Two actors fill 15 roles in Marie Jones’s Irish lark, sunk by a lack of precision and clarity in Northlight’s production.

The Duke of Gloucester leads a biker gang in a barroom revival of what might be Shakespeare’s greatest history play.

Robert Falls relocates Shakespeare’s debaucherous Vienna to a disco-stylized New York.

The Q Brothers turn their attention to tragedy by making the Moor a superstar MC.

Shakespeare’s portrait of Roman politics feels thrillingly modern in Geoff Button’s staging for the Hypocrites.

A middle-aged couple wakes up with mutual amnesia in Lee Blessing’s strange but powerful play.

The Neos’ Kurt Chiang transcribed Lord of the Flies by hand, then built an unexpectedly moving show around it.

A new verbatim-theater piece attempts to untangle Chicago’s youth violence epidemic.

The Plagiarists’ Scheherazade update falls flat.

Hershey Felder’s latest historical portrait comes off like a 19th-century Forrest Gump.