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True representation means queers behaving badly.
We are living in a golden age of queer cinema. Now more than ever, films about, starring, and made by queer peop…
To fully appreciate the magician's sensory illusions, you need to be in the room with her.
The envelope arrived about a week after the online request was made. I…
And a new exhibit at Gerber/Hart Library and Archives provides the visual aids.
When the annual Pride Parade steps off from the intersection of Broadway and Mon…
It is sleek, sharp, and cool.
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's Summer Series performed at the Harris Theater June 6 through 9 was a sleek and futuristic vision: t…
From Stravinsky to Wendy Carlos, six instances where music has shaped our conception of queerness, whether we're aware of it or not.
Drew Daniel, a member of the…
Comedian Shannon Noll is using their new webseries and photo project to subvert expectations of gender and sexuality.
Shannon Noll wasn't sure what to expect go…
Firebrand's production can't rise over the limits of the script.
Michael John LaChiusa's musical Queen of the Mist contains a second-act song that critiques its …
Adult children confront the past and future lives of their aging parents over lunch.
It's their weekly lunch date. They're sitting in the restaurant where she an…
Trap Door's production of Ionesco's absurdist farce works best when no one is talking.
Eugène Ionesco's loud, absurdist farce about an everyman desperately atte…
The Annoyance show may rely too much on stereotypes, but it's still lot of fun.
Al from Nebraska (Ben Cumings) goes searching for love through the heavy steam of…
Guilt and grief lead a woman to imagine she's been contacted by aliens.
Imaginative and often beautiful visual projections by designer Tony Churchill transform S…
When Joan Jett Blakk told us to lick Bush in '92
Neon shades of violet"not rainbows"radiate from Tarell Alvin McCraney and Tina Landau's world-premiere docu-part…
This photo of Harold Green and his handwritten answer to the question "What is it like to be a writer?" is an extension of my ongoing portrait project "Do you see me?" While you could label …
The glorious Broadway revival makes a quick stop in Chicago.
Halfway through the first act of Falsettos, Trina, a woman whose husband has left her for a younger …
Choreographer Emma Draves and three dancers bring an elegant simplicity to their Dovetail Studios performance.
The audience sits along two walls in Studio 1 at …
But a program of Stravinsky, Ravel, and Rossini at Symphony Center shows neither to its best advantage.
In an interesting experiment this weekend, two of the cit…
A hyper-colored, Afrofuturistic graphic novel captures how white privilege feeds on Black neighborhoods.
In the graphic novel BTTM FDRS, Ezra Claytan Daniels an…
Five memoirs that made me the pansexual freak I am today
During every week this Pride Month, we'll ask one of our contrubutors to compile a list of essential que…
An excerpt from Hugh Amano and Sarah Becan's forthcoming comic cookbook Let's Make Ramen!
There's a lot to be said for the pleasures of cheap instant ramen.…
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It also offers a sharp critique of the British political system.
When W. Somerset Maugham's British war drama For Services Rendered premiered in 1932, it offered…
Bureaucracy, sweet bureaucracy!
Despite having one of the most radical and inspiring biographies of any theater artist, playwright-turned-
prisoner-turned-Czech …
Divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived"and slaying.
History hasn't been this much fun since Hamilton. With its high-energy score, stadium lightin…
The ever-present danger is as much a part of a Cirque show as the spectacle.
Volta is Cirque du Soleil's 41st production since 1983 and, like all the others befo…
Gus Menary's ensemble transforms Kenneth Lin's mechanical script into a warm, nuanced production.
Playwright Kenneth Lin's got nothing on Frank Capra. In this ga…
