A musical about the darkest days of AIDS shows its student-effort roots, but provides a stirring score. A little more than two decades ago, composer Cindy O'Conn…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMThe stakes are too low in this musical about the life span of a gay relationship. Three versions of lovers Daniel and Greg—in their 20s, 30s, and "50s and olde…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMAmerican Blues Theater’s production finds some honesty amid the musical cliches. Boy, oh boy, the residents of tiny Gilead, Wisconsin, need some hope. Good thi…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMThe gears keep spinning, but we never get anywhere. I suppose it would be difficult not to make a mechanical engine the central metaphor of any play about Ada By…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMOdd's Bodkins has created a highly idiosyncratic production steeped in quirky earnestness. Dungeons & Dragons' 45-year history has had its volatile moments. …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMGus Menary's ensemble transforms Kenneth Lin's mechanical script into a warm, nuanced production. Playwright Kenneth Lin's got nothing on Frank Capra. In this ga…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMIt should be a trainwreck, but it's not, just so long as you put your intellect on hold. A stranger walks up to you. They know your name, where you've been, wher…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMThere's not enough room in this scattershot world for ideas to deepen. Eugène Ionesco's Killing Game, first produced in 1970, will always be relevant—which pa…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMSteven Dietz's historical drama starts strong but gets "tangled up in roads." Unhelpfully prolific American playwright Steven Dietz never met a promising idea he…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMIt provides all the answers to the central dilemma that you'd expect. Red Theater has achieved its admirable goal to "ask dangerous questions theatrically" in th…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AM"If you want something," they sing, "keep your hands on it." Based on S.R. Bindler's 1997 documentary of the same name, this 2012 Broadway musical focuses on an …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMKarim Nagi takes his audience on a tour of the Arab world beyond Aladdin. At the beginning of this discursive one-man show, a Silk Road Rising/Stage Left coprodu…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMBut Greg Keller’s script takes way too long to get there. In his 2018 one-act, actor and writer Greg Keller creates a relationship between two young men so poi…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMAs a performer, comedian Dave Maher is a high-concept mischief-maker. During his recent six-week stint at the Annoyance, he spent one night intentionally shirking his responsibilities, setti…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:19PMIn Detroit, Lisa D'Amour pulls back where she should push.
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