4,000 stories from Newcity Stage
Written during the height and subsequent wane of the AIDS crisis, this remount at Refuge Theatre Project shows its age.
Theatre Y presents the English-language premiere of this disquieting exploration of sacrifice and parenting.
The collaboration between Chicago's Red Clay Dance and Kampala-based Keiga Dance Company explores how personal and cultural history rest in the body.
Black Ensemble Theater pulls out all the stops in this tribute to the most iconic women in the history of modern music.
The Goodman Theatre stages the world premiere of this bland and meandering reflection on the life of an artist who was anything but.
A showcase for the talents of a gifted ensemble, but also of an experimental spirit, a willingness to place dancers who perform on the Harris stage in more raw contexts
A complex story of identity conjugation at First Floor Theater.
The Cuckoo's Theater Project goes fishing for laughs and comes up big.
At nearly three hours, this production from Invictus Theatre Company desperately needs shaking up.
Silence speaks where words fail in this Chicago premiere from Bess Wohl at A Red Orchid Theatre.
Leaning into the conventions of classic noir, The Factory Theater offers this bloody, violent tale of crooked cops and sideways plots.
This Midwest premiere from David Rabe at The Gift Theatre reaches for the stars but falls in blank space.
Rough House Theater is bringing spooky back to the basement of the Chopin Theatre.
For the first time, three of the most influential pioneers of experimental dance will meet on stage to reflect and project about life, dance and everything in between in real time, and we're…
TimeLine Theatre Company's revival of Terrence McNally's 1995 play demonstrates the resilience of Maria Callas' story and pedagogy.
Ate9 Dance Company explores the wonder of human connection and interaction. We are all really different, but we have secrets that are mutual.
Imported from Belarus, this slow and steady local premiere at TUTA Theatre Chicago is equal parts function and rigor.
An interview with up-and-comer Mikael Burke, director of First Floor Theater's "Hooded, Or Being Black For Dummies" and About Face Theatre's "This Bitter Earth."
The latest from Ike Holter, a pop-inspired musical about the cultural constraints placed on women and a universe-crossing Afrofuturist fable are just a few of the consciousness-expanding sho…
November dance highlights visiting and Chicago-based companies; often in the same night.
The world premiere of Calamity West's generation-spanning epic at Jackalope Theatre is a definitive example of the bold work the company is best known for.
In alternating its two leads between creature and creator, Remy Bumppo Theatre Company leans into their inescapable interrelation.
Imported from the Balkans, this new play at Trap Door Theatre reflects the limitations of the company's Euro-centric model, both in terms of politics and stage craft.
AstonRep Theatre Company's production of this Martin McDonagh play is as lovely a thing as can be mustered from the playwright's relentlessly bleak vision of humanity.
