Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Rena 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 07:00AMMonday, November 4, 2019
The 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 09:45AMWednesday, October 30, 2019
The 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 07:00AMMonday, October 28, 2019
Both spoken and signed, this production plays its source material twice, spotlighting the disturbing ventriloquism of romantic relationships.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 02:30PMWednesday, October 23, 2019
Khecari'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 07:00AMTuesday, October 22, 2019
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Shakespeare'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 07:00AMWednesday, October 2, 2019
The 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.
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SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, September 25, 2019
At 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 07:00AMMonday, September 23, 2019
Court Theatre continues to strengthen its reputation as the premiere destination for August Wilson work with this latest production.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:15PMWednesday, September 18, 2019
His 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 07:00AMWednesday, September 11, 2019
Gregory 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 09:00PMWednesday, August 21, 2019
A spinal injury led Joanna Furnans to an autobiographical solo dance exploring the minute.
Minute movement. Mundane moments.…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, August 7, 2019
Fleetwood-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 07:00AMWednesday, July 24, 2019
Alistair 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 07:00AMWednesday, July 17, 2019
Windy 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 07:00AMMonday, July 8, 2019
This production of Shakespeare's patriarchal anxiety dream finds truth in jest.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:15PMTuesday, June 11, 2019
It 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 06:00PMWednesday, June 5, 2019
Adult 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 07:00AMMonday, June 3, 2019
Choreographer 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 01:27PMWednesday, May 22, 2019
But 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 07:00AMThursday, May 16, 2019
Eifman 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 02:30PMTuesday, May 7, 2019
Of 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 04:00PMWednesday, May 1, 2019
The 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 12:00PMMonday, April 29, 2019
Directed by Barbara Gaines, CST's production meets but does not exceed expectations.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 05:03PMWednesday, April 24, 2019
This production's all-female cast succeeds in focusing a play often seen through the lens of race quite pointedly upon gender.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AMThursday, April 18, 2019
“He was Mick Jagger before Mick Jagger.”
He moved with a feral grace, with a heat that blazes through the grain of the film that remains, with a virtuosity t…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMWednesday, April 17, 2019
The cast brings the group of dance hopefuls to life.
On a bare stage, a sea of spandex roils, shining with that 1970s luster. A director calls out counts and ste…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMThursday, April 11, 2019
Race is just a trading card.
Joshua Harmon's 2018 Admissions opens in an administrative office at Hillcrest, an elite prep school in New Hampshire, where two blo…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AM 
