The New York Times • 11th December 2020

Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Happy Endings’

In its day, this hangout comedy was lumped in with “Friends.” But its crisp, rat-a-tat style is more like “30 Rock.”

Chicago magazine • 28th July 2020

Museums Are Reopening. But Will They Ever Be the Same?

Science and nature exhibits are rife with buttons to press, touchscreens to swipe, and levers to pull — all the high-touch activities we’re meant to be avoiding.

Storefront Rebellion • 26th May 2020

Victory Gardens loses an ensemble of playwrights, again

Why the theater's board of directors really, really should have seen this coming.

Chicago magazine • 16th January 2020

“Where Did You Laugh?”

Carrie Coon and Tracy Letts talk spousal script reading, being almost famous, and bringing Bug back to Steppenwolf.

The New York Times • 30th April 2019

A Lost Latino Hotspot Is Reborn on a Chicago Stage

Sandra Delgado wrote "La Havana Madrid" to answer her own question: How could a hub of the Spanish-speaking community be so forgotten?

Storefront Rebellion • 31st December 2019

The best Chicago theater of the 2010s

As we enter a new decade, I was moved to look back over the one we’re ending, and the maybe-literally thousands of Chicago plays I saw in it.

Chicago magazine • 13th May 2019

After Moonlight

Oscar-winning screenwriter Tarell Alvin McCraney returns to Chicago — and to acting — for his new Steppenwolf play.

Time Out Chicago • 10th April 2012

90 minutes on the rocks with Nathan Lane and Brian Dennehy

The actors talk about the Goodman’s revival of ‘The Iceman Cometh.’ This piece earned Bronze in the category of ‘single article, consumer/regional magazine’ at FOLIO: Magazine’s 2012 Eddie Awards. It also picked up my second Lisagor nomination for Arts Reporting and Criticism.

Time Out Chicago • 30th August 2016

Lin-Manuel Miranda on recreating Hamilton’s success for Chicago

There’s no debating: ‘Hamilton’ has made American history hot. Now that it’s elected Chicago as its first post- Broadway home, get ready to enter the ticket lottery early and often.

Chicago Sun-Times • 5th September 2019

‘The Band’s Visit’ a marvelous, exquisitely crafted arrival indeed

What joyously unexpected depths this beautiful and moving desert tale plumbs.

Chicago Sun-Times • 20th May 2019

Biographical ‘Four Chords and a Gun’ missing key ingredient: the Ramones’ music

Shunting the band’s actual songs off to the postshow mini-concert feels inescapably odd, especially in a city as teeming with talented actor-musicians as Chicago.

Chicago magazine • 19th October 2018

Hamlet Is the Latest Chicago Shakespeare Theater Role that Didn’t Go to a Local

In casting Raúl Esparza as the Bard’s thinky prince, the theater yet again overlooks qualified locals.

Chicago magazine • 25th July 2018

Chicagoist Helped Make the Media Landscape that Chance the Rapper Hates

If he wants to stop the eagle-eye coverage of his every move, the rapper will need a better model than hyperlocal news aggregator.

Time Out Chicago • 7th December 2016

Why is theater in Chicago (still) so white?

A new generation of artists weighs in on Chicago theater’s continuing color bind.

Time Out Chicago • 15th June 2010

Playwright Tanya Saracho

With a new Chekhov adaptation in the Goodman's Latino Theatre Festival and a pair of commissions from Steppenwolf, Tanya Saracho is poised to break out.

AMERICAN THEATRE • 17th February 2016

Arkansas’s TheatreSquared: The Middle of Somewhere

Martin Miller and Robert Ford have made their small company a theatrical force in Northwest Arkansas, but it hasn’t happened in a vacuum.

Time Out Chicago • 12th March 2015

First Wives Club at Oriental Theatre

You'll want to hang out with the new musical's dazzling lead actresses—just not in this particular club.

Time Out Chicago • 21st November 2014

The Humans at American Theater Company

Playwright Stephen Karam is in rare form here, showing a remarkable ear for the way families converse. For all of the characters' woes, this is a warm, funny, sharply observed portrait of their abiding connections with one another.

Time Out Chicago • 13th December 2010

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at Steppenwolf Theatre Company

Edward Albee's marital-strife drama no longer carries the shock value that scandalized 1962 audiences, but as Tracy Letts and Amy Morton prove in Steppenwolf's searing revival, it still has plenty of potential to upend expectations.

Time Out Chicago • 5th December 2013

Actor John McGinty stars in Steppenwolf's Tribes

The actor steps out of Nina Raine's play at the Guthrie and directly into the same role, with a new family and director, at Steppenwolf.