THEATRE CRITICISM
Sarah began writing for online site Theatre By Numbers in the spring of 2016, and became the editor of the site in winter 2017. She and the other writers are randomly assigned to review Chicago area productions via a twenty-sided die. Below are links to the shows she's reviewed:
- Mosque Alert (Silk Road Rising)
- Trash (New American Folk Theatre)
- The Women of Lockerbie (AstonRep Theatre Company)
- In the Time of the Butterflies (Teatro Vista)
- A Splintered Soul (ARLA Productions)
- The House of Blue Leaves (Raven Theatre)
- The Secretaries (About Face Theatre)
- Twisted Knots (TTKD Productions)
- The Seagull (The Artistic Home)
- Out of the Blue (Organic Theater Company)
- The Divine Sister (Hell in a Handbag Productions)
- The Ben Hecht Show (Grippo Stage Company)
- Human Terrain (Broken Nose Theatre)
- Wastwater (Steep Theatre Company)
- Dating & Dragons (The Factory Theater)
- DOUGLASS (the american vicarious)
- THRUST! (Tapman Productions)
- Red Velvet (Raven Theatre)
- Macbeth (Theatre Y)
- Murder On Mount Olympus (The Public House Theatre)
- The Christians (Steppenwolf Theatre Company)
- Sarah's Top Five Shows of 2016 (Theatre By Numbers)
- Men On Boats (American Theater Company)
- The Tempermentals (About Face Theatre)
- The Wolf at the End of the Block (Teatro Vista)
- The Scottsboro Boys (Porchlight Music Theatre)
- Squeeze My Cans (Greenhouse Theater Center)
- Transit of Venus (Saint Sebastian Players)
- Private Eyes (Piccolo Theatre)
- Gentle (TUTA Theatre Chicago)
- Venus in Fur (Circle Theatre)
- Mother of Smoke (Red Tape Theatre and Walkabout Theater Company)
- Time Stands Still (AstonRep Theatre Company)
- The Radiant (Genesis Theatrical Productions)
- A Prayer for the Sandinistas (Subtext Theater Company)
- Three Days of Rain (BoHo Theatre)
- Bette Davis Ain't For Sissies (Velvet Fox Productions)
- The Fair Maid of the West (Oak Park Festival Theatre)
- The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Red Theater Chicago)
- The Invisible Scarlet O'Neil (Babes With Blades Theatre Company)
- The Heavens Are Hung In Black (Shattered Globe Theatre)
- Alias Grace (Rivendell Theatre Ensemble)
- A View From the Bridge (Goodman Theatre)
- The Last Days of the Commune (Prop Thtr)
- J.B. (City Lit Theater)
- Shakin' the Mess Outta Misery (Pegasus Theatre Chicago)
- Little Red Cyrano (Red Theater Chicago)
- BLKS (Steppenwolf Theatre Company)
- Editorial Change at Theatre By Numbers (Press Announcement)
- Sarah's Top Five Shows of 2017 (Theatre By Numbers)
- The Light (The New Colony)
- The Good Fight (Babes With Blades Theatre Company)
- Yank! A World War II Love Story (Pride Film & Plays)
- We're Gonna Be Okay (American Theatre Company)
- Hatfield & McCoy (The House Theatre of Chicago)
- The Madwoman of Chaillot (Promethean Theatre Ensemble)
- Kingdom (Broken Nose Theatre)
- Through the Elevated Line (Silk Road Rising)
- 9 to 5 The Musical (Firebrand Theatre)
- Birds of a Feather (Greenhouse Theater Center)
FILM CRITICISM (Email Sarah if you would like to read.)
For almost eight years, Sarah served as the lone film critic for Freeport, Illinois, under the banner of both the weekly Freeport INK and the daily Freeport Journal Standard. Below is a selection of reviews from her film column, "The Flick Chick." The reviews range from documentaries to indie flicks to family dramas and beyond.