It has been “all-theater, all-the-time” during the month of January. Hey, I’m not complaining – the extraordinary, singular, multi-month Eugene O’Neill Festival at the Goodman Theater, for one, is worth every single freezing minute on the Brown Line “L” platform painfully waiting for a train to arrive. This city’s cultural audiences owe a huge debt of gratitude to Goodman Artistic Director Bob Falls for devising, curating, and tirelessly promoting this fantastic Chicago cultural event of the season, if not the year. But there were also a lot of other must-see productions to go to in the Chicagoland area, some of them immensely satisfying, others gravely disappointing, some of them flawed but still a great night of live performance. Here are impressions on other plays I’ve seen during the last month:
Tags: American Theater Company, Companhia Triptal, Drury Lane Theater Oakbrook, Goodman Theater
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