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 09:17AMHeather 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 09:33AMIan 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 11:02AMFor 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 12:41PMPaweł 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 04:14PMWhat 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 01:21PMTo 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 12:43PMJonah 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 11:07AMWhat 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 03:07PMAppropriation, 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 11:20AMIn 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 11:00AMIn 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 12:22PMDrawing 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 […] …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:24AMGabriel (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 […] The post <…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:10PMIt’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 […] The post Abstract…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:56PMMost 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 […] The post Drawing on the …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:48AMSierra 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. …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 05:00PMLette (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 […] The po…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 04:20PMIs 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? The post Catherine Called Bir…
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 […] The post…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:54PMI have no idea how an A-list cast like this was hoodwinked into participating in this wink-wink nudge-nudge snooze fest. The post See How They Run appeared first on Chicago Reader.
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:30PM“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 […] The post…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 04:33PMI 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 […] The post A little bit bloodless appear…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:16AMChristian 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 01:52PMIt’s a small story whose roots and branches radiate in all directions. The post Let the Little Light Shine appeared first on Chicago Reader.
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 05:45PMWolfgang Amadeus Aleksandr “Aleks” Fa has a lot of baggage. The protagonist of Joe Meno’s new novel Book of Extraordinary Tragedies has that name, after all—which also serves as a cl…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 05:06PMFilmmaker Danny Cohen gave Barnett a Dictaphone and asked her to talk into it as she traversed the world on tours over three years, in support of her celebrated second album in 2018, and onw…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 04:50PMA novelist, writing professor, and covert comedian named Solomon Gladman wakes up one morning in Chicago, sometime in 2022. He and his French-born wife, Daphne Bourbon (would she be named Si…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:01PMDespite all the beautiful water, sun, and half-naked bodies, what I was left with as the credits rolled was a mere trace memory of stylish vacuity. The post Murina appeared first on Chicago …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:30AM“Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink,” Coleridge’s sailor complains in the famous 1798 poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” The mariner is talking about the plight on…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 06:58PMWith over a hundred years of the moving image at their disposal, these creative people appear at a loss how to proceed. It’s a very familiar feeling. The post Not just another remake appea…
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