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Strawdog's family-friendly holiday show returns for a second year.
Hanukkah shows are hard to find, relatively speaking, but there are two running locally right …
Eli Newell's self-directed holiday play at Raven asks us to suspend too much disbelief.
If there's a workable drama within the rambling, under-rehearsed confines…
The unconventional family structures of 19th-century mining camps widen the lens for LGBTQ history.
Neither Tom Selleck nor Steve Guttenberg nor Ted Danson have …
Hell in a Handbag's Midler revue is middling.
Iconic singer Bette Midler cut her teeth at New York City's Continental Baths, earning the nickname "Bathhouse Bett…
Clare Barron's play explores the shame of success and the strength of female friendships.
Why did Clare Barron's success bring her so much shame? The performer-t…
The artist's piece Querida is a personal performance presenting sexuality, sensuality, and healing from trauma.
Darling Shear is a mover and shaker"literally. …
The dismal depiction of Japan's "missing million" features more than 70 paintings and drawings.
As I walk to Wrightwood 659 in the early afternoon, I hear the so…
Brian Herrera's magazine features the work of nine artists creating in a world that won't let them represent themselves.
These days there's no shortage of people…
Unspookable breaks down urban legends and horror lore with the perfect amount of scares.
When Ellenor Riley-Condit was in fifth grade, she learned about the lege…
The inaugural show from Chicago Immersive is empathetic and wise.
Immersive holiday shows in Chicago usually mean Halloween fare"haunted houses lend themselves n…
Hell in a Handbag's franchise decks the halls with campy good feelings.
Trivia time: what Golden Girls character still believes in Santa? You don't need multiple…
A contemporary gender-flipped take on the Greek tragedy blames everyone else.
In Aaron Mark's one-man, 90-minute Another Medea, Marcus"a gay, cis male contempora…
Christopher Wheeldon's World's Fair magic makes its last appearance at the Auditorium.
Parents are under a lot of stress during the holiday season, responsible f…
The longtime cabaret producer turns her own children's book about a lonely rag doll into a new holiday musical.
Some artists hone their craft at college or conse…
Her latest solo for Free Street about her mother's death brings alternative healers to the audience.
Melissa DuPrey sits across from me, in an updo she swears sh…
Sondra Radvanovsky sings the last acts of Donizetti's three Tudor queen operas.
Berwyn born, internationally acclaimed soprano Sondra Radvanovsky is performing a…
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The Oslo-based multimedia artist's installation uses sound to speak volumes about Chicago's social and political history.
Walking into the space of Untitled (red…
December performing arts aren't just about the holly jolly.
THEATER PICKS (KERRY REID) Good Grief…
The biography is prosaic, but this touring bio musical captures the dark harmonies of the folk-rock superstars.
Even when it's as jubilant as the pots-and-pans p…
Lauren Gunderson's 2012 play trades in tropes, but Joy Productions' cast is strong.
Joy Productions' inaugural show, Exit, Pursued by a Bear, begins with a compe…
A rag doll yearns for a forever friend in this new musical.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer's Dolly isn't the only rag doll hoping for a forever home. In Eleanor'…
Harmony France and Christina Hall trade off the two roles in this warmhearted story based on real events.
Since Firebrand's production of Always . . . Patsy Clin…
Lee Edward Colston II's play leaves it all on the table"and the floor.
"Go back to where you started, or as far back as you can, examine all of it, travel your r…
Current events have caught up with this solo play about refugee children.
Actor Tandy Cronyn, whose one-woman show The Tall Boy plays at Stage 773 for a limited …
