Hi everyone!!!

Rob Silverman Ascher

05 May 2025 — 1 min read

You get it.

I hope you're well. You may have noticed that I haven't posted too much on here recently, but don't worry! There's more to come.

I've been lucky enough to contribute quite a bit to the venerable Chicago Reader in the past month, so there's some Rob Content there to check out. I'm particularly proud of the piece I wrote on Court Theatre's BERLIN, which I've linked here.

But as I said above, there's more to come (i.e. a new review tomorrow), so while you wait – hopefully with baited breath, but if not, no worries – please please PLEASE share this site with friends and loved ones, whether you're in Chicago or just interested in arts journalism from the heart.

See you soon,

Rob

The rapper Macklemore stands on stage saluting. He wears a blue satin jacket with Palestinian flag emblems, a white button-down shirt, and black sunglasses.

Good For You, Macklemore

Whether it’s the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ abdication of duty regarding filmmaker (and recent Oscar winner) Hamdan Ballal after he was attacked by settlers in Masafer Yatta or billionaire producer Marc Platt flying cross-country to dress Rachel Zegler down for tweeting “Free Palestine”, corporate monoculture is

Three women in their 30s wearing nightgowns stand together.

Drowned Family

Describing itself as “a 67-minute true crime bathtub fantasia”, Three Crows Theatre’s production of THE DROWNING GIRLS is fast and surprisingly funny, no small feat given the grim subject matter. Written in the late 90s by the Canadian trio of Beth Graham, Charlie Tomlinson, and Daniela Vlaskalic, THE DROWNING

From left to right: a man wearing sunglasses, jeans, a leather jacket and a red shirt, a woman in a black dress with smeared makeup, and a woman wearing a school girl outfit enter a party.

Laughing With the Ghosts

As a genre, the horror comedy has a tendency to over-deliver on one element and skimp on the other. A character getting their throat slit can be horrifying; a Deadpoolian “well, that just happened” isn’t all that funny. On the other hand, some filmmakers make what could be classified

On the left, a trans man in his late 20s wears a black v-neck and stands in a field. On the right, a line drawing of a chair.

The Possibilities Are Endless: A Conversation With Seph Mozes

Seph Mozes is a Chicago-based dramaturg and director whose evening of Gertrude Stein's plays, TURKEY AND BONES AND EATING AND WE LIKED IT, will be presented at Facility Theatre in Humboldt Park from March 14th to 29th. I sat down with him to discuss the unique challenges of

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Good For You, Macklemore

Drowned Family

Laughing With the Ghosts

The Possibilities Are Endless: A Conversation With Seph Mozes