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Maria Irene Fornés's feminist masterpiece Zooms in to help Season of Concern.
Fefu and Her Friends, written and directed in 1977 by Cuban American playwright Ma…
With a trio of walkabout podcasts, Chicago Children's Theatre urges kids to go take a hike.
Aztec deities. Sistine Chapel replicas.…
The company's new dance film project captures the "sea change" of precarious times.
Jacqueline Burnett, statuesque, iconic. She stands, as if chiseled into the a…
Artist Selva Aparicio puts obstetric devices on the examination table.
Hys·te·ri·a /həˈstirÄ“É™,həˈsterÄ“É™/ : "a psychologic…
Allegations of mismanagement and harassment rock the fantasy/sci-fi theater.
Since its founding in 2012, Otherworld Theatre has been a haven for theater fans wh…
Stages are dark, but Chicago theater and dance companies still keep a light on.
This unholy year is winding down (or so we're told), and as we veer between image…
These small performative objects exemplify disability and protection.
Garfield Park-based gallery Goldfinch opened "Play the Fool," a solo show with works by Em …
The trials of being hapa in America get the callout treatment in this new digital play.
"You and I both know that if you leave here and talk shit about this play…
The Uruguayan-born choreographer and visual artist connects with undocumented women in Pilsen and Little Village for a new work.
In a year of minimal mobility, …
The good, the bad, and the ugly of our politics are on display in two streaming shows.
The long national nightmare of the past four years may not be over, but as…
Her quilts draw upon historic photos and family albums for inspiration.
The first and only time I've seen Bisa Butler's artwork "in the flesh" was at EXPO 2018, …
Tales of the Southside Pod swimmers
My clock says it's a few minutes before 6 AM. I said I would arrive at 5:30 but I miscalculated my morning and now I'm late…
Community, inclusion, and diversity form the connective tissue for Nick Pupillo's vision.
"My dream was to have a company. My dream was to create a space that wa…
The 'tragic Asian' love story disappears in this new gay rom-com.
Zac Efron: two-time winner of the MTV Movie Award for "best shirtless performance," four-time n…
Author Jason Diamond reflects on his Chicagoland suburban-spiration.
When writer Jason Diamond grew up in Chicago's north suburbs, he couldn't wait to escape. Bu…
Ben Beard's new book attempts to answer the question of which versions of the south are represented on screen and why.
No matter where you're from, you have a pe…
In 1958, the mortality rate of children born with spina bifida was 90 percent. Riva Lehrer tells her story of beating those odds.
My nightstand is a graveyard of…
Matthew-Lee Erlbach wants to cut the creative sector in on a new deal; the Equity Jeff Awards go virtual.
When he was a kid in Rogers Park, Matthew-Lee Erlbach s…
Invictus's streaming production brings new angles to Marsha Norman's real-time drama.
Embarrassing Theater Critic Admission: I've never seen Marsha Norman's 1983…
In his debut novel, Pete Beatty fashions historical fantasy that feels contemporary.
Ours is a time ripe for tall tales. So Pete Beatty's yarn about two brothers…
What weÕšre watching and thinking about heading into Halloween and the election
A couple of weeks ago, Reader contributors Kaylen Ralph and Catey Sullivan wrot…
A new documentary celebrates cliteracy.
Given that"as legal pundit Jeffrey Toobin recently and so unexpectedly reminded us"everyone is sexual, here's a question:…
A crowdsourced spreadsheet pulls back the curtain on who makes what at theaters across the country.
This past week, Theatre Communications Group (TCG) announced…
As theaters and studios get back to work during COVID-19, they provide a roadmap for safe practices.
Seven months and over 223,948 lives lost. As a theater prac…
From literal and data-driven to poetic and hopeful, the galleries curated by Columbia College Chicago professors show what democracy means to them.
When Raquel M…
