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Our hero a racist? No sirree!
The premise of Meridith Friedman's 2015 drama sounds all too familiar: Patrick, a popular white politician running for a high offic…
Joe Foust deftly portrays the detective and all the parties in the investigation.
American Blues Theater presents the Chicago premiere of this 2016 play by James…
It promises hope on the other side of defeat.
A meditation on endings and new beginnings, Lottery Day is a fitting capstone for Ike Holter's seven-play Chicago C…
An excerpt from Music to My Eyes
The day before Protomartyr played at Schubas, I had a meltdown at the Pitchfork Music Festival.…
Now you can learn the first language that was spoken in Chicago.
Gneshnabem ne? Do you speak Bodewadmimwen?…
A new documentary gives the general a coming-out party 240 years after his death.
Casimir Pulaski is getting a coming-out party almost three centuries late. The …
He doesn't offer solutions, but he's an empathetic witness to the damage done by violence.
"I'm not afraid of dying. What I'm afraid of is losing my mother, of b…
Is this pricey debacle what our queer ancestors had in mind 50 years ago?
Fifty years ago this summer, New York City bar patrons of many genders, sexualities, a…
The horror! The horror!
Wolfram Lotz's fractured take on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (and its famous cinematic version, Apocalypse Now) started out as a ra…
It starts as grotesque comedy but ends in tragedy.
What happens when people are truly left to their own devices? The first minutes of Anna Jordan's 2015 play abo…
Halcyon Theatre goes beyond mommy issues to examine three complicated women.
The world premiere of Kari Bentley-Quinn's one-act marks Halcyon Theatre's last prod…
A rapper's style starts with his shoes.
"I call my style 'SlightFlex,' which means doing the most and nothing at all simultaneously," says Corey Henderson, 29, …
It's as pretty as a pastry.
Fox gave Disney a run for its money when it released the 1997 animated feature film Anastasia, about an amnesiac orphan who might be …
Robin Witt's production takes a somber tone, downplaying the comic turns.
Logging in at a little more than an hour, Writers Theatre's production of Caryl Churchi…
"No one ever wrote a fairy tale about polyamory!"
Inclusion of full and frequent nudity is so vital to the gay throuple drama Afterglow that, according to playwr…
How do we hold corporatized institutions accountable for the decisions they make?
On one level, it's thrilling to see that several Chicago folks made it into th…
Sitting through this play is like spending an hour and a half with a Greenpeace volunteer on the street.
The Jacaranda Collective's inaugural production is a one…
A stellar cast keeps the parody musical cruising.
The dramatic footage from the Norwegian cruise ship stranded in rough waters this past weekend was cool, but yo…
The ghost light, a single bulb in an empty theater, is for safety"and superstition.
Whether they're holding the paranormal at bay or preventing a misstep into t…
"As women of color, life continuously gives us lemons."
Comedian Kayla Pulley is tired of the open mike scene in Chicago. As a black woman, she doesn't always fe…
Breaking the frame brings this German avant garde play to life.
The most incredible moment in this Theatre Y production of a nearly-forgotten German avant-garde …
The company ends its run with the same play with which it first debuted in 1994.
For 25 seasons, ShawChicago has been entertaining lovers of classic Anglo-Irish …
It would have been easy to begin this letter by writing "Chicago is a theater town," but also stupid because everybody knows that, even people who don't live here: Steppenwolf, Second City, …
She ignores that some people don't have the luxury of civility.
About midway through Julie Ganey's one-woman show, the author-star describes trying to make her T…
Under its new director, the Avondale theater's experiments will continue.
It all began in 2015, when Olivia Lilley made a deal with the devil.…
