Tuesday, 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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 …
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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,…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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,…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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, …
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 06:00PMThe central romance feels overly familiar, but this touring production's ensemble creates a magical environment.
Your affection for Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flahe…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:30PMTuesday, January 21, 2020
Remy Bumppo revisits Caryl Churchill's 1982 play with a stellar ensemble.
The decision by the New York Times editorial board to endorse both Amy Klobuchar and El…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 06:45PMFriday, January 17, 2020
Collaboraction celebrates its current neighborhood while focusing on social justice in this performance series.
Collaboraction is in its 23rd season, but in some…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:35AMFriday, January 10, 2020
In its 31st year, Chicago's longest-running alternative theater festival celebrates old friends and new voices.
When Rhinoceros Theater Festival (or in more comm…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 06:10PMWednesday, January 8, 2020
National Disability Theatre member on the art of advocacy
The post Nicole Kelly, Loud and Proud appeared first on Dramatics Magazine Online.
SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 01:46PMTuesday, January 7, 2020
Atina Diffley's memoir about fighting Koch Industries becomes a compelling solo show with Saltbox Theatre Collective.
Atina Diffley grew up on a farm, but dreame…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 08:05PMPegasus Theatre Chicago celebrates 33 years of fostering teen writers.
Pegasus Theatre Chicago has weathered some storms over the years. But one thing has remain…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:50PMMonday, December 30, 2019
The touring musical version of Tina Fey's 2004 film about queen bees lacks sting.
The drama and intrigue of female friendships has filled works from the sublime …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:30PMTuesday, December 17, 2019
Four plays in 2019 recast history—collective and personal—with searing defiance.
To pick the most memorable moments or productions in Chicago theater any yea…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:05PMTheo Ubique's staging celebrates the dignity of everyday labor.
As the populist question goes, "If work's so great, how come they have to pay you to do it?" That…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 06:45PM 
