Articles by Jessie Bond

On Tuesday, March 28, Stage Left Theatre presented DrekFest, an annual staged reading series in which playwrights compete to write the worst ten-minute play. Four scripts are performed, and afterwards audience members have the opportunity […]

  Red Tape Theatre and Walkabout Theater Company present Mother of Smoke, a world premiere devised work directed by Walkabout artistic director Thom Pasculli. Combining existing texts with original text, music, and movement, Mother of […]

In the Midwest premiere of Anne Washburn’s new play, Theater Wit presents 10 Out of 12, directed by Jeremy Wechsler and featuring the voices of Chicago favorites Martha Lavey, John Mahoney, Barbara Robertson, and Peter […]

“Ease on down, ease on down the road.” These are the lyrics and theme at the heart of The Wiz, a beloved musical that offers a uniquely African-American take on America’s favorite fairy tale, The […]

This March and April, the LGBTQ-centric Nothing Without a Company presents The Kid Thing by Sarah Gubbins, directed by Jake Fruend. Performed in the intimate setting of the North Mansion of Berger Park Cultural Center, […]

Last weekend marked the opening of The Infinite Wrench, the Neo-Futurists’ new late night show. Following the revoking of the rights to Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, Chicago’s longest continuously running show, […]

Chicago Shakespeare Theater presents Short Shakespeare! Romeo and Juliet, a new abridged adaptation of the immortal tale of star-crossed lovers. Functioning primarily as an educational endeavor, with weekday performances for groups of students, the production […]

What do you mean when you call for female? This is one of many questions explored in Collaboraction’s new devised work, Gender Breakdown, which explores the baffling absence of gender parity in Chicago theatre in […]

Writers Theatre continues its 2016-17 season with The Scene by Theresa Rebeck, directed by Kimberly Senior. This edgy comedy begins when friends Lewis and Charlie meet Clea, an unusual young woman and recent New York […]

Madeleine L’Engle’s classic children’s novel, A Wrinkle in Time, made its stage debut in 1990 at Chicago’s Lifeline Theatre, in an adaptation by James Sie. After a second production in 1998, the script is now […]