MPAACT's campus drama pushes some hot buttons, but casts an ugly pall. Playwright and MPAACT founding member Shepsu Aakhu was inspired to write this campus sexua…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 05:15PMPolitical prisoners swallow their pride (and maybe some poison) in Rivendell's world premiere. The gulags in Meghan Brown's world-premiere dystopian fable, The T…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:50PMA brutal homophobic assault tests the love between two women in Diana Son's drama. To be queer and in love in a 90s play is a pitiable fate. At best, characters …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:25PMCall him “bone dry” if you must, but don't call him “alt.” The laid-back, unassuming, eminently cool aesthetic of Pilsen's Thalia Hall is such a harmonio…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 05:50PMBlank Theatre Company shows off some chops in this Rupert Holmes musical. One of the easier riddles to solve in Rupert Holmes's 1985 musical comedy is why so few…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 06:40PMThe unconventional family structures of 19th-century mining camps widen the lens for LGBTQ history. Neither Tom Selleck nor Steve Guttenberg nor Ted Danson have …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 06:00PMScott Bradley's solo show for About Face creates an important document of queer life. Living out and proud in a coastal queer mecca full of historic gayborhoods,…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 05:50PMThe songs are strong, but the story needs work in this new musical about depression. In David Gosz and Leo Fotos's clinically subtitled new show, Tru: A Musical …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 01:00PMPart hangout, part celebration, part theater of the mind, live podcast recordings are a performance medium all their own. Sometime next month, Action Boyz podca…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:15PMA ghost-town saloon sets the stage for this zombie-spaghetti western hybrid. Open up any horror auteur's toolbox, and you'll likely see some recurring devices: t…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMHell in a Handbag's spoof of Mrs. Garrett and 21 Jump Street is far from a drag. As luck would have it, the most expedient way to describe vanguard camp comic an…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMMixing the Bard up with the Gunpowder Plot doesn't help Bill Cain's play ignite dramatically. The setup to Bill Cain's revisionist Shakespearean fairy tale is th…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMLifeline's revival of this 2002 Dorothy Sayers adaptation could use more breathing room to fully come alive. Lifeline Theatre's stage has been something of a hom…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMThe snake-haired Gorgon gets a narrative makeover in this touring devised piece. Despite sporting the most recognizable hairdo in all of literature, general know…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMThe sight gags score, but the music falls short in this spoof/homage of the Wachowskis’ sci-fi classic. Ready to feel old? The Matrix—a movie that, upon its …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMA comedian requests a roast in lieu of a wake in Harry Wood’s debut play. In lieu of a traditional funeral service, a young comedian asks for a livestreamed, n…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWhen Joan Jett Blakk told us to lick Bush in '92 Neon shades of violet—not rainbows—radiate from Tarell Alvin McCraney and Tina Landau's world-premiere docu-…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 05:00PMBureaucracy, sweet bureaucracy! Despite having one of the most radical and inspiring biographies of any theater artist, playwright-turned- prisoner-turned-Czech …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMWhy do people always turn into sneering jackasses during dinner parties in plays? A group of politically engaged Chicago north siders gets together for a casual …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMThankfully, the plot and performances become more compelling halfway through. Ross Compton’s world premiere one-act dramedy ends as a wholly different play tha…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMThe drumming is fun, but the corporate-speak is not. Everything about Djembe! The Show starts to make more sense when you imagine it out of its current context�…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMNew Colony's production dances around juicy subjects without fully committing to any of them. Three Disney World cast members find themselves trapped in the smol…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AM"No one ever wrote a fairy tale about polyamory!" Inclusion of full and frequent nudity is so vital to the gay throuple drama Afterglow that, according to playwr…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AM“If you’re doing something associated with puppetry in Chicago, you have to think about Blair.” If anybody knows puppets—like really knows puppets—it'…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMSarah Ruhl’s contemporary farce crosses the line from self-awareness to self-parody. Playwright Sarah Ruhl is on the record as not loving the words "quirky" or…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWhere true confessions meet Texas history and Phil Collins trivia It's a dubious honorific, but the press release for Nick Hart's metatheatrical, deadpan, quirkt…
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