Playwright Stephen Karam co-wrote American Theater Company's last production, the chilling and cathartic columbinus (which ATC recently said it will tour to Boston in the fall)…

Profiles' patron saint Neil LaBute revises his 1997 screenwriting debut for the stage, with results more nuanced than much of his more recent work.

A site-specific Scottish import offers a harrowing up-close view of human trafficking and the sex trade.

Young Jean Lee plays on Shakespeare's tragedy by imagining the aftermath for Lear and Gloucester's children.

Bruce Graham's new play about a pair of friends who might become more late in life has all the depth of a greeting card.

Barbara Gaines mounts Shakespeare's little-seen history of the English king and his first two wives, Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn—the play's first-ever staging in Chicago.

J.T. Rogers dramatizes the CIA's role in the Afghan-Soviet war with a keen sense of its continuing resonations.

Tamberla Perry mesmerizes as an aspiring actress trying to play to what Hollywood will let her be.

The Lyric continues its musical-theater outreach with a lushly rendered production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's first collaboration.

The historical Chicago characters at the center of Jay Torrence's new play get a bit lost amid the piece's quirks.