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Here are ten shows that show a variety of LGBTQ identities.
In 2019, LGBTQ television has never been better. According to GLAAD, one in 11 or 8.8 percent of char…
The theater company presented readings of three new one-acts by trans playwrights.
You don't have to look further than this year's Tony Awards to see why we nee…
"Poetry is my language more so than who I am. If I could just do it all in poems, I would. If I could just talk to my friends and family in poems, I would."
Acti…
Centering the voices and experiences of Black lesbians in Chicago
I've lived in Chicago for almost ten years, have been active within queer communities, and hav…
Diane Alexander White was a photography student with a camera at the seventh annual Gay Pride Parade in 1976.…
He's become a master at the kind of storytelling he pioneered 28 years ago in I'm 27, I Still Live at Home, and I Sell Office Supplies.
It has been 28 years sinc…
Have we reached the promised land he died fighting for?
If he were still alive today, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would be 90. It's been 51 years since his assas…
A song-and-dance man learns to smile through his pain.
The heyday of vaudeville is over and done with 15 minutes into this delightful new musical from Underscore…
The evening includes five short plays written by Chicagoans.
The Impostors Theatre Company wraps up its inaugural season with Footholds, an anthology of five sho…
An intellectual debate escalates into the unwinding of tightly-coiled fears.
Steven Levenson's family drama, set in the months immediately before and after the 2…
But all we've got is a murky early effort from Tony winner Jez Butterworth.
Playwright Jez Butterworth won the 2019 Best Play Tony Award for The Ferryman, but it…
It's firmly rooted in the 80s, in more ways than one.
Anthony Tournis's new farce is based on the premise that televangelists are hypocritical crooks who fleece …
Out of the closets and onto the stage
Lanford Wilson's 1964 one-act The Madness of Lady Bright, a dynamic character study of an aging drag queen, is frequently c…
A generation that grew up queer on the Internet finds a home on Chicago's drag stages.
Derry Queen takes the stage in a laced leather corset and a black skirt. H…
In a tour de force, an a cappella trio of women capture the drudgery of factory sewing.
Third Eye Theatre Ensemble is offering a labor of love this weekend with …
A roundup of art events happening this weekend
Rotting flesh and chemicals aren't exactly what you might consider "cute," but that was the reaction of Defibrill…
Black men are rarely afforded the luxury of being seen as nurturers and caregivers.
One day during my daily Green Line commute, I noticed a young brother with a…
Unfortunately, this Something Marvelous production takes on more than it can handle.
On paper, Josh Wilder's Leftovers sounds like a radical magical realism romp…
A lack of detail prevents the characters from appearing as complex, multifaceted personalities.
Traci Godfrey's dramedy, now in its midwest premiere at Artemisia…
There is method to the mess in this Red Tape Theatre production.
The YouTube video of Pussy Riot's brief provocation"about 48 seconds"at Moscow's Cathedral of Ch…
And the press stoked antigay paranoia as a way to sell more papers.
True-crime storytelling began in Victorian America. Newspapers eager to captivate their audie…
It envisions a queer domestic space we don't normally see onstage.
I was hesitant as I walked into Pride Films and Plays on Friday night. Though the theater's sh…
In which five actors play the entire village of Highbury.
Phil Timberlake's new dramatization of Jane Austen's 1816 masterpiece, written especially for Lifeline …
Odd's Bodkins has created a highly idiosyncratic production steeped in quirky earnestness.
Dungeons & Dragons' 45-year history has had its volatile moments. …
A young woman struggles with heartbreak and disconnection.
L M Feldman's Grace, or the Art of Climbing is a character-driven exploration of the world of competit…
