Studio Theatre’s wheelhouse is “pulling off top-drawer acting and design from many of America’s finest designers in these ...

“Downstate” by Bruce Norris gets a provocative and timely production at Studio Theatre. Echo chambers and hard-line stances ...

Set in a tidy, no-frills group house somewhere south of the Chicago metropolitan area, “Downstate” gives us four disparate housemates with one thing in common: they’re all registered sex offenders.

In here (the rundown ranch-home set is by Alexander Woodward), their dynamics are not unlike a family’s: There’s a house mother (Stephen Conrad Moore), who attends to everyone’s comforts ...

The world they’re permitted to navigate has notched down once again. Stephen Conrad Moore (Dee), Richard Ruiz Henry (Felix), Kelli Blackwell (Ivy), Jaysen Wright (Gio), and Dan Daily (Fred) in ...