Friday, July 3, 2020
Chicago’s 21c Museum Hotel reopens with “This We Believe.”
A stone's throw from the kitsch and luxe of the Magnificent Mile, in a north-facing window on O…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 11:50AMThursday, July 2, 2020
Social distancing can't stop the beat for this beloved Chicago festival.
Summer in the city usually means sultry nights of outdoor picnics, plays and concerts ga…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 01:30PMMonday, May 18, 2020
Space, perspective, and introversion feature thematically in new online dance pieces.
On March 12, the dancers of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago were onstage prepa…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 06:30PMTuesday, May 5, 2020
Dancing Under Quarantine honors resilience and creativity.
Founded five years ago and recipient of a 2019 Ruth Page Award, the Chicago Dance History Project has …
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Two Reader critics talk about digital dance and theater—and other COVID-19 challenges.
On April 8, several organizations came together for a "Chicago Performin…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 04:15PMThursday, April 2, 2020
Dancers figure out how to create in isolation.
Dances are made in time and space, a minute or an hour in a dancer’s life never to be seen again. Dances do not …
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 08:25PMMonday, March 30, 2020
Hubbard Street's management blames COVID-19, but Conte and others raise questions.
A studio, in its essence, is nothing more than an empty room.…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 09:35AMTuesday, March 17, 2020
Tennessee Williams's oft-revised story delivers to arresting effect with Theatre L'Acadie.
"Having the necessary arrogance to assume that a failed production of …
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00PMTuesday, March 3, 2020
Gift Theatre brings a dark fable to life.
Once upon a time, in a room that looked like a fifth-grade classroom after a firebombing followed by an era of mildew, …
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:15PMThursday, February 27, 2020
Ten performance picks to blow you away this month
Theater (Kerry Reid)
What the Constitution Means to Me
Heidi Schreck's Tony-nominated play, in which the playwr…
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A new work at the Auditorium combines Irish and African American dance traditions.
In the 19th century, amid social unrest, crime, and infectious disease in the …
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 04:10PMTuesday, February 18, 2020
Electric performances heat up a Joffrey program that could use more coherence.
Antarctica has hit a record high temperature. Sixty thousand known cases of the ne…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 12:30PMWednesday, January 29, 2020
Our critics suggest ten ways to fill out that slightly longer calendar this month.
Theater (Kerry Reid) Sophisticated Ladies…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 05:30PMTuesday, January 28, 2020
Kimberly Bartosik/daela make their Chicago debut.
In 2017, when choreographer and former Merce Cunningham dancer Kimberly Bartosik began working on I Hunger for …
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 05:00PMMonday, January 27, 2020
The characters in Sean Graney's production of Agatha Christie's delicious whodunit slowly come undone like so much hard candy.
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Frank Lloyd Wright's recently restored “good-time place” provides a divine backdrop for Winifred Haun and Dancers.
No entrance greets the eye at the intersec…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 05:30PMMonday, January 20, 2020
Playwright C.A. Johnson's world of civil war, bombs, looting, gangs and starvation is hardly fictional. It is practically here.
Linked From www.newcitystage.com at 02:00PMFriday, December 20, 2019
Clare Barron's drama delivers flagrantly graceless dancing, but heartstopping truths.
The curtain never rises on Clare Barron's ferocious, Pulitzer-finalist play…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 08:00PMBreak the hibernation habit with some hot choices onstage.
THEATER PICKS (KERRY REID) Whisper House…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 05:30PMTuesday, December 17, 2019
The best moments in dance this year focused on the power of community.
In the mad scene in Akram Khan's Giselle for the English National Ballet at the Harris The…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:15PMThe longtime Chicago dancer and labor lawyer turns Nutcracker revenues into new initiatives.
For most, the holidays mean food, family, festivities, and fits of r…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 05:00PMMonday, December 16, 2019
By the end of this melodious but ultimately vapid production you too might feel as if you've been kicked in the head.
Linked From www.newcitystage.com at 11:00AMTuesday, November 19, 2019
Based in Australia, the company fuses contemporary dance with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander traditions.
Bangarra Dance Theatre of Australia makes its Chi…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 05:53PMMonday, November 18, 2019
A contemporary and timeless vision from the premiere source for classical Greek theater.
Linked From www.newcitystage.com at 02:00PMTuesday, November 12, 2019
Tango 21 Dance Theater's cabaret show lacks narrative sophistication.
Originating on the streets of Argentina, filtered through European high society, blending A…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 06:05PMLucky Plush's new ensemble piece uses the roller rink as a metaphor for community.
Ah, the roller rink—a community center where everyone keeps moving in circle…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 04:45PMMonday, November 11, 2019
Directed by Mary Zimmerman, this ardent and wide-eyed holiday show returns, albeit with at least one noteworthy blind spot.
Linked From www.newcitystage.com at 09:00AMWednesday, November 6, 2019
Rena Butler explores otherness and adaptation to new spaces in her contribution to Hubbard Street's Forge Forward program.
This week, Hubbard Street Dance Chicag…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMMonday, November 4, 2019
The characters in Jake Heggie's 2000 opera acquire charisma through the unhappiness of their situations and the obsessions that drive them.
Linked From www.newcitystage.com at 09:45AMWednesday, October 30, 2019
The choreographer's duets about changing partners takes over the Art Institute's Trading Room.
On the northeasternmost edge of the Art Institute of Chicago, wher…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMMonday, October 28, 2019
Both spoken and signed, this production plays its source material twice, spotlighting the disturbing ventriloquism of romantic relationships.
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