I saw Red Tape Theatre's The Shipment with two companions and we left the theater asking each other, What was the author saying?” This play, written by Young Jean Lee, a Korean-American pl…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 05:48PMAbbey Fenbert’s play Sickle at Red Theater is important as it brings to light another horror of a different kind of war, an unwanted assimilation of an entire country’s population and pr…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 06:04PMThrowback Thursday review - Lights! Action! Music! With that beginning, Carole King (played by local actress Sarah Bockel) takes us on a musical ride through her life, highs and lows, wins a…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 06:06PMAlice Childress's classic play Wedding Band, a tragic love story of interracial love set in 1918 South Carolina, is marvelously done, the cast doing a superb job of employing the dialect of …
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 03:12PMHeavens is a powerful play, wonderfully cast, brilliantly directed, beautifully played by an outstanding ensemble of talented actors. It centers around a pivotal period of the Civil War in 1…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 06:18PMMichael Washington Brown opens his evening with a question to the audience - Why am I now African-American when for so many years, I’ve been Black? From there, listening in rapt attention…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 06:33PMRagtime comprises an era, a jumble of hopes and dreams, energetic music, disasters, collisions , and a story of love, hope and tragedy. Its host, Griffin Theatre, is an ensemble of talented …
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 11:54PMGreat gifts can come in small packages. Likewise, great plays can come in small theaters. UrbanTheater Company's Water & Power is one of those great gifts. A tale of two brothers, non-i…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 04:06PMThe holidays can be a hectic time, but thankfully Silk Road Rising offers some respite in the diminutive and lively persona of Christine Bunuan, who guides you through her world-premiere one…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 05:18PMFor 15 years, American Blues Theater has treated Chicago audiences to a live 1940s radio broadcast of holiday favorite, It’s a Wonderful Life. The show is always a timely and entertaining …
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 03:12PMThe goal of world-premiere [Trans]formation, co-produced and co-developed by Nothing Without A Company and The Living Campus, was to celebrate the diversity of identity, to have the spectato…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 02:42PMFilled with fights, shipwrecks, mutiny and requited love, Rutherford’s Travels resembles an action movie. Based on the award-winning novel *Middle Passage* by Charles Johnson, the play was…
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