Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Adapting stage to screen poses many problems. There’s usually something leaden and, uh, stagey about making a movie of a play; witness how few watchable Shakespeare films there are. They�…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 04:34PMWednesday, June 26, 2024
Wai (Wai Yim) is the flamboyant, brash host of a YouTube show called Hornyscope; David (Hansel Tan) is his buttoned-up friend, who works as a teacher but wants to be an actor. Both men are f…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:12PMWednesday, May 1, 2024
A tormented young man is visited by the ghost of his recently slain father, who asks the son to avenge his death at the hands of his own brother—who, to add insult to injury, has taken his…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:33PMThursday, March 21, 2024
Evan Jackson directs and co-adapts (with Tristan Brandon) a new version of Idle Muse’s 2009 reoriented riff on “the Scottish play.” Told from the point of view of three young sisters a…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:57PMTuesday, January 23, 2024
Trap Door Theatre kicks off its 30th season with a bang—or, perhaps more accurately, a ceaseless volley of cannon fire—presenting the mother of all anti-war plays. On a sparse stage deco…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:04PMThursday, December 7, 2023
Clare Brennan directs Savannah Reich’s 2017 silly/smart comedy about the dawn of civilization—and the audience gets to decide how it works out in the end. Dandelion (Tess Galbiati) and R…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:15AMThursday, September 28, 2023
Set in a place that is equal parts dystopian disco and minimal sci-fi torture dungeon (set and costumes designed by Natasha Djukic), Zeljko Djukic directs Adam Ranđelović’s adaptation fr…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 09:17AMThursday, September 14, 2023
Heather Currie directs John Hildreth’s laugh-a-minute adaptation Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut’s satire about the U.S. nuclear program and all-around ignorant hubris. The story is told i…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 09:33AMWednesday, July 19, 2023
Ian Damont Martin directs the world premiere of Nathan Alan Davis’s post-everything meta intergalactic meditation on what it’s all about. Akwasi (David Goodloe)—on a bare stage save fo…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:02AMWednesday, July 12, 2023
For Midsommer Flight’s tenth annual production of free Shakespeare in Chicago’s parks, the company has chosen as shaggy a dog story as the Bard had in his quiver. In ancient Britain, Pri…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:41PMWednesday, May 24, 2023
Paweł Świątek directs the U.S. premiere of Dorota Masłowska’s arch 70s-era murder mystery/comedy of manners (translated by Soren Gauger). Rumors fly wild in the streets of Warsaw about…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 04:14PMWednesday, May 17, 2023
What can you say in ten minutes? If the ten examples in the Gift’s triumphant return production of its long-running series are any indication, anything and everything. Ten 2023 Through 5…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:21PMWednesday, April 26, 2023
To break in their new North Lawndale space, Kezia Waters directs Theatre Y’s production of Jackie Sibblies Drury’s 2012 meta meditation on colonialism, genocide, and racial trauma. (The …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:43PMSaturday, April 15, 2023
Jonah Saesan and LanDis Frederick are veterans of two different branches of the U.S. armed forces. After being discharged in 2015, they started processing their experiences in the military t…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:07AMThursday, March 23, 2023
What does material success look like to young people in 2023? Is it possible to attain the lifestyle they see in 80s TV shows? Is that something to aspire to? A talented Neo-Futurist troupe …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:07PMThursday, February 9, 2023
Appropriation, wordplay, riffs on news headlines, improv skits, and a grab bag of absurdist tropes get thrown in a hat to very uneven ends in Curious Theatre Branch’s set of four half-hour…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:20AMFriday, January 27, 2023
In a world . . . where Norse mythology meets prog rock on a set seemingly built by precocious middle-schoolers, brothers Jorik and Jarl battle one another and several deities (best known to …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:00AMWednesday, January 18, 2023
In Witold Gombrowicz’s fictional kingdom of Burgundia, the royal court is bored. One day Prince Phillip (Keith Surney) and his consort, Simon (Gus Thomas) happen upon Ivona (Laura Nelson),…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:22PMWednesday, November 9, 2022
Drawing from a well that’s 500 years old and who knows how deep takes nerve. Yet that’s what Laughing Stock attempts with this contemporary take on commedia dell’arte. You could […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:24AMWednesday, October 19, 2022
Gabriel (Dominick Vincent Alesia) and Emmett (Lucas Matteson) are strangers in a strange land. Robbed and left out in the middle of nowhere after a bar brawl with a biker […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:10PMFriday, October 7, 2022
It’s rare for me to be surprised by a painting show, but I didn’t see “Taking Shape” coming. The exhibition is a generous survey of abstract art made from the […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:56PMTuesday, October 4, 2022
Most people are lucky to have one act that hits. William Horberg is well into his third. Horberg was born in Chicago and grew up around Belmont and Broadway in […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:48AMFriday, September 30, 2022
Sierra Pettengill’s disquieting documentary uses only archival footage shot by the military and clips from period news coverage to explore this uncanny episode in the country’s history.
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 05:00PMWednesday, September 28, 2022
Lette (Dennis Bisto) assumes that since he’s the inventor of his company’s latest product, he’ll be the one to present it at the big upcoming corporate event. But then his […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 04:20PMThursday, September 22, 2022
Is it a good message to send young girls that they can be bad and do what they want for a little while but when the rubber hits the road they must toe the line?
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 06:40PMWestley Heine never dreamed of singing for change on the streets of Chicago but life sometimes offers only stark choices. Getting by as a musician, artist, or writer is uphill […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:54PMMonday, September 19, 2022
I have no idea how an A-list cast like this was hoodwinked into participating in this wink-wink nudge-nudge snooze fest.
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:30PMThursday, September 15, 2022
“The people who pick up flyers and show up to free classes tend to be restless searchers,” John tells his students, after remarking that there must be something wrong with […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 04:33PMWednesday, August 31, 2022
I love Dracula. I’ve loved him ever since a Saturday afternoon in the late 70s or early 80s when I saw Bela Lugosi portray him on TV as part of […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:16AMWednesday, August 24, 2022
Christian Alexander is the writer and co-star of this world premiere production from his brand-new company, Campfire Repertory Theatre. James (Keith Ferguson) and Michelle (Ashley Graham) co…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:52PMFriday, August 12, 2022
It’s a small story whose roots and branches radiate in all directions.
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