Thursday, March 2, 2023
Even as the audience find their seats before the start of PrideArts’s new production one in two, they’ll get a sense that their relationship with the actors for the next 90 minutes will …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 05:15PMThursday, December 15, 2022
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, first presented on Broadway in 1978 and memorably mounted as a film in 1982, is ironically one of the most prescient musicals for the 21st century. The s…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 04:01PMWednesday, December 7, 2022
I try not to lose myself in hyperbole, but I’m guessing Tom Whalley’s Jack Off the Beanstalk (a bawdy take on the classic British “panto”) is the only play this […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:03PMWednesday, November 9, 2022
Sarah Sapperstein’s Maggie the Cat commands your attention with her act one monologues in MadKap Productions’s mounting of Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at Skokie Theatre,…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:07AMThursday, November 3, 2022
In Boeing-Boeing, the 1960 French sex comedy by Marc Camoletti (translated by Beverly Cross and Francis Evans) that’s now being mounted by Saint Sebastian Players, protagonist Bernard (Gar…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 04:27PMFriday, October 28, 2022
Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about a rural Illinois family beset by delusion and dysfunction is brilliantly brought to life by AstonRep Theatre Company. Alcoholic patriar…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 09:20AMThursday, October 27, 2022
Music Theater Works (MTW) ambitiously takes on some of the problems with Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s formless and dated book, keeping our focus on Arthur (Michael Metcalf), Guene…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:43AMThursday, October 6, 2022
Dr. Barbra Joan Frankenstreisand (Tyler Anthony Smith)—that ultimate hyphenate: superstar-mad scientist—has commandeered the stage at the Raven Room at Redline VR bar for what she calls …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:14AMTuesday, September 27, 2022
Two emotionally intense woman-centered productions are among the offerings at this fall’s fifth Destinos: Chicago International Latino Theater Festival, with the first focusing on the psyc…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:23PMWednesday, August 31, 2022
The titular girlfriend in the local premiere of the two-person musical (book by Todd Almond, music and lyrics by Matthew Sweet) kicking off PrideArts’s 2022-23 season never appears. Referr…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:29AMThursday, July 28, 2022
Late in Evanston’s Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre’s production of The Mamalogues, one character asks, “If I am my ancestors’ wildest dream, why am I still living out their worst nightmar…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:53PMFriday, June 17, 2022
Airport (1970) introduced many tropes so closely associated with the 70s disaster genre: the reverence for—and subsequent destabilization of—then-new technologies, in this case the Boein…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:00AMThursday, June 9, 2022
For LGBTQ+ audiences and their allies who may not want to spend all of their Pride weekend on the north side, the arts collective TRQPITECA offers an alternative. TRQPITECA, formed in 2015, …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:23PMMonday, May 16, 2022
For Chicago-based director Donterrio, the late-00s musical Passing Strange represents a road map for how an artist—no matter the medium in which they create—can live their life. The sh…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 05:34PM 
