The same day that I saw Nikki Lynette’s new musical Get Out Alive with Haven, the U.S. rolled out the new 988 phone number for the National Suicide Prevention Hotline, with the promise tha…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:00AMThe Hoodoisie is a radically politicized live “news show” that takes place on a regular basis “in a different gentrifying neighborhood” according to its founders Ricardo Gamboa, Lily…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 05:18PMSAT 7/16 Every third Saturday of the month the South Shore Nature Sanctuary (7059 S. South Shore) welcomes volunteers to help preserve the area’s ecosystems. Past volunteer days have in…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:16PMThere’s no shortage of outdoor theater in Chicago in the summer, and Midsommer Flight is right in the mix with (appropriately enough) A Midsummer Night’s Dream, opening tonight at 6 PM i…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:34AMTwenty years later, I still get chills when I think about the final line in Brett Neveu’s Eric LaRue, his drama about the aftermath of a school shooting, in which the mother of a teenage b…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 05:10PMThere’s a scene near the end of Albany Park Theater Project’s Homecoming (the company’s first live show since the pandemic began) where the cast sings “With a Little Help From My Fri…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:34PMLooking for something to do this weekend and beyond? Here are some ideas for you. The post Taste, watch, and find your homeland appeared first on Chicago Reader.
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 06:18PMOn one wall of the set for Terry Guest’s Marie Antoinette and the Magical Negroes, now in a local premiere with Story Theatre under Guest’s direction, a large sign tells us “THIS IS NO…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 04:24PMLast year, Chicago Shakespeare offered We Are Out There, a digital sneak peek of Joe Kinosian and Kellen Blair’s goofy musical adaptation of the 1953 Universal Pictures sci-fi film, It Cam…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 04:09PMSummer’s in full swing . . . get out there and enjoy our city! The post American music, Black Pride, and the Chosen Few appeared first on Chicago Reader.
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:59PMIn 2016, Monty Cole made his directorial debut in Chicago with Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape at now-defunct Oracle Productions—and what a debut it was. His staging of the story of Yan…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:49PMBack in the Before Times, I saw Carisa Hendrix perform as her alter ego, dipsomaniacal Lucy Darling, at the Chicago Magic Lounge. Combining va-va-voom Golden Age of Screwball Comedy glitz an…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:17AMBack in 2014, Theater Wit presented Madeleine George’s acerbic but aching comedy, Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England, in which the denizens of a small New England college town wres…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:53AMMaybe it’s a sign of our times that musicals about the aftermath of loss and grief have become so prominent in 21st-century life, from Next to Normal to Dear Evan Hansen. But while both th…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 09:49AMThis is the first time we’ve done a summer theater and arts issue, and judging by the full-to-bursting content, that’s surprising—especially given how much Chicagoans love getting outd…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:41PMHere’s some events and activities to close out the month of June and start the summer right. FRI 6/24 Today the Chicago Park District cut the ribbon and officially opened the newly renovat…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 05:26PMSiah Berlatsky just graduated this month from ChiArts, but though she’s taking a gap year before college, the 18-year-old playwright-director-actor isn’t letting the grass grow under her…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:02PMOn the wall of the big-box retail warehouse that forms the setting for Eboni Booth’s Paris, now in a midwest premiere at Steep Theatre under Jonathan Berry’s direction, there’s a sign …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:57AMI hardly ever start reviews this way, but trust me: stop reading this and hop online to get tickets for Erika Dickerson-Despenza’s cullud wattah, now in its local premiere at Victory Garde…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 05:20PMI spent most of the 90s in the Bay Area, where outdoor theater in the summer is a given, and the weather generally cooperates (if you’re not facing the threat of forest fires, that is). Bu…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 04:45PMSummer is officially here, in case the sweat and lightning bugs weren’t enough of a clue. In addition to the shows and artists we profiled in our summer arts preview issue this week, we’…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 04:01PMMany ways to celebrate and honor Juneteenth this week, as well as other outdoor and indoor gatherings and events—check it out! The post Juneteenth, Pride, and legacies appeared first on Ch…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:36PMLots of behind-the-scenes news in Chicago theater, and some well-deserved plaudits to note as well this week! At the Tony Awards this past Sunday, longtime Chicago sound designer and compose…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:08PMLike the rest of the world, Second City has been through its share of upheavals in the past two years. Longtime owner, CEO, and executive producer Andrew Alexander stepped down in June 2020 …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:13PMSo many outdoor events to share with you this week, so make sure you wear sunscreen (everyone needs a little at least, even you) and stay hydrated (you’ll feel better, seriously). And trea…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:14PMSamm-Art Williams’s Home, first produced in 1979 with the seminal Negro Ensemble Company and then in a Tony-nominated run on Broadway in 1980, is considered a contemporary American classic…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:36AMNoel Coward’s 1941 comedy about a socialite writer who finds himself haunted by his vivacious (if annoying) dead wife—while his living wife first questions his sanity, then finds herself…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:14AMLooking for stuff to do this weekend and beyond? Read on! FRI 6/3 Do-Division Street Fest (Division between Damen and Leavitt) benefits from handing over its music programming to outside loc…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 08:00AMBack in 1996, the late playwright August Wilson delivered an address at the annual conference for Theatre Communications Group, the national service organization for theaters in the U.S. Ent…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:14PMThe Uvalde school massacre put a somber hue on my mood going into 57 Blocks, Free Street Theater’s latest ensemble-created piece that takes a sharp look at public education. But by the end…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:58PMHappy days are here again with these upcoming events and things to do in the week ahead! FRI 5/27 This weekend the Martin (2500 W. Chicago) is hosting an exhibition by Tigray Art Collective …
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