Kerry Reid

Chicago

Writer at Freelance

Theater Critic and Editor at Chicago Reader

Featured in: Favicon

chicagoreader.com Favicon

chicagotribune.com Favicon

orlandosentinel.com Favicon

playbill.com Favicon

chicagomag.com Favicon

staffordshire-live.co.uk Favicon

americantheatre.org Favicon

windycitytimes.com Favicon

biorxiv.org Favicon

nature.com + 3 more

Articles

Romance language

1 week ago | chicagoreader.com | Kerry Reid

Irish dramatist Brian Friel set much of his work in the fictional Donegal town of Ballybeg; in 1980’s Translations, now in a lovely revival at Writers Theatre under Braden Abraham’s direction, he showed us how the name of the town changed from the Irish Baile Beag (literally “small town”) to the Anglicized version.
Bunny angst - Chicago Reader

1 week ago | chicagoreader.com | Kerry Reid

Deven (Colin Callahan) is an angst-filled brown bunny in a Misfits T-shirt who spends his days commiserating with his fellow goth Penelope (Al Duffy). Since the latter is a porcupine, she’s already used to people finding her (and her quills) a little off-putting. Life’s hard enough when you’re an angry kid about to turn 13 in an aggressively upbeat place like Merry Town, where every day starts with an ode to how neat everything is.
Henry, portrait of a patsy

1 week ago | chicagoreader.com | Kerry Reid

Many years ago, my late sister got a job right out of law school working for Bernie Mamet, father of former Chicago playwright David. One time, she told me, they went to court together and Bernie gave his name to the court reporter, who asked, “Any relation to David?” “Yeah, I’m his father.” “Well, I bet you taught him everything he knows.” To which Bernie replied, “I taught him everything he knows.
Hell in a Handbag's David Cerda unpacks his personal baggage

2 weeks ago | chicagoreader.com | Kerry Reid

Stages of Survival is an occasional series focusing on Chicago theater companies, highlighting their histories and how they’re surviving—and even thriving—in a landscape that’s become decidedly more challenging since the 2020 COVID-19 shutdown.
Lovers and daughters

2 weeks ago | chicagoreader.com | Kerry Reid

Lisa Dillman’s No Such Thing, now in a world premiere at Rivendell Theatre Ensemble under Malkia Stampley’s direction, intertwines two primary plots: an extramarital liaison between Ren (Susan Gosdick) and a younger man (Josh Odor) whose real name she doesn’t even know, and the unfinished business between Ren and her adult daughter, Olivia (Jessica Ervin).
Border wars - Chicago Reader

2 weeks ago | chicagoreader.com | Kerry Reid

Suzan-Lori Parks knows how to interweave domestic conflicts within the larger framework of our national madnesses and obsessions, of which white supremacy and its violent effects (external and internal) on non-white people is the most obvious and toxic. In the Pulitzer Prize–winning Topdog/Underdog, two Black brothers, Lincoln and Booth, excavate their shared past against the backdrop of racism and poverty.
'Flying high': Family-owned business operating for over 175 years in Northern Ireland re-secures Belfast City Airport facilities management contract

2 weeks ago | newsletter.co.uk | Claire Cartmill |Kerry Reid

By Claire Cartmill & Kerry Reid Contributor Published 8th Apr 2025, 10:54 BST Updated 8th Apr 2025, 13:39 BST Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565 Visit Shots! now H&J Martin Group has been confirmed as the approved contractor for all Hard and Soft Facilities Management (FM) services at Belfast City Airport for an additional three-year period Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Belfast News Letter, you can get unlimited...
H&J Martin Group re-secure Belfast City Airport facilities management contract for another three years

2 weeks ago | newsletter.co.uk | Kerry Reid

Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowH&J Martin Group, a family-owned business operating for over 175 years in Northern Ireland has been confirmed as the approved contractor for all Hard and Soft Facilities Management (FM) services at Belfast City Airport for an additional three-year period. The securing of this new contract marks a successful and ongoing relationship that began in 2020.
Rocking the boat

3 weeks ago | chicagoreader.com | Kerry Reid

Whether you love or hate James Cameron’s 1997 epic celluloid romance, Titaníque welcomes you aboard. The jukebox musical featuring songs by Céline Dion, who is also our tour guide through this whacked-out pastiche of the film, started life in 2017 as a one-night-only concert and eventually made its way to a still-going-strong off-Broadway run in 2022.
Superheroes, family style

3 weeks ago | chicagoreader.com | Kerry Reid

Hannah (Emily Zhang) is a seven-year-old girl with an active imagination and an even more active dislike of practicing the flute. Before her mom (Miriam Lee) gets home from work, she and her grandmother Halmoni (Ginger Leopoldo) play at being superheroes, and Hannah does everything she can to forget that playing the flute is on her to-do list from her mom (along with making the bed, taking out the trash, and watering the plants).