Review: CHICAGO Brings All That Jazz at Split Stage
by Greg Kerestan - February 10, 2026
Never underestimate the power of hiring the full orchestra...
Review: MALCOLM X AND REDD FOXX WASHING DISHES... Cooks Up Chemistry at City Theatre
by Greg Kerestan - January 29, 2026
Unlike most works of historical fiction, the vibes in this new dramedy are so good, you almost don't need the biographical tie-ins at all....
Review: FRONT PORCH CABARET Announces its Biggest Get Yet at Front Porch Theatricals
by Greg Kerestan - December 03, 2025
The only constant is change, as anyone will tell you, and Front Porch Theatricals has always epitomized that. Other than knowing their shows are going to be good, you could go in knowing everything or nothing (more often nothing) about their curated picks and walk out satisfied. ...
Past Shows
The Animal Kingdom by Ruby Thomas
Jun 14 – Jun 30, 2024
ABOUT THE ANIMAL KINGDOM by Ruby ThomasEnter the tumultuous world of Sam and his bewildered family, where understanding is as rare as a glimpse of...
American Buffalo
Nov 17 – Dec 10, 2023
Three small-time hustlers want a bigger cut of theAmerican dream. David Mamet's explosive dramaexposes a timely American truth: The hustle and thecon are two sides of the same coin.In a Chicago junk shop, three small-time crooks plot torob a man of his coin collection, the showpiece ofwhich is a valuable “Buffalo nickel.” These high-mindedgrifters fancy themselves businessmen pursuinglegitimate free enterprise. But Donny, the junk shopowner, Bobby, a young junkie Donny has taken underhis wing, and “Teach,” a violently paranoid braggart, aremerely pawns caught up in their own game of last-chance, dead-end, empty pipe dreams."This production of American Buffalo, opening as the holiday season is moments away, and isn’t exactly in the spirit of merriment. However, it is a theatrical...
American Buffalo
Nov 17 – Dec 10, 2023
Three small-time hustlers want a bigger cut of theAmerican dream. David Mamet's explosive dramaexposes a timely American truth: The hustle and thecon are two sides of the same coin.In a Chicago junk shop, three small-time crooks plot torob a man of his coin collection, the showpiece ofwhich is a valuable “Buffalo nickel.” These high-mindedgrifters fancy themselves businessmen pursuinglegitimate free enterprise. But Donny, the junk shopowner, Bobby, a young junkie Donny has taken underhis wing, and “Teach,” a violently paranoid braggart, aremerely pawns caught up in their own game of last-chance, dead-end, empty pipe dreams."This production of American Buffalo, opening as the holiday season is moments away, and isn’t exactly in the spirit of merriment. However, it is a theatrical...
The Sound Inside
Aug 11 – Aug 26, 2023
When Bella Baird, an isolated creative writing professor at Yale, begins to mentor a brilliant but enigmatic student named Christopher, the two form an unexpectedly...
Is God Is
Feb 24 – Mar 12, 2023
Is God Is by Aleshea Harris is a modern myth about twin sisters who sojourn from the DirtySouth to the California desert to exact righteousrevenge....
The Total Immersion of Madeleine Favorini
Aug 17 – Aug 18, 2018
“The Total Immersion of Madeleine Favorini” is a surreal 3-performer piece (15 roles) in which 46-year-old Madeleine Favorini journeys from dutifulness to rebellion on a...
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