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Lady slings the blues: Remy Bumppo’s Blues for an Alabama Sky catches an Angel in free fall
Playwright Pearl Cleage is deservedly getting her flowers in Chicago this month with a citywide festival celebrating her work, including productions of The Nacirema Society at the Goodman and, first up, Remy Bumppo’s mounting of Blues for an Alabama Sky, which wowed a packed opening-night audience last Monday at Theater Wit. Cleage has a gift…
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Revolution at A Red Orchid finds hope and humor among the weirdos who hang out behind the mall
Puff (Stephanie Shum) and Jame (Taylor Blim) are two young oddballs hanging out in the alley behind a nondescript American mall. They’re at loose ends, wondering where life might take them beyond the Revolution Cuts salon where they just got off shift and where they became best friends–even though maybe it’s weird to have your…
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Shattered Globe’s stripped-down A View From the Bridge packs a savage punch at Theater Wit
It’s amazing how significantly a change of venue can affect how a play lands with an audience. The impact might not always be as apparent as it is with different directors and casts, but it’s very real. When Noah Haidle’s Smokefall was presented in 2013 in the Goodman’s Owen Theatre and then enjoyed a 2014…
