Tango 21 Dance Theater's cabaret show lacks narrative sophistication. Originating on the streets of Argentina, filtered through European high society, blending A…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 06:05PMLucky Plush's new ensemble piece uses the roller rink as a metaphor for community. Ah, the roller rink—a community center where everyone keeps moving in circle…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:45PMDirected by Mary Zimmerman, this ardent and wide-eyed holiday show returns, albeit with at least one noteworthy blind spot.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:00AMRena Butler explores otherness and adaptation to new spaces in her contribution to Hubbard Street's Forge Forward program. This week, Hubbard Street Dance Chicag…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMThe characters in Jake Heggie's 2000 opera acquire charisma through the unhappiness of their situations and the obsessions that drive them.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:45AMThe choreographer's duets about changing partners takes over the Art Institute's Trading Room. On the northeasternmost edge of the Art Institute of Chicago, wher…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMBoth spoken and signed, this production plays its source material twice, spotlighting the disturbing ventriloquism of romantic relationships.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 02:30PMKhecari's new duet debuts at Links Hall. Two women begin with motion that is rapid and unrelenting, fearlessly yielding to momentum, whirring limbs about the axi…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWhat's drugs got to do with it?
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:46AMShakespeare's villain goes flat in Eclectic Full Contact's production. Shakespeare's Richard III is the embodiment of a man with a chip on his shoulder, a hunchb…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMThe company's fall series at the Athenaeum celebrates past work by artistic director Nick Pupillo and introduces a new piece by Spanish choreographer Monica Cervantes. …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMAt 20, Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre celebrates immigrant, Native, and African American identity in two programs of new work. Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre, founded …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMCourt Theatre continues to strengthen its reputation as the premiere destination for August Wilson work with this latest production.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:15PMHis first solo U.S. museum show explores optimism as characterized by the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. "Little one, I have dreams to sell," begins one of a parcel …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMGregory Jaco's Tornado School of Martial Arts comes alive in a new dance performance developed through the Rebuild Foundation. "To this school . . . we bring our…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 09:00PMA spinal injury led Joanna Furnans to an autobiographical solo dance exploring the minute. Minute movement. Mundane moments.…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMFleetwood-Jourdain Theatre’s world premiere shows the struggles of Black women in classical dance. Ballet dancers applauded last October when Freed of London b…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMAlistair McDowall’s thriller at Steep plants seeds of money, violence, sex, death . . . and Dungeons and Dragons. A woman's search for her missing sister becom…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWindy City Playhouse’s latest immersive ambulatory production offers a penetrating analysis of class privilege. Two college guys, unlike in privilege, in Provi…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMCloudgate Theatre’s production is too precious and preposterous. Atmosphere is everything in Cloudgate Theatre artistic director Kristin Idaszak's new Strange …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMThis production of Shakespeare's patriarchal anxiety dream finds truth in jest.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:15PMIt is sleek, sharp, and cool. Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's Summer Series performed at the Harris Theater June 6 through 9 was a sleek and futuristic vision: t…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 06:00PMAdult children confront the past and future lives of their aging parents over lunch. It's their weekly lunch date. They're sitting in the restaurant where she an…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMChoreographer Emma Draves and three dancers bring an elegant simplicity to their Dovetail Studios performance. The audience sits along two walls in Studio 1 at …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 01:27PMBut at least "Exit, pursued by a bear" finally makes sense. Now still being the winter of our discontent, it feels unwarranted for the Goodman Theatre to run its…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMThis is the fourth adaptation this year, if you're still keeping track. "It was on a dreary night in November," intones teenage Mary Shelley, thrusting a candela…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMEifman Ballet views the transformation through the lens of dance. Eifman Ballet returns to the Auditorium May 17-19 for the North American premiere of artistic d…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 02:30PMOf the several potentially fruitful directions for a play about a generic grown-up teen detective to take, this world premiere is not one of them.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMThe new play by Leonard House takes viewers inside a south side bar in 1972. It's 1972 and Haskins' bar has been a fixture on the south side of Chicago for 30 ye…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMDirected by Barbara Gaines, CST's production meets but does not exceed expectations.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 05:03PMThis production's all-female cast succeeds in focusing a play often seen through the lens of race quite pointedly upon gender.
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