make it better – ROBERT LOERZEL

September-October 2017 Theater Preview

Make It Better, September-October 2017 — Read my recommendations for Chicago-area plays.

May-June 2017 Theater Preview

Make It Better, May-June 2017 — Read my recommendations for Chicago-area plays. Photo of Mike Nussbaum: Michael Brosilow

Lookingglass Theatre’s Reimagined ‘Moby Dick’: Interview with David Catlin

Make It Better, May-June 2017 — When David Catlin was creating Lookingglass Theatre’s stage version of “Moby Dick,” a sentence in the first chapter of Herman Melville’s novel jumped out at him. The narrator (that fellow who introduces himself by saying, “Call me Ishmael”) remarks: “I cannot tell why it was exactly that those stage managers,… Continue reading Lookingglass Theatre’s Reimagined ‘Moby Dick’: Interview with David Catlin

March-April 2017 Theater Preview

Make It Better, March-April 2017 — Read my recommendations for Chicago-area plays.

January-February 2017 Theater Preview

Make It Better, January-February 2017 — Read my preview of Chicago-area plays. Photo: Goodman Theatre

November-December 2016 Theater Preview

Make It Better, November-December 2016 — Read my preview of Chicago-area plays. Photo: Michael Courier (Emily Berman in Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley)