by Charles Kenney | May 21, 2026The Conspirators Adapt Moliere’s “Tartuffe” With a Neo-Commedia Style The Style combines mime-ish facepaint, frequent confrontation with the audience and musical accompaniment of each movement.
by Charles Kenney | February 13, 2026“Holiday” Blends the Past and Present at Goodman Theatre The play is primarily a family drama, webbing together the relationships of the fabulously wealthy Seton family with those who pass in and out of their lives on New York City’s Upper East Side.
by Charles Kenney | January 28, 2026A Long Marriage: Jeff Perry on Steppenwolf Theatre’s Fiftieth Anniversary and His Return for “The Dance of Death” “The Dance of Death” serves as a middle point of the fiftieth-anniversary season and is “a strain of work Steppenwolf has always been drawn to”—turn-of-the-century dramas which “feel absolutely contemporary.”
by Charles Kenney | November 5, 2025The Conspirators Stage Marx Brothers Classic “Duck Soup” at the New Stars and Garters Theater The talented cast works in a neo-commedia mode of performance called "The Style," delivering a fast-paced, riotous production.
by Charles Kenney | August 29, 2025Rehearsed Laughter: A Review of “The Chaos Theory of Everything” at The Second City
by Charles Kenney | June 6, 2025Fraternal Twins: A Review of “Six Men Dressed Like Joseph Stalin” at A Red Orchid Theatre
by Charles Kenney | February 11, 2025Love on Demand: A Review of Lazy Susan Theatre Company’s “Not Bitter Nor Sweet” at Greenhouse Theater Center
