Court Theatre unveils a digital experiment in microtheater. Before the pandemic, seeing a play often meant sitting in the dark and fading away amongst the crowd …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:30PMThe Chicago Poetry Center gives CPS students virtual literary lessons. Just one week after Chicago Public Schools (CPS) went remote, the Chicago Poetry Center (C…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:00PMThe bestselling novel about a young Latinx woman's struggle to find her identity is now a play. In 2017, young Latinx people entered the mind of Julia Reyes, the…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:30PMThe first in a trilogy, Donja R. Jones's play tugs the heartstrings at First Floor Theater. I try not to show any emotion when I attend plays as a critic and not…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMJonathan Foiles’s new book explores how systematic forces contribute to mental health issues in Chicago. Social worker Jonathan Foiles has written about Chicag…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 03:15PMNow in its third year, the Chicago International Latino Theater Festival celebrates artists at home and abroad. If there's ever an opportunity to see the full ra…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMBut the dance sequences undermine the attempts to address serious issues. The house music scene that dominated Chicago in the 80s comes alive again at the Chopin…
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