Theatrical variety is on parade this weekend as monologist David Kodeski and composer Eric Reda co-author an opera tracking a gay life in the arts, while Oak Park's Circle Theatre goes Bollywood and eta Creative Arts tackles a drama by Lonnie Elder III.

Election season means plays about presidents as much as it means deciding who gets to misspend Your Tax Dollars for the next four years.

The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, staged by National Theatre of Scotland at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, is an intimate evening of storytelling — the kind you might find in a snug Scots pub or around a cowboy campfire.

Evolutionary serio-comedy at Remy Bumppo and August Wilson at Court. 

For a guy who died nearly 60 years ago, Eugene O'Neill is having an amazing year in Chicago.

Dead playwrights are alive and well and still serving to inspire — sometimes wisely and sometimes not — theater artists of today.

Chicago's 220-plus producing theater companies offer 40 to 50 new productions every month of the year, with about 40 percent of them being world premieres of new works. This week critic Jonathan Abarbanel highlights two new plays by two Chicago playwrights.