Writers Theatre Transforms Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” Into A Foot-Tapping Musical Polish restaurants in Chicago: Where to find pierogi, borscht, pączki and more In “Veal,” the Tormented Middle School Friend Becomes Queen of North America “A Night of Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness” Transforms A Nineties Icon for the Lyric Opera In “Ashland Avenue,” One Chicago Shop Owner Must Come to Terms with the Future Susan Booth on the Goodman Theatre’s Quintessentially Chicago “Ashland Avenue” Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. on “The El,” Abaout One 1979 Day in the Life of A Chicago Street Gang The Ghost in the Barbershop: Gavin Dillon Lawrence on “The Death of Chuck Brown” at American Players Theatre Half the Troupe, All the Passion: A Review of “Circus Abyssinia: Ethiopian Dreams” at Chicago Shakespeare Theater The New Musical Revolution(s) Wants to 'Rock the Joint to the Ground' The Bloody History of A Seventeenth Century Countess Is Told in Idle Muse’s New Production Recent Articles Music Theater Works Brings the Gospel of St. Matthew to a Coffee Shop In Steppenwolf’s “Mr. Wolf,” A Teenager Reluctantly Returns Home From Her Kidnapper Maureen Dowd on Shakespearean Politics, Chicago and the “Twin Cities of Illusion” The Optimistic Era: A Review of “44—The Musical” at Studebaker Theater