It provides all the answers to the central dilemma that you'd expect. Red Theater has achieved its admirable goal to "ask dangerous questions theatrically" in th…
Just in case you had any doubts that Shakespeare was still relevant. In one of the strongest, visceral productions of Shakespeare running in this city now, the B…
Until then, it relies too heavily on stale old jokes. Second City e.t.c.'s 43rd revue begins with the cast paddling through the audience in a faux water ballet. …
Three days of performances and workshops encourages participants to become leaders in their communities. This weekend the Goodman Theatre will present the I Am .…
In Rita Kalnejais's modern fable, parents pass on their prejudices to their children. Whimsical, brutal, and evocative of The Secret of NIMH, First Love is the R…
Kick off your Sunday shoes. The problem with the 1984 movie Footloose is that it tries so damned hard to be a serious, realistic drama about a rebellious teen fi…
Inside a working urban farm, yoga studio, and community hub It's a cold Sunday morning in March, and I'm hovering over two newborn goat kids with a hair dryer.�…
It's only pain and darkness there. Like a cross between The Santaland Diaries and Sunset Boulevard, Jonathan Tolins's 2013 one-man comedy sends up the lifestyle …
It's like Crazy Rich Asians except way less intense. The climax of last summer's hit movie Crazy Rich Asians featured a tense exchange between two characters ove…
Good times, good times April…
Otherworld retells the old myth from a feminist perspective. Greek myths are essentially ancient soap operas, and such is the case with Medusa Undone, which reex…
"He was Mick Jagger before Mick Jagger." He moved with a feral grace, with a heat that blazes through the grain of the film that remains, with a virtuosity that …
Otherworld's mashup of Greek mythology and Star Trek is campy fun. Campy and fun, Elizabeth A.M. Keel's Corona follows the voyage of the starship Corona Borealis…
Emily Schwend's drama is a resonant portrait of life in the shadows of the American dream. Interrobang Theatre Project presents the midwest premiere of Emily Sch…
But what happens when one's a Nazi apologist and the other's a Jew? Wasting away on a student's diet of crackers and boiled eggs, young Hannah Arendt (Christina …
The UIC prof and former factory worker has no nostalgia for the days of middle-class manufacturing jobs. In the mid-70s, David Ranney quit his position at the Un…
The cast brings the group of dance hopefuls to life. On a bare stage, a sea of spandex roils, shining with that 1970s luster. A director calls out counts and ste…
It's a reminder that while art can be silenced, it can never be extinguished. Near the end of the first act of Lauren Yee's Cambodian Rock Band, the cast deliver…
Anything can become art by naming it so. In 2006, the artist Alberto Aguilar decided to let go of his studio.…
Race is just a trading card. Joshua Harmon's 2018 Admissions opens in an administrative office at Hillcrest, an elite prep school in New Hampshire, where two blo…
And not just because the main character's nose grows when he tells a lie. With their adaptation of Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio, Joseph Steakley and Ben Lobpries ha…
New Colony's production dances around juicy subjects without fully committing to any of them. Three Disney World cast members find themselves trapped in the smol…
This south side children's boutique satisfies your thirst for denim. "I want all the kids to be super cool!" says Aisha Burris, owner of Kool Kidz 2144 in Bever…
The cast elevates the production beyond karaoke night. Fans of both the 1999 film riff on Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's 1782 novel Les Liaisons dangereuses and of…
Mark Ryden's set and costumes engage with childhood fears while delivering a steady stream of whimsy. In the surreal world of American Ballet Theatre's Whipped C…