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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:00AMMargaret Knapp directs the world premiere of Martha Hansen’s first play (presented by Light and Sound Productions) about five women on an Alaskan cruise—each hoping to sight something ot…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:57PMSteve Scott directs a storefront production of Shakespeare’s wallow into the nature of unadorned power-lust and demagoguery. With a minimal set—a couple benches, steps with a recess to i…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:46PMA wooden rowboat and plastic sheets lining two back walls are the only decorations for Sarah Tolan-Mee’s English-language adaptation of Heiner Müller’s 1982 cry-of-anguish riff on war, …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMA new exhibition at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art surveys over 60 years of cartoonists. Does a comic strip belong on a museum wall? I ask this not to qu…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 08:00AMA former cabbie talks to writer Reginald Edmund about Ride Share at Writers Theatre—and the real-life experiences that inspired it. Being a public driver has n…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:30PMMount Prospect’s Mallory Smart, who publishes the online journal Maudlin House, has a new book coming out from Trident Press this year. “Lit!” is what writ…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 05:00AMThe author takes a deep dive into the culture of the lifestyle and his personal connection to it. What do you think of when you hear the word skateboarding? A ki…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:10PMEven though its titular character always does just the opposite Meiselman is put-upon. Everything and everyone in his world is bent on humiliating and belittling…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 01:35PMAn excerpt from Dmitry Samarov’s Old Style, an illustrated book set in Chicago bars I pay the guy no mind the first couple times he comes up. Young, kind of co…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:40PMIn her book Faux Pas, the painter makes a rarified field approachable with humor and profundity. “You take a picture, but you make a drawing.” I’ve tried f…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 11:50AMStand-up comedian Sam Tallent’s hilarious novel follows a dumpster fire of a man looking for redemption. Is a monster still a monster if it knows it’s a mons…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:45PMEmpty bookshelves aren’t a bad thing. No one has ever used the words joy or spark to describe me and I haven't read Marie Kondo's book or seen her TV show. Yet…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:15PMPoet Damian Rogers explores her relationship with her mother in her new memoir. Do you know your mother? I don't mean her identity but who she is as a person.…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 01:50PMIn his debut novel, Pete Beatty fashions historical fantasy that feels contemporary. Ours is a time ripe for tall tales. So Pete Beatty’s yarn about two brothe…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:35PMWendy Woloson’s book dives deep into America’s obsession with cheap stuff. Crap is a fun and easy word to say. But what crap is is a lot harder to pin down.…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:40PMWhat it’s like to explore a familiar place under unfamiliar circumstances. When it was announced the Art Institute of Chicago was reopening I swore I wouldn't …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 01:45PMTUTA gives Ibsen's classic a contemporary musical update. Lauren Demerath rages, leers, screams, flirts, and, best of all, sings her way through an unforgettable…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 06:15PMThe cast in Redtwist's drama about a police shooting makes the heavy lifting look easy. Ruby (Brooke Reams) and Wilson (Kevin Tre'Von Patterson) seem to have a p…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:40PMHis debut collection, Stateway’s Garden, captures the city’s unique, ugly beauty. It's not often that a writer will make me see Chicago in a new way, but wit…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 01:15PMJFK's eldest sister pays the price for nonconformity in Trap Door's production. Kate Hendrickson directs the Chicago premiere of Krista Knight's Lipstick Lobotom…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 05:30PMAn "empathy coach"' tries to fix a toxic workplace in A Red Orchid's latest. Jess McLeod directs the Chicago premiere of Do You Feel Anger?, Mara Nelson-Greenber…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:20PMSean Graney's production offers a visually clever update of Agatha Christie's classic whodunit. Sean Graney directs a revival of the most commercially successful…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 06:15PMBut Theatre Y's staging covers up the Romanian prison camp story with too many needless additions. As the audience enters The Ready storefront space in Lincoln S…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 06:30PMKarel Čapek's rarely produced parable feels like a timely tragedy at Trap Door. Nicole Wiesner directs Karel Čapek's 1937 parable (translated by Peter Majer an…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 06:55PMLauren Gunderson's 2012 play trades in tropes, but Joy Productions' cast is strong. Joy Productions' inaugural show, Exit, Pursued by a Bear, begins with a compe…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:05PMMary Zimmerman's adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale is moving and magical. Marionette-like figures in colorful, exaggerated costumes dance on a…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 06:15PMProp Thtr's devised ensemble piece is a timely reminder of the importance of remembering the past. Anna Gelman directs the world premiere of I Am Going to Die Al…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMSid Feldman's adaptation has relevance on its side, but not brevity. Wm. Bullion directs Sid Feldman's update of a 1970 Dario Fo comedy about a chameleon-like ch…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMEncroaching fascism and gender fluidity make for a timely revival with Cowardly Scarecrow. Cowardly Scarecrow Theatre Company turns Chief O'Neill's Attic Bar int…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMJeffrey M. Jones's 1990 play about the horrors of disintegrating relationships gets a rare revival with a brand-new company. For its inaugural production, direct…
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