Thursday, May 28, 2020
Three streaming productions give us plenty to ponder in the pandemic.
The world of quarantine is paradoxical, with our immediate environments smaller and more co…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 01:45PMWednesday, May 27, 2020
With VALHA11A, they've created their first online LARP.
Role-playing games and theater seem so closely aligned that it’s surprising more companies haven’t fu…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 11:30AMTuesday, May 12, 2020
Sanctuary in Place! and Isolated prove you don't need a big top.
Flying high and fearlessly in front of awestruck spectators is what circus is all about, right? …
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:20PMWednesday, April 29, 2020
Instructors adapt to online comedy and improv courses.
When the Upright Citizens Brigade announced that it was closing its training center and theater in Manhatt…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 12:10PMTuesday, April 21, 2020
Virtual classes and activities keep the theater bug alive for young artists.
With schools in Illinois closed for the remainder of the year, families may be scram…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 04:10PMTuesday, April 14, 2020
Online theater pieces, both new and old, remind us to connect.
When you’re used to seeing at least three or four shows a week at the theater, adjusting to onli…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:15PMRelationships and 'yes, and' guide HMS Media's approach to filming live shows.
If COVID-19 hadn't shuttered all the theaters in town about a month ago, Scott Sil…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 06:35PMMonday, April 6, 2020
Arts for Illinois offers short-term assistance. Will it have long-term implications for funding?
It came in waves last month. At first, we had a trickle of annou…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 12:55PMFriday, March 27, 2020
The best online options for enjoying theater from local, national, and international companies
I'm compiling this list of online theater options on World Theatre…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 04:00PMThursday, March 26, 2020
From Warp! to Re-Animator, Gordon told the stories he wanted to see his way.
When current mystery novelist and former Reader theater critic Lenny Kleinfeld (aka …
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 03:30PMTuesday, March 24, 2020
Steven Strafford's solo remains honest and hilarious, even through a screen.
Steven Strafford was supposed to be live onstage at Berwyn’s 16th Street Theater t…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 05:15PMFriday, March 20, 2020
Theater Wit's production about a disabled schemer carries on online.
I spend more evenings than most people in the dark with other people, watching yet other peo…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 03:15PMSaturday, March 14, 2020
Where to find the latest information on how companies and venues are responding to the pandemic
What a difference a couple of days makes. On Tuesday, the League …
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 02:50PMTuesday, March 10, 2020
Sarah Ruhl examines old-fashioned female "hysteria" and newfangled treatments.
Imagine Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" crossed with…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 05:20PMLookingglass delivers a stunning world premiere about Chicago's first woman mayor, public housing, and race.
"This ain't Walter Lee Younger's Chicago no more," d…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 04:55PMFriday, March 6, 2020
Court Theatre's revival puts us in the center of ancient artifacts and contemporary conundrums.
"Rage—Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus’ son Achilles," begins…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 05:40PMThursday, March 5, 2020
Maria Dizzia talks about playing Heidi Schreck, high school debate, and the power of the 14th Amendment.
Heidi Schreck's 2017 play What the Constitution Means to…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 02:20PMTuesday, March 3, 2020
Lifeline's staging of Charles Johnson's novel has sea legs.
Lighting out for the territory, as Huck Finn put it, may be central to the American dream of liberty,…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00PMErika L. Sánchez's novel gets a stellar stage life in Isaac Gómez's adaptation.
There is a moment in I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter where Amá (Charín…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 06:45PMTuesday, February 25, 2020
Actors Gymnasium combines circus arts and a poignant story of aging in their annual winter show.
Actors Gymnasium primarily functions as a training school in the…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 06:50PMFriday, February 21, 2020
How to Defend Yourself and Do You Feel Anger? ask us to consider how to survive patriarchy without losing our minds—and bodies.
The fish has rotted from the he…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 02:00PMTuesday, February 18, 2020
A wealthy Black family confronts secrets and internalized self-loathing in Lydia Diamond's acerbic drama.
In 2017, First Floor Theater premiered Leah Nanako Wink…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 06:15PMLorraine Hansberry's classic gets a sturdy and heartfelt revival.
Before Ta-Nehisi Coates laid out "The Case for Reparations" in the Atlantic in 2014, Lorraine H…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 05:50PMAguijón's U.S. premiere of Sergio Blanco's Cherry Orchard update is dark and chilly.
Anton Chekhov's famous dictum that if a gun is introduced in the first act,…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 05:20PMWednesday, February 12, 2020
This musical take on Austen's oft-adapted tale skims the surface.
With Autumn de Wilde's new film version of Jane Austen's Emma being released next week (the sev…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 04:50PMTuesday, February 11, 2020
Theatre Above the Law produces an Elaine May deep cut.
The Boys in the Band at Windy City Playhouse isn't the only 1960s counterculture show in town. Theatre Abo…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00PMThursday, February 6, 2020
Bertie Wooster isn't the dimmest bulb onstage in First Folio's Wodehouse romp.
If your patience with upper-class twits being bailed out by their underlings is th…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 02:15PMTuesday, February 4, 2020
A self-defense class reveals hidden vulnerabilities in Liliana Padilla's world premiere.
Last summer, Selina Fillinger's drama Something Clean asked us to consid…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:40PMTuesday, January 28, 2020
Isaac Gomez's world premiere at Steep takes us over the border of trauma and truth.
If you're in the mood for some serious decolonizing after the Jeanine Cummins…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 04:10PMThursday, January 23, 2020
Winter theater and dance in Chicago provides a home away from home.
On nights when the temperature falls into single digits and icy sidewalks (clear that stuff, …
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 06:00PMOn nights when the temperature falls into single digits and icy sidewalks (clear that stuff, people!) make the public way treacherous, it's easy to find reasons to stay home.
But the month…
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