Emily McClanathan

When your home country is no longer a safe and nurturing place, do you stay or leave? And when a close-knit group of friends is scattered across continents by their...

This murder mystery has been updated but still has plenty of period-appropriate charm and melodrama in a new production in the western 'burbs.

Early on, the play sets up familiar coming-of-age tensions of maintaining old friendships versus cultivating new ones, but it's soon apparent that Mo and Steff are dealing with darker problems.

The audience, limited to 15 people per performance, embark on a journey through the United Church of Rogers Park’s nearly 100-year-old building.

Phillip Howze’s experimental, often confounding play, draws on theatrical traditions of absurdism, burlesque and commedia dell’arte to satirize a slew of Western interlopers.