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Chicago theater mid-season preview, Part 3: Steppenwolf, Lookingglass, Chicago Shakes

Feb 7, 2019 – 2:34 pm
Feature 1 Part 3 Joel Moorman

Preview: The mid-winter is far from bleak under Chicago’s theater marquees. Steppenwolf offers Lucas Hnath’s “A Doll’s House, Part 2,” a sort of what-if sequel to Ibsen’s play. Lookingglass runs out the premiere of Kareem Bandealy’s ‘Act(s) of God,” a cosmic guess-who’s-coming-to-dinner. And Chicago Shakespeare revisits the Bard’s melancholy prince – ever perched on the existential fence between being and nothingness.

‘Bengal Tiger’ at Lookingglass: Man, beast change stripes, and God’s not in the details

Feb 12, 2013 – 4:15 pm
JJ Phillips as Kev and Anish Jethmalani as Musa in Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo by Rajiv Joseph at Lookingglass 2013 credit Liz Lauren

Review: To be engulfed by the despair that sweeps over “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo” is to be reminded of the spiritual nausea that seized Jean-Paul Sartre and other French existentialist playwrights who watched their own world getting blown to pieces in the 1940s. Lookingglass Theatre and director Heidi Stillman have turned Rajiv Joseph’s play into one of the peak stage experiences of this season. ★★★★★

‘Cascabel’ flips theater on its head with cuisine, acrobatics and upside-down wine

Mar 30, 2012 – 2:27 pm
Cascabel featured image Alexandria Pivarel as Bathing Chica Lookingglass Theatre credit Sean Williams

High-wire fun at Lookingglass. 4 stars!