Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Raven's production has heart, but doesn't fully connect the pieces.
Twin sisters—an academic with a Fulbright and a struggling songwriter—return from New Yor…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMAs First Folio's droll and dark production demonstrates, he rather deserves it.
The joke goes that someone could win the caption-a-cartoon contest in the New Yor…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, October 2, 2019
Here are ten sweet options onstage this month.
OCTOBER THEATER PICKS (Kerry Reid)
The Brothers Size
Tarell Alvin McCraney, Oscar winner for Moonlight, first hi…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMAkvavit Theatre's staging gets repetitive, but has some mordant wit.
If you thought Ibsen's characters had family issues, wait'll you meet the Norwegians in Fami…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWindy City Playhouse's production is a poignant showcase for Rebecca Spence.
"#992: Knowing to jangle your keys while walking through the nature preserve so the …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, September 25, 2019
The Tony-winning play gets a smart and timely local premiere from TimeLine.
If A Walk in the Woods, Lee Blessing's 1988 play about the private talks between two …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMJane Anderson's drama doesn't invest enough in the mother-daughter bond.
Jane Anderson's 2018 play retells the oft-dramatized life of Joan of Arc from the point …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMTheresa Rebeck's comedy of sexual politics tests the limits of women in power.
Back in 2007, New Yorker theater critic John Lahr dismissed Theresa Rebeck's play …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWater People Theater's contribution to Destinos is sobering but poetic.
According to a recent NPR story, 12 journalists have been murdered in Mexico so far this …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, September 18, 2019
Lucas Hnath's one-woman play about his mother's kidnapping centers the voice of the survivor.
In the playwright's notes to Hillary and Clinton, which premiered a…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMCheryl Strayed's advice column becomes a story circle in Nia Vardalos's adaptation.
Before Wild vaulted her to fame and fortune, Cheryl Strayed offered literally…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMLoy Webb's parable occasionally uses a heavy hand, but lands an emotional gut punch.
Loy Webb's new play is subtitled "A Parable," and on those terms, it succeed…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMChoreographer Michelle Kranicke and architect David Sundry's latest collaboration has echoes of 1980s postmodernism for the age of social media.
Michelle Kranick…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMFriday, September 13, 2019
The Museum of Contemporary Art and Prop Thtr offer directors a chance to adapt between venues.
Tara Aisha Willis and Olivia Lilley both moved into prominent posi…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 01:30PMThursday, September 12, 2019
Zeitgeist happens: we didn't exactly plan it this way, but nearly all the profiles and features in this special Fall Theater and Dance Issue reflect on boundaries, identity, and marginalizat…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 10:22AMWednesday, September 11, 2019
With two major shows opening this fall, the designer's career is booming—but he's focused on making audiences connect emotionally with the world of the play.
B…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00PMDeborah Zoe Laufer's existential comedy has charm, but not much staying power.
For those of us who roll eyes at the accoutrements of Big Woo, Bari in Deborah Zoe…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 05:00PMThe Broadway hit lands for a brief but lovely touring interlude.
The Band's Visit, which cleaned up with ten Tony Awards in 2018 (including nods for David Yazbek…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 05:00PMThursday, August 29, 2019
A two-night series at Steppenwolf gives Muslim artists a chance to reclaim their narratives.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations estimates that between 300…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 05:00AMWednesday, August 28, 2019
At Writers Theatre, Gary Griffin stages a rich and rewarding revival of the popular fairy-tale mash-up.
In Look, I Made a Hat, the second volume of his lyrics an…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, August 21, 2019
Theatre Momentum's newest experiment blends music with an improvised one-act play.
Theatre Momentum, which under the leadership of Tony Rielage lays claim to bei…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMThursday, August 15, 2019
Yippie Fest builds on the bones of Abbie Hoffman Died for Our Sins.
If you can remember the first Abbie Hoffman Died for Our Sins festival 30 years ago at the no…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:40PMWednesday, August 14, 2019
Christopher Shinn's play about a potential scandal on Election Night feels muted in Intrinsic Theatre's staging.
It's not Christopher Shinn's fault that living i…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMThe body-positive burlesque-inspired hive of performance queens fills the Den.
It was supposed to be a one-off event in an artists' loft space. But the buzz kept…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMThe dancing star of this world premiere keeps the story of Black women in dance on pointe.
The story of Black women in classical dance is obscure enough that any…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMBabes With Blades take a stab at Amy Tofte's feminist sci-fi thriller.
At one point in the 1999 sci-fi comedy Galaxy Quest, Sigourney Weaver's exasperated commun…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, August 7, 2019
The Neo-Futurists host a marathon reading of the special counsel’s report.
If you haven’t read the (redacted) 448-page published version of the report by spe…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 03:55PMWednesday, July 31, 2019
Macbeth> gets a boozy but hilarious makeover in this exhilarating show.
The moral implications of Drunk Shakespeare, in which a performer gets deliberately p…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, July 24, 2019
Midsommer Flight’s free outdoor production proves to be a relevant romance.
A weekend marked by extreme heat and storms makes the cataclysm at the outset of Th…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, June 26, 2019
Selina Fillinger's drama gets in some good shots in at quick-fix concepts of closure, healing, and even justice.
The 2016 Brock Turner rape trial, which ended wi…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, June 19, 2019
An intellectual debate escalates into the unwinding of tightly-coiled fears.
Steven Levenson's family drama, set in the months immediately before and after the 2…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AM 
