You know who Eugene O'Neill is, right? One of America's best and most famous playwrights, he penned such oft-taught classics as Desire Under the Elms, The Iceman Cometh, and Long Day's Journey Into Night. Uh, pretty depressing stuff. But did you know that O'Neill also wrote a comedy? One comedy? A turn-of-the-century comedy, no less? (Aren't those the best?) It is Ah, Wilderness!, and the players over at St. Ed's have it running right now,... more ›

Welcome to a deliberately antagonistic This Week in Theatre, inspired by St. Nicholas – Hyde Park Theatre's one-man show about a theatre critic who hangs out with vampires. Not so subtle, and starring HPT’s Artistic Tour de Force, Ken Webster – a man who’s reportedly tumultuous relationship with local critics befits his role in said production. (Not that we’ve ever had any run-ins with Ken. Ever. Not even one time.) We say this to... more ›

August Wilson, "Theater's Poet of Black America", passed away yesterday after a brief fight with liver cancer. He was 60. Wilson, whom we profiled back in June, was the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of a ten-piece, decade-by-decade exposition of the twentieth century as experienced by African Americans - from dealing with extraordinary obstacles like race relations, segregation, and the suffrage movement, to the banalities of daily life. Most recently the Pro Arts Collective performed Wilson's... more ›