The Woman in White, the audience in blankets

By Ana Klimchynskaya / October 8, 2012

A Victorian mystery novel gets adapted for the Lifeline Theatre stage.

A play within a play about theater cliches

By Ana Klimchynskaya / May 20, 2011

Put your meta-hat on, because this is going to be one wild ride.

Filament’s muses sing of fate and tragedy

By Ana Klimchynskaya / April 29, 2011

Filament Theater breaks the barrier between play and audience in Eurydice and Orpheus.

“Happiness” examines love and art in academia

By Ana Klimchynskaya / April 26, 2011

"There is a Happiness That Morning Is" delivers love and scandal in iambic pentameter.

Arlecchino’s Odyssey redefines theater

By Ana Klimchynskaya / April 19, 2011

All you need are words and gestures.

Hookups and life of the mind not mutually exclusive

By Ana Klimchynskaya / April 12, 2011

In response to "Nothing U of C about UChicago hook-up site" (April 1)

Strawdog Theatre masters classic Russian novel

By Ana Klimchynskaya / March 8, 2011

Strawdog's adaptation captures the essence of The Master and Margarita with an appropriate reverence for the original.

Lifeline fails to resurrect Collins’s classic mystery

By Ana Klimchynskaya / March 4, 2011

Collins's dynamic characters and narrative structure get lost in translation

If two is not a winner, and three no one remembers, what about Number 4?

By Ana Klimchynskaya / February 18, 2011

I Am Number Four makes a muddled mash-up of sci-fi and rom-com

Funk It Up suffocates Shakespeare without rhyme or reason

By Ana Klimchynskaya / February 4, 2011

Shakespeare’s universality is buried under unnecessary attempts to modernize him.

Who’s afraid of the big bad Steppenwolf?

By Ana Klimchynskaya / January 28, 2011

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is about coming to terms with reality and doing away with illusions.

Female fangs overthrow male dominance in Carmilla

By Ana Klimchynskaya / January 25, 2011

WildClaw Theatre’s Carmilla tells the story of a female vampire who has intimate relationships with her victims.

Filament Theatre transports Shakespeare back to his playful roots

By Ana Klimchynskaya / November 19, 2010

Filament Theatre's Choose Thine Own Adventure improves Othello & others through improv

In Pilsen, art becomes a matter of life and death

By Ana Klimchynskaya / October 29, 2010

The National Museum of Mexican Art holds its yearly Day of the Dead exhibit

Candide takes too many pages out of its own book

By Ana Klimchynskaya / October 19, 2010

Candide is the story of a journey of discovery, and the audience (although presumably less naïve than Candide) is along for the ride to learn (or relearn) some of his lessons.

Lifeline’s Wuthering Heights looks at the dark side of romance

By Ana Klimchynskaya / October 8, 2010

Audience gets chilled to the bone with Lifeline Theatre's immersive adaptation