Current shows we think are hot!
The Credeaux Canvas, SmashTheatre, Heartland Studio through May 17. Director Robert Mello and his Meisner-trained actors make Keith Bunin's brainy tale of Art Scams and Big Chills an authenticated masterpiece. (Barnidge)
Hannah and Martin, Timeline Theatre, through June 8. The story of pro-Nazi philosopher Martin Heidegger and his Jewish paramour, Hannah Arendt, is the collusion of history, love, and philosophy, and makes for gripping, thought-provoking theater. (Reed)
The Lady from Dubuque, Organic Theater, through June 1. Outstanding acting and directing extract all the vitriol and humor from this 1979 Edward Albee play about identity loss and a dying woman, with an alcohol-fueled Act I and a mystical Act II. (Abarbanel)
Versailles, Dolled Up Productions at the Athenaeum, through June 15. Playwright Ben Byer starts with a father-son porn site in Lake Forest, as he ups the ante—or lowers it—on the Orton/Mamet school of skin-crawly and socially incorrect humor. (Barnidge)
by Jonathan Abarbanel,
Mary Shen Barnidge and Rick Reed
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