Happy 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 …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 04:13PMSix years ago, Brian Quijada and Teatro Vista teamed up to present Quijada’s solo show, Where Did We Sit on the Bus?, an endearing and poignant portrait of growing up in the Chicago suburb…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:30AMLooking for some things to do? Consider these options! We found some happenings all over the map this time around, including Evanston, Back of the Yards, downtown, Logan Square, South Shore,…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 05:39PMLast August, I caught up with Jacob Harvey just as he was taking over as the new (and first-ever) managing artistic director of theaters for the Fine Arts Building. At the time, he noted tha…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:15PMAaron Sorkin’s gonna Sorkin, even when he’s working off someone else’s material. In his new adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, now in a short touring stop with Broadwa…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 04:13PMWhether by design or happenstance, Writers Theatre has focused on the theme of women in competition and collaboration this season. In Eleanor Burgess’s Wife of a Salesman, two actors portr…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:56PMIf you’re a fan of Henry Louis Gates’s Finding Your Roots on PBS, then you can probably relate to Annabelle Lee Revak’s impulse to create a musical out of the World War I-era letters o…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:49PMReproductive rights cuts both ways: the government deciding that you may not have a child comes from the same authoritarianism that tells you that you must continue an unwanted pregnancy. Gi…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:26PMLooking for some mid-month fun? Check out the following events and ideas. FRI 5/13 Broken Nose Theatre continues its season with the Chicago premiere of Zoe Kazan’s dystopic drama After th…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:47PMEle Matelan didn’t plan on making a career out of sound effects. Like a lot of Chicago theater artists, she moved here after college (at Southern Methodist University) to pursue acting. Sh…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:13PMLaura Schellhardt’s Digging Up Dessa was commissioned by the John F. Kennedy Center as part of its Theater for Young Audiences program in 2018. But this play, now in its Chicago premiere w…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:00AM“Here is a theater. No curtain, no wings, no scenery. Just an empty space.” Konstantin Treplev, the young and hungry artist manqué in Anton Chekhov’s Seagull, intones these words befo…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:57PMTimeLine Theatre unveils plans for their new Uptown home, while their longtime managing director transitions to a new role. TimeLine Theatre's mission is to pre…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 03:40PMJocelyn Bioh's smart comedy at the Goodman examines cliques, colonialism, and colorism. From the Heathers to the Plastics, teenage girls and their cliques have p…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 03:15PMChanges in faces, places, and union rules might carry harbingers of a shifting landscape in Chicago theater. There's been a tsunami of theater news over the past…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 02:10PMA trash island forms the background for Oak Park Festival Theatre's outdoor staging of The Tempest. Choosing The Tempest as their first show to break the enforce…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 09:00AMRoss Compton's Henchpeople is a shaggy and endearing comedy about supervillain support staff. I went to a play a few days ago. In the Before Times, that would ha…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 02:30PMMarti Lyons takes over at Remy Bumppo, while Lorena Diaz and Wendy Mateo share the top job at Teatro Vista. There's been a lot of changeover in top leadership at…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:30PM$5 million helps BET regain lost ground from COVID, while Ken-Matt Martin reignites a VG tradition. Back in 2012, just as Black Ensemble Theater was moving into…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 05:00PMJay Españo brings international perspective as the new AD for PrideArts; plus Leaders for a New Chicago awards and a new fund in honor of the late Malcolm Ewen …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 05:15PMSome performing arts groups are opening their doors, but others are inviting audiences to soak up the sun. In just the past couple of weeks, theaters have starte…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:30PMDePaul's Theatre School retools the MFA acting program to be less expensive and more relevant; plus news from Collaboraction and Playmakers Laboratory Twenty yea…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 05:15PMA Joyce Foundation grant paves the way for a community playmaking project at Congo Square focused on Black women and girls. "I love Black women and girls. I love…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:45PMDirector Iris Sowlat uses social isolation as a framework for the lovers; plus PARA.MAR Dance Theatre offers live classes and performances with THAWEN. In the en…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:40PMThe onetime Chicago theatermaker premieres his digital show for Mother's Day; plus major awards for playwrights and designers and a tribute to Russ Tutterow Some…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 02:20PMThe cowriter of We Broke Up talks about why she misses Chicago theater—and why it's hard to come home again. Laura Jacqmin spent "a solid ten years" (2006 to 2…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 10:00AMThe Southport corridor venue gets new life and new leadership. Retractions generally aren't fun for journalists. But the announcement last week that Mercury Thea…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 02:40PMA movement for pay equity and transparency for theater designers scores a victory; Black Lives Black Words kicks off a new discussion series. Back in 2019, I int…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 03:10PMPossibilities produces a live Zoom version of The Dining Room, but Melody DeRogatis has post-pandemic plans for her company. Large family gatherings may still be…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 01:05PMStudio5's virtual speakeasy, Into the Mist, has echoes of the past and resonances for today. The temptation to time travel during the past year has been strong. …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 10:00AMTwo streaming shows from Theatre in the Dark and Strawdog capture the drama of obsession and isolation. Whether you're on the vast endless seas or stuck in your …
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