$60 Phone: 773-871-3000 By ANNE SPISELMAN Theater Critic There’s a moment in Dominique Morisseau’s “Pipeline” that, perhaps unintentionally, epitomizes how parents fail to connect with their teenage children. Nya, a dedicated inner-city high school teacher who, with her ex-husband, has sent […]
RECOMMENDED Where: Broken Nose Theatre at The Den Theatre (2A), 1331 N. Milwaukee Ave. When: through March 2 Tickets: Pay what you can Contact: www.brokennosetheatre.com By ANNE SPISELMAN Theater Critic Stephen Spotswood’s “Girl in the Red Corner” tackles the familiar theme of self-actualization through sports but gives it an atypical twist by putting women in […]
RECOMMENDED Where: Goodman Theatre Albert Theatre, 170 N. Dearborn St. When: through Feb. 24 Tickets: $20-$70 Phone: 312-443-3800 By ANNE SPISELMAN Theater Critic Artistic creation and procreation, love and legacy, inspiration and rejection intersect in the world premiere of Christina Anderson’s intricately plotted “How to Catch Creation” at Goodman Theatre, where it first received a […]
RECOMMENDED Where: Northlight Theatre, North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, 9501 Skokie Blvd., Skokie When: through March 2 Tickets: $30-$88 Phone: 847-673-6300 By ANNE SPISELMAN Theater Critic If you just think of Nina Simone as a jazz singer, Christina Ham’s “Nina Simone: Four Women” at Northlight Theatre will be a real eye-opener. The intense […]
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Where: Court Theatre, 5535 S. Ellis Ave. When: through Feb. 23 Tickets: $50-$74 Phone: 773-753-4472 By ANNE SPISELMAN Theater Critic Anna Ziegler’s 2008 “Photograph 51” belongs to the growing body of literature helping women reclaim their rightful place in history in general and scientific history in particular. But the 90-minute play about Rosalind […]
RECOMMENDED Where: Shattered Globe Theatre at Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont Ave. When: through March 9 Tickets: $24-$74 Phone: 773-975-8150 By ANNE SPISELMAN Theater Critic Playwright Will Eno has an ear for awkwardness, anxiety, and absurdity, and all three abound in “The Realistic Joneses,” which made its debut on Broadway in 2014; it is having […]
RECOMMENDED Where: Royal George Theatre, 1641 N. Halsted St. When: through Feb. 17, 2019 Tickets: $49-$69 Phone: 312-988-9000 By ANNE SPISELMAN Theater Critic If you like ghost stories that are scary enough to make you gasp, “The Woman in Black” at the Royal George Theatre is the show for you. Helmed by the original director, […]
RECOMMENDED Where: Steppenwolf Upstairs Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted St. When: through Jan. 27 Tickets: $20-$89 Phone: 312-335-1650 By ANNE SPISELMAN Theater Critic Turning decades of atrocities against women into a 90-minute play is no easy task, but that’s just what Isaac Gomez attempts in “La Ruta,” which is enjoying a potent world premiere in Steppenwolf’s […]
RECOMMENDED Where: Cadillac Palace Theatre, 151 W. Randolph St. When: through Jan. 6 Tickets: $25-$98 Phone: 800-775-2000 By ANNE SPISELMAN Theater Critic There are several ways to look at “Fiddler on the Roof.” On the one hand, the multiple Tony Award-winning 1964 musical by Joseph Stein (book), Jerry Bock (music) and Sheldon Harnick (lyrics) is […]
RECOMMENDED Where: Black Ensemble Theater (BET) Cultural Center, 4450 N. Clark St. When: through Jan. 27, 2019 Tickets: $55-$65 Phone: 773-769-4451 By ANNE SPISELMAN Theater Critic Here are ten things to know about “Women of Soul (With a Tribute to the Queen)” at the Black Ensemble Theater Cultural Center” The nine women performers are all […]