Tuesday, October 18, 2022
OLD MEN DO NOT FORGET Peter Gill’s new play has a melancholy beauty about it; it’s a sort of poem as the veteran playwright and director engages with age, regret and m…
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Thursday, October 13, 2022
THE PROFESSORIAL ROAD TO HELL David Tennant is a fastidious actor. That sounds negative, prim perhaps, but in fact expresses why his performance in C.P.Taylor’s extraordinary play …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:04PMEliza Doolittle’s sparkling dress is one of 100 items that celebrate ‘transformative power’ of musicals
Weighed down by diamante, rhinestones, pearls, crystal beads, sequins and long, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:19AMWednesday, October 12, 2022
A HARLEM TRAVIATA Three in the morning and Angel the showgirl is raring , glitterimg drunk “if you caint be drunk in Harlem..” she slurs furiously. Her friend Guy brought her home, an…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:31AMIf you’re interested in queer Chicago history, you’ll definitely want to check this out: At 6 PM, Sidetrack (3349 N. Halsted) is celebrating the release of Last Call Chicago: A […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:02AMTuesday, October 11, 2022
Gossip Wolf has been hip to Chicago rapper and singer Angelenah, aka Ashley Hart and Angel Davanport, ever since she released the 2018 EP Sore but Grateful. She’s been sharpening […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:25PMMonday, October 10, 2022
RETURN OF A WILD AND QUESTIONING PLAY This is the return of Robert Icke’s modern version of Schnitzler’s 1912 play – details below, as laid out in part of my original Almeida r…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:07AMSunday, October 9, 2022
Palmer Square Art Fair and Queer Social Club are teaming up to debut Queer Art Party at Sleeping Village (3734 W. Belmont). From noon-5 PM, vibe out to queer art, […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:50AMSaturday, October 8, 2022
Head to the basement and grab those Super 8 films Grandpa shot at the forest preserve picnic: it’s Chicago Home Movie Day. Chicago Film Archives and the Chicago Film Society […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:58AMFriday, October 7, 2022
Today kicks off the American Indian Center’s 69th Annual Chicago Powwow, which runs through Sunday (10/9). From 10 AM-6 PM each day, thousands will gather at Schiller Woods (events in [……
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:01PMA WARNING FOR ALL TIMES This is the big one. It’s the National Theatre at its strongest: unapologetic, classic, unsparing, gripping, impassioned. Here’s the heavy art…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:17AMThursday, October 6, 2022
Today is the final day for the online portion of this year’s Reeling: the Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival. The 40th annual celebration of LGBTQ+ filmmakers and new queer cinema …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 04:59PMTHERAPISTS AS HUMANS Georgina Burns is a trained and experienced NHS therapist, now with Hampstead support a playwright. So, unlike most other writers tempted by the theatricality of…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:34PMThe soul singer plays Emmeline Pankhurst in Sylvia, a hip-hop musical returning to the Old Vic
The story of the suffragettes is a “metaphor for so many things going on right now” includi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:19AMWednesday, October 5, 2022
A MODEST AND REMORSEFUL SELF-REBUKE There’s a curious outbreak of reparations going on. The Old Vic, which binned Into the Woods in outrage at Terry Gilliam’s reportedly inc…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:48PMLast October, musician and curator Emily Beisel began booking the monthly Pleiades Series at Elastic Arts, which centers femme and nonbinary performers—and they follow their sets with impr…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:18PMMagician Paige Thompson takes over the artist-in-residence slot at Chicago Magic Lounge (5050 N. Clark) with her show A Paige in Time, opening tonight at 7 PM and running Wednesdays […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:16AMTuesday, October 4, 2022
It’s the first Tuesday of the month, which means that Reader senior writer Ben Joravsky and former Reader staffer Maya Dukmasova host their monthly live interview show at the Hideout […]…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 06:43PMA GOTHIC SORROW IN OLD BOSTON When you say you’re off to a Suffolk village hall to see a tiny company – best known for its mini-pantos – doing a dramatised tribute to Edgar Allan Po…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:23AMMonday, October 3, 2022
Significant issues remain around police use of involuntary commitments.
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:17PMSunday, October 2, 2022
Today is the final day of the Chicago Vintage Fall Fest (19th and Blue Island), an outdoor gathering of vendors, music, and more, happening from noon-8 PM. Fabulous Freddies Italian […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:43PMSaturday, October 1, 2022
Gerber/Hart is partnering with the Leather Museum (6418 N. Greenview) for a free screening of AIDS Diva: The Legend of Connie Norman. Connie Norman was a trans woman who advocated […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:17AMFriday, September 30, 2022
Artist Khaaliq Haneef closes out his debut solo show, “The Devious Mind of Khaaliq Haneef” with Sounds & S’mores, an open mike at the Lawndale Pop-Up Spot (1408 S. Central […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:48PMAMBITION , DISGRACE, RUIN, WOMEN Heavy footfalls pace overhead, enervating, raising anxiety. Anna Fleischle’s galleried grey set is half Scandi-minimo-chic, half penitentiary. Downstairs…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:44AMThursday, September 29, 2022
The TRiiBE investigates what’s going on behind the lies.
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:01PMSpooky season is upon us, and what a more uncomfortable way to celebrate than with dolls. Through November 6, the Chicago History Museum (1601 N. Clark) presents “Haunted Dolls & […]…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:51AMGLORIOUS AS EVER Millions know it by now, but in case like my enthralled companions last night you aren’t among them, grant me a moment or skip the the penultimate paragraph…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:08AMWednesday, September 28, 2022
Chicago’s hospitality community comes together tonight to raise funds and awareness for those affected by Hurricane Fiona with the curated tasting event Chicago Chefs Cook for Puerto Rico.…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:08PMWISHFUL DELUSIONS IN A MIDDLE AGED DOLDRUM Susan finds herself in mid-life with a dull clerical husband (Nigel Lindsay really enjoying it) , obsessed with his dreary parish history pamphle…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:23PMTuesday, September 27, 2022
The term “world music” has never been adequate to the task we’ve set it—even in its most benign reading, it implies a division between the listener and the rest of […]
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