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"I hope this strike don't last too long, CPS," a young mother announces to the bus she's just …
Lyric opens a multiyear exploration of early Verdi with this 1849 opera.
Lyric Opera is launching a multiyear exploration of the early works of Giuseppe Verdi wi…
Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church, one of more than 350 Open House Chicago sites this weekend, is significant musically and architecturally.
With more than 350 …
A ghost-town saloon sets the stage for this zombie-spaghetti western hybrid.
Open up any horror auteur's toolbox, and you'll likely see some recurring devices: t…
A pregnant woman seeking an abortion and her Christian captor face off in Jane Martin's still-relevant 1993 play.
The pseudonymous Jane Martin (long rumored to b…
The grimy legacy of Bill Cosby haunts this world premiere at MPAACT.
MPAACT's latest world premiere, The Master Comic, dives headfirst into controversial waters …
Three Crows tries to breathe life into a play bogged down in stereotypes.
Think The Dukes of Hazzard meets Night of the Living Dead, but more reliant on stereoty…
Ida Cuttler's solo show for the Neo-Futurists considers the stories women tell to save their lives.
Toward the end of her rambunctious and profound one-woman sho…
Rival dance crews find common ground in UrbanTheater's staging.
When house music is recounted in books, television shows, and other media, three things are alway…
Pride Films and Plays provides an emotionally engaging production of this set-in-Dublin musical.
Oscar Wilde wrote "most people are other people . . . their live…
A real-life Jewish "catcher" for the Gestapo never takes compelling shape in this Agency Theater Collective production.
Nicknamed "blond poison" by the Nazis (he…
Silk Road Rising and International Voices Project collaborate on this world premiere comedy.
Three women"one an MBA student in her early 30s, one a painter and r…
Barrens Theatre's inventive immersive church staging is just the right amount of creepy.
When it comes to infamous female serial killers, Aileen Wuornos has noth…
Delicious acerbic drag performances spice up this whodunit.
"I think the most important thing a woman can have"next to talent, of course"is her hairdresser," onc…
Her album, The Bakery Case, comes into the world on October 18.
The first time I saw stand-up comedian Whitney Chitwood perform, she was onstage at the Green Mil…
See those voices in your ears up close and personal.
"Literally everyone has a podcast," says Chicago Podcast Festival producer Elizabeth Amdahl. She's not far f…
"Lavender Women & Killer Dykes" at Gerber/Hart Library and Archives shines a light on the people, places, and publications that shaped Chicago's lesbian culture.
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The puppetry is cunning, but not enough to sustain this Rough House Theater show.
It's a toss-up for me between the floating torso with a desk lamp for a head an…
As First Folio's droll and dark production demonstrates, he rather deserves it.
The joke goes that someone could win the caption-a-cartoon contest in the New Yor…
A little more defiance of the genre would give this Otherworld Theatre show more bite.
I low-key love how Otherworld Theatre fully explores the concept of "theat…
The star of Porchight's revival talks about surviving the postingenue years.
Since arriving in Chicago in 1980, Ohio native Hollis Resnik has embodied a pantheon…
Raven's production has heart, but doesn't fully connect the pieces.
Twin sisters"an academic with a Fulbright and a struggling songwriter"return from New York to…
Terry McCabe's adaptation for City Lit is minimalist but effective.
Arthur Conan Doyle's 1902 thriller is one of those classics most people are more familiar wit…
Mary Bonnett's drama has intriguing subject matter, but doesn't fully connect.
The world premiere of Her Story Theater producing artistic director Mary Bonnett's…
Even without a door slam, Henrik Ibsen's classic hits home.
To view Nora Helmer's girlish high spirits as proof of immaturity is as much a mistake as viewing Bla…
