Northlight Theatre’s The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk, written by Daniel Jamieson, featuring music by Ian Ross, and directed by Elizabeth Margolius, is a delightful journey of love and artistr…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:59AMAt long last, true believers, the third installment of Mark Pracht’s “Four-Color Trilogy”—The House of Ideas—is here, opening the 2024–’25 season at City Lit Theater. Following…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:21AMThe summer between graduation from high school and college, for those of us who went, was a shaky time filled with its fair share of doubt, anxiety, and questions. Meet Sam. She’s just gra…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:26PMAlex Edelman’s Just for Us is a ridiculously funny show about going to a white supremacist meeting in Queens, NY, falling for a girl, and wondering if it could work. Edelman interrogates o…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:54AM“Maybe people aren’t supposed to have their reality shattered every few years.” When a superhero known as The Titan is exiled by his arch nemesis, Dr. Fiendish, to a world without flyi…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:56PMGrab your lab coat and walk this way to Mercury Theater Chicago for Young Frankenstein, the hilarious 2007 musical with music and lyrics by the legendary Mel Brooks, based on his beloved 197…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:12AMHearken back to a simpler time—the pandemic—and join Mira, a classical violinist, and Beckett, a folk music academic, as they escape their Brooklyn apartment and head to a hootenanny in …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:23PMWax nostalgic for the pandemic shutdown as Red Theater presents the world premiere of Indoor Cats by Mora V. Harris, directed by Wyatt Kent. Meet Jules (Karylin Veres), an entitled, selfish …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:00PMNow in its 21st year, Hell in a Handbag Productions has a ridiculously hilarious new show playing at the Center on Halsted in their The Golden Girls: The Lost Episodes […] The post <i&g…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:51PMAmerican Son by Christopher Demos-Brown and directed by Tim Rhoze, now playing at the Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre in the Noyes Cultural Arts Center in Evanston, opens with a quote from Ta-Neh…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:53PMFlashbacks to Andor’s childhood seem unnecessarily added, as if someone thought an origin of an origin of an origin of Star Wars was a good idea. The post Andor appeared first on Chicago R…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 06:40PMShe-Hulk is the kind of smart, funny production that proves that like Ms. Marvel, Thor: Ragnarok, or Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel is at its best when it combines self-conscious humor with…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:00PMLike several post-pandemic shows in Chicago, the Artistic Home’s production of The Pavilion, written by Craig Wright and directed by Julian Hester, is about an intimate relationship betwee…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:13AMSing-along Selichot and shofar pop-ups: how a "radically inclusive" Jewish community celebrates in a pandemic. As a child, the High Holidays—Rosh Hashanah (the…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 09:30AMAbout Face's two-hander boasts stellar performances. Anyone who has weathered a long-term relationship will relate to the passion and struggles in About Face The…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:35PMRed Tape Theatre's production traces a woman's empowerment through role-playing. With ambitious productions that push the boundaries of subject matter, Red Tape …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 06:48PMStrawdog's production leaves a mark in this Chicago premiere. In Nick Hornby's High Fidelity, Rob Fleming asks, "What came first—the music or the misery? Do al…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMPride Films and Plays provides an emotionally engaging production of this set-in-Dublin musical. Oscar Wilde wrote "most people are other people . . . their live…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMA group of stranded space explorers confront their mortality and humanity in Sideshow's U.S. premiere. Space. The final frontier.…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMLove, music, and a little bit of crime add up to a madcap midlife caper in David Greig's comedy. Who hasn't had a weekend of drunken debauchery in Edinburgh? For…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 05:00PMTheatre Y's ambulatory production stretches over six hours and five miles—and it's worth your time and effort. In 2017, members of Chicago's Theatre Y made an …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMGuillermo Calderón’s meta soap opera toggles between farce and sincerity. There is a great deal to like about Haven's Kiss by Guillermo Calderón, directed by…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMThirty-four years later, the blockbuster musical still packs a potent political message with the melodrama. Given its blockbuster history, it may be hard to reme…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMPride Films and Plays' new musical gleefully skewers the modern gay-dating scene. Looking for a good time? One night of fun that you will likely soon forget?…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMThe evening includes five short plays written by Chicagoans. The Impostors Theatre Company wraps up its inaugural season with Footholds, an anthology of five sho…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWe waited 108 years for this? If you love the Cubs and don't see many musicals, then Miracle is the show for you. Like watching a mediocre baseball game, it's pr…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMSandra Delgado's immersive musical about a legendary 1960s Latinx nightclub is as heartfelt as ever. La Havana Madrid, Sandra Delgado's award-winning immersive m…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMA Black college student’s decision to join the Freedom Riders has unexpected consequences for his wife and friends. Eminently engaging and candid, Too Heavy fo…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMOtherworld's mashup of Greek mythology and Star Trek is campy fun. Campy and fun, Elizabeth A.M. Keel's Corona follows the voyage of the starship Corona Borealis…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMOtherworld retells the old myth from a feminist perspective. Greek myths are essentially ancient soap operas, and such is the case with Medusa Undone, which reex…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMThere is nothing like it onstage anywhere else in Chicago. When you enter the Chopin Theatre for The Ruse of Medusa, it may sound like a half-dozen wild monkeys …
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