Fat Theatre Project makes an exuberant debut with The InterPlays, an anthology of short plays celebrating and untangling the enigma of love. Founded by Eileen Tull in early 2024, Fat Theat…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 09:52AMAn attic is a blank canvas for artistic expression and endless imagination in the Impostors Theatre Company’s Footholds Vol. 5. This is the fifth installment of the annual anthology seri…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:52PMInvictus Theatre Company’s production of Suzan-Lori Parks’s Topdog/Underdog is gripping from start to finish. Since being abandoned by their parents as teens, brothers Lincoln (Mikha’e…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:50AMFrom 1969 to 1973, a Chicago-based organization known by the code name “Jane” brought safe and accessible abortions to more than 10,000 women. Paula Kamen’s Jane: Abortion and the Unde…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:00AMIn the world premiere of MIA: Where Have All the Young Girls Gone?, writer and director Mary Bonnett uses interviews and research to illuminate the crisis of missing young women in the Unite…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:35PMIn the musical stage adaptation of Mo Willems’s Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (book by Willems and Mr. Warburton, music by Deborah Wicks La Puma, and lyrics by Willems), a down-on-…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:51AMAfter earning rave reviews during its Chicago premiere last year, Matthew Lombardo’s provocative take on a holiday classic makes a triumphant return to Theater Wit. Who’s Holiday follows…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:23PMIn Cat McKay’s queer comedy Plaid as Hell, Cass (Reagan James) hopes that a weekend away in the Wisconsin woods will be a fitting opportunity for her best friend Emilie […] The post Cabi…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:23AMWhat is an artist’s relationship to their art? The complexities of that question form the central story in Franco-Uruguayan playwright Sergio Blanco’s Tebas Land, now appearing under the…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 04:09PMThe Chicago Children’s Theatre’s 18th season kicks off with Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About a Terrible Monster, an innovative production from the Emmy Award-winning multimedia performan…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:52PMThe Chicago premiere of David Alex’s sociopolitical drama ENDS, directed by Davette J. Franklin, follows two men who represent conflicting visions of life in America. Set in 1967, the stor…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:25AMThe Chicago premiere of British playwright Chris Woodley’s Tommy on Top, now playing at Pride Arts Center, is a witty farce that elevates crucial questions about representation and authent…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:11AMIn the Chicago premiere of Sarah Treem’s When We Were Young and Unafraid with AstonRep, a group of multitudinous women navigate domesticity, violence, and identity in a cultural landscape …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 04:29PMThe virtual exhibit reached beyond Chicago to battleground states in the upcoming election. In planning for its 2020 season, Weinberg/Newton Gallery owner and ex…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 01:10PMThis year's virtual festival of plays breaks through our global isolation. When Patrizia Acerra founded the International Voices Project in 2010, she sought to c…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 05:05PMD.C. Fidler's drama about the lingering psychic wounds of war makes its local debut with Ohio-based None Too Fragile Theatre. Two soldiers of different generatio…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMA daughter struggles to reconnect with her estranged activist father in Dominique Morisseau's drama. Nina (Jazzma Pryor) and her estranged father, Kenyatta (Marc…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMA young woman struggles with heartbreak and disconnection. L M Feldman's Grace, or the Art of Climbing is a character-driven exploration of the world of competit…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMIt also offers a sharp critique of the British political system. When W. Somerset Maugham's British war drama For Services Rendered premiered in 1932, it offered…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMWe can't worry about odd couple roommates until we know how much danger they're in. Below the Belt, written by Richard Dresser and presented by Hundo4u Productio…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMWhen Almanya Narula enrolled in graduate school at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she wanted to find a way to bring her passions for journalism and theater together to tell stor…
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