Wednesday, February 22, 2023
Dominick Alesia's original musical, now in a world premiere with the Impostors under Stefan Roseen's direction, follows a young girl, Amelia, as she searches through a country shattered by w…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:17PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 15, 2023
Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's musical Into the Woods premiered three years before Robert Bly's Iron John sent men into the wilderness as part of the "mythopoetic men's movement," compl…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:16PM[SHARE]This past fall, TimeLine offered a blistering revival of Alice Childress's Trouble in Mind, in which a Black actress in a 1950s Broadway play about lynching (penned and directed by white men…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:50PM[SHARE]Friday, February 10, 2023
Like theater, baseball has no set time clock by which the action must unfold. It takes as long as it takes to finish the nine innings. That can lead to longueurs, or it can raise the stakes.…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:39AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 2, 2023
Every time I hear someone describe Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights as a "romance," I die a little inside. It's a portrait of dysfunction, abuse, codependency, and revenge. Which, sure, I…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:07AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 1, 2023
Valerie Solanas shot Andy Warhol on June 3, 1968, out of anger that he wouldn't produce her play/manifesto Up Your Ass. Sirhan Sirhan shot Robert F. Kennedy on June 5, 1968, out of anger at …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:40PM[SHARE]Friday, January 27, 2023
Christina Anderson's luminous and wise the ripple, the wave that carried me home (now at the Goodman in a coproduction with Berkeley Rep, where it played in fall 2022) unfolds in mesmerizing…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 21, 2022
First Folio Theatre planned to produce the world premiere of Heather Chrisler's adaptation of Little Women back in spring of 2020, but COVID took that production out just as surely as scarle…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 09:34AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Shakespeare was queering the narrative before that term even existed. So it makes sense that Midsommer Flight's seventh annual production of Twelfth Night at the Lincoln Park Conservatory go…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:16PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 30, 2022
At a preshow reception introducing the Goodman's new artistic director, Susan V. Booth, executive director Roche Schulfer talked about how the theater's production of A Christmas Carol, whic…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 23, 2022
Theatre Above the Law's sampler platter of four one-acts from the late 19th and early 20th centuries (most of them seldom produced) offers mixed results. The opening piece, A Dollar […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:20AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 17, 2022
Alice Childress's Trouble in Mind made its off-Broadway debut in 1955, but it never made the leap to the Great White Way (emphasis most definitely on "White"). The white producers […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:39AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 15, 2022
Lifeline Theatre's acclaimed KidSeries has had good luck with the silly bucolic tales of Doreen Cronin (illustrated by Betsy Lewin), from 2003's production of Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 05:14PM[SHARE]Hansol Jung's 2016 play, Among the Dead, now in an intriguing, surprisingly funny, and sometimes quite moving production with Jackalope Theatre, occupies a bit of the same surreal territory …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 04:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Fourteen years ago, First Folio Theatre presented Jeeves Intervenes, the first in what would prove to be a reliably crowd-pleasing series of adaptations by Margaret Raether of P.G. Wodehouse…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 3, 2022
If you're an adult of a certain age, hearing the name "Peabody" in conjunction with science may make you think of a polymath anthropomorphic cartoon dog, companion to young lad […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 04:12PM[SHARE]When it comes to bold and audacious stagings of Measure for Measure (for my money, the most unpleasant of Shakespeare's "problem plays"), it's hard to top Robert Falls's dark take-no-prisone…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:57PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 2, 2022
Black Ensemble Theater's latest follows the company's tried-and-true formula with an otherworldly twist. In Blue Heaven, written and directed by Daryl D. Brooks (BET's producing managing dir…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:31PM[SHARE]Monday, October 31, 2022
This show at the Broadway Playhouse in Chicago is inspired by Dungeons and Dragons and other RPGs.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:54AM[SHARE]Friday, October 28, 2022
Though it's called The Cleanup, Hallie Palladino's new play, now in a world premiere with Prop Thtr under Jen Poulin's direction, is all about messiness in the aftermath of the […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 09:55AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 26, 2022
Women love true-crime stories"so much so that SNL spoofed the fascination a few years ago with a song about women relaxing alone at home watching their favorite "Murder Show." Fans […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 20, 2022
Six weeks after my mother died of colon cancer in 2008 (which was almost eight years after my dad died of lung cancer), my sister was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 05:32PM[SHARE]Shepsu Aakhu, a founding member of MPAACT (Ma'at Production Association of Afrikan Centered Theatre) has crafted many of the company's shows over the past 32 years. But I'm not sure […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 05:07PM[SHARE]Last fall for the Destinos: Chicago International Latino Theater Festival, Aguijón Theater (the oldest Latinx company in the city) unveiled the world premiere of Rey Andújar's La Gran …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 04:34PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 13, 2022
J. Nicole Brooks's adaptation of 1919, Eve L. Ewing's collection of poems published a century after the "Red Summer" race riot in Chicago sparked by the murder of Eugene Williams, […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:42PM[SHARE]Theatre Above the Law returns to the fairy tales collected by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, as adapted again by Michael Dalberg. (Dalberg's adaptation of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:13PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 12, 2022
If you're interested in queer Chicago history, you'll definitely want to check this out: At 6 PM, Sidetrack (3349 N. Halsted) is celebrating the release of Last Call Chicago: A […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:02AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 8, 2022
Head to the basement and grab those Super 8 films Grandpa shot at the forest preserve picnic: it's Chicago Home Movie Day. Chicago Film Archives and the Chicago Film Society […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:58AM[SHARE]Friday, October 7, 2022
Covering theater in Chicago is sometimes about writing valedictions for companies that have decided it's time to fold up the tent. In the past couple of weeks, two such announcements […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:32PM[SHARE]Today kicks off the American Indian Center's 69th Annual Chicago Powwow, which runs through Sunday (10/9). From 10 AM-6 PM each day, thousands will gather at Schiller Woods (events in […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 6, 2022
Today is the final day for the online portion of this year's Reeling: the Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival. The 40th annual celebration of LGBTQ+ filmmakers and new queer cinema [�…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 04:59PM[SHARE] 
