4,000 stories from Newcity Stage
A feast for the eyes and ears, this production at Porchlight Music Theatre offers an encouraging parallel world.
Piven Theatre Workshop and Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre co-produce this place-based world premiere about Evanston's racially-charged history.
Baisch's voracious appetite produces work that is greater than the sum of its individual parts, more multiplication than addition.
Past, present and future collide with reality and its alternatives in a wild month of premieres.
Ekman's ode to Scandinavian solstice is a triumph of vision, imagination and masterful stagecraft.
Holter is working to break expectations. He's constantly playing with genre.
Why don't we take control of the conversation instead of letting the conversation steer us?
The dance shows to see in May from intimate activist performances to large scale story ballets.
In producing this play about prison and societal reintegration, Victory Gardens Theater unconsciously traffics in some of the racial dynamics that prop up the prison system.
The wildly witty and inquisitive company presents two reimagined shorter works: an expanded riff on a short piece created for Hubbard Street last year and a mashup of memorable moments from …
Much like the real museums it is based on, the fictional setting for Collaboraction's newest show isolates its contents from their context.
Harking back to the early forties and the late eighties, this revival at Kokandy Productions is not so much timely as full of time.
No amount of frosting can sweeten the bitter aftertaste of this Midwest premiere at Rivendell Theatre Ensemble.
Marriott Theatre whips fresh wind into Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic.
This wrenching, rarely-performed drama from William Inge gets a stirring revival at Eclipse Theatre Company.
This music/theater hybrid from A Red Orchid takes some creative risks but reinforces some tired stereotypes in the process.
This wild world premiere at Steppenwolf Theatre Company sees no separation between tail and dog when it comes to wagging.
This magical production from Adventure Stage Chicago follows its twin protagonists on a journey of self-discovery through their personal and cultural histories.
This immersive and site-specific work from Nothing Without a Company explores the persuasive, cultish appeal of corporate branding.
Remounted little more than a year later, Ike Holter's play has lost none of its bite with this production at 16th Street Theater.
Firebrand Theatre concludes its inaugural season with a progressive production of this Dolly Parton-packed workplace musical.
Okwui Okpokwasili's new work, inspired by protest movements of Nigerian women, asks the audience to open up the layers of sensing and awareness we use to make our world.
The U.S. premiere of Simon Stephens' new play at Steep Theatre is an uncompromising vision of toxic masculinity, celebrity culture and the global marketplace.
"In a Rhythm" offers a broad cross section of our cultural moment cut by the critical empathy of Miller and her collaborators. The effect is a powerful artistic experience that leaves the au…
Language-heavy, plot-light and emotionally fraught, this world premiere from Philip Dawkins' finds an ideal home at Raven Theatre.
