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It's a dubious honorific, but the press release for Nick Hart's metatheatrical, deadpan, quirkt…
The current book obsessions of Reader deputy editor Kate Schmidt and Super Tasty producer-host Karen Yates
In Book Swap, a Reader staffer recommends between two …
But Greg Keller's script takes way too long to get there.
In his 2018 one-act, actor and writer Greg Keller creates a relationship between two young men so poign…
Maybe you don't have to go to Mars to make your life matter.
Chimera Ensemble presents the Chicago premiere of MJ Kaufman's 2014 drama. Four very different peopl…
She's got a lot more to handle than a scarlet letter.
In The Blood is an adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's masterwork, The Scarlet Letter, in which Hester Pryn…
Monthlong exhibition will feature designs for a future memorial organizers are committed to building despite a lack of city funding.
Four years ago, the City Co…
Still, Mercury Theater's production hits all the right notes.
In Little Shop of Horrors, most of New York's skid row residents are just trying to survive. They d…
This Abbey Theatre import is unexpectedly wonderful.
So, two Irish actors walk into a bar. As does the entire audience.…
How one visual artist's look channels the power of nonhuman companions
"Faux fur, snake skin, hooflike heels, and other abstract signifiers of animality have pl…
Lyric Opera's outreach arm presents a contemporary chamber opera that grew out of two true stories.
This is what the bad guys did in WWII: rounded up entire fami…
Not all of us are born great.
Before Annie Russell became a news editor at WBEZ by day and stand-up comedian by night, she was a college student who wanted to ma…
A troupe of actors struggles to tell the story of the near-forgotten Herero people.
This Steppenwolf for Young Adults (SYA) production's full title is worth shar…
There is nothing like it onstage anywhere else in Chicago.
When you enter the Chopin Theatre for The Ruse of Medusa, it may sound like a half-dozen wild monkeys …
Why is the city so unfriendly for folks with disabilities?
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Go Team FatGay!
If the 30s are the new 20s, and the 20s are but an extended adolescence, then we may never have to grow up at all if we live long enough. Sam and…
The 2004 Pulitzer-winner is relevant once again.
John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize-winning 2004 play is timely now, in the wake of last month's long-overdue …
Tony Adler stepped down as the Reader's senior theater critic last month.…
Wednesday night the Athenaeum Theatre hosted the Blue Wave Rave, a free improv show featuring cast members from Second City, the Annoyance Theatre, and iO and put together by Indivisible Chi…
There are plenty of shows, films, and concerts happening this week. Here's some of what we recommend:
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Inspired by the Gene Siskel Film Center's screenings this upcoming week of Ingmar Bergman's The Magic Flute"all part of the theater's extensive "Bergman 100" series"we've selected five other…
There's a lot going on in Chicago this weekend"here's some of what we recommend that you check out. …
The explosion of American independent filmmaking in the 1960s and '70s was largely an all-male affair (surprise), but a few talented women also got their hand in during this vital and changi…
When Almanya Narula enrolled in graduate school at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she wanted to find a way to bring her passions for journalism and theater together to tell stor…
Ten days or so after Hurricane Maria tore across Puerto Rico last September, Casa Pueblo"a solar-powered, self-sufficient environmental center in the mountainous municipality of Ajun…
Composer David Lang, who served on the committee that awarded Kendrick Lamar's album Damn a Pulitzer Prize earlier this week, won his own Pulitzer in 2008 for the vocal composition The Littl…
