Anyone who writes an honest tell-all memoir about their family will hurt some feelings. Most parents, siblings and spouses would rather not have their private moments revealed in a book. And what if the family has secrets involving crime, death and politics, and disagreements about what it all means? In that situation, a family […]
This drama first won attention three years ago as a vehicle for Jane Fonda, who returned to Broadway after decades offstage. But Nick Bowling’s production for TimeLine Theatre Company (hosted at the larger Stage 773 venue, rather than TimeLine’s home space on Wellington Avenue in Chicago) proves that star power isn’t needed in this Moises Kaufman’s […]
Has the missing link ever been found? In 1912 a skull supposedly unearthed in Sussex, England seemed to prove that man had evolved from the ape, supporting Charles Darwin’s “Origin of the Species” published more than half a century earlier. That’s the crux of the new, thought-provoking drama “Fake,” which opened at Steppenwolf on Sept. […]
