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The week in theatre: A Child of Science; Wedding Band; No Love Songs – review

The moving story of the invention of IVF gives space to the women affected; Alice Childress’s 60s interracial romance proves relevant still; but a musical about unplanned parenthood can’t find the drama

The Guardian - UK · Jun 16, 2024

Wedding Band: A Love Hate Story in Black and White review – high-stakes passion in the segregated south

Alice Childress’s powerful story of a biracial couple is set in South Carolina in 1918, but burns with the heat of the civil rights era when it was written

The Guardian - UK · Jun 7, 2024

TimeLine’s scorching ‘Trouble in Mind’ takes on backstage indignities with wry wit

Going behind the scenes of a 1957 play staging, the cutting drama depicts Broadway theater as a hotbed of stereotypes and microaggressions.

Chicago Sun-Times · Nov 14, 2022

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Seminal ‘Trouble in Mind’ still resonates nearly 70 years later

The Alice Childress drama about the Black experience in the theater world is as powerful today as it was when it was written in the mid-1950s.

Chicago Sun-Times · Nov 2, 2022

Without more federal money, what will regional theaters do?

Subscriptions and ticket sales are down, but theater is needed more than ever. What theaters are doing to survive.

WEKU · Oct 19, 2022

Plays by Black writers are finally getting the spotlight, from Broadway to the West

DALLAS — It’s a great time to be a Black playwright.

Tribune News Service · Oct 14, 2022

Chicago theater for fall 2022: Our top 10 includes ‘Dreamgirls,’ ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ and ‘The Notebook’

CHICAGO — The total number of theater shows on offer in Chicago has not returned to pre-pandemic levels. But the lists of coming attractions still contain some appealing offerings of all stripes. Here’s a selection of 10 shows, all with Chicago origins and involving Chicago artists, that look to have…

Chicago Tribune · Sep 7, 2022

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