Free Street produces some of the most powerful youth-made performances in the city and their current production, WASTED, continues that 50-plus-year legacy. The FST’s Youth Ensemble brings…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:07PMChicago actor and community organizer Arti Ishak was tapped to audition for Hatefuck in 2020. They found the script exciting, like nothing they’d ever read. But the production was ultimate…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:48PMFood has been the thread, through hope and grief. The post If you teach a girl to pickle appeared first on Chicago Reader.
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:35PMWith Mosque4Mosque and other plays, MENA playwright and actor Omer Abbas Salem creates space for Muslim and Arab artists. Omer Abbas Salem had over 5,000 new pla…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:15PM“Shukran Bas” flips the cultural appropriation lens with a music video parody. “Put down the brownie batter hummus and slowly step away from the culture.�…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:45PMJust in case you had any doubts that Shakespeare was still relevant. In one of the strongest, visceral productions of Shakespeare running in this city now, the B…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMStill, Mercury Theater's production hits all the right notes. In Little Shop of Horrors, most of New York's skid row residents are just trying to survive. They d…
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