Thursday, May 26, 2022
Unfortunately, what Juergens presents onscreen comes across more like a loose scrapbook or vlog than a film.
The post Sunken Roads: Three Generations After D-Day appeared first on Chicago Re…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:00AMWednesday, May 25, 2022
Margaret 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 12:46PMThursday, May 12, 2022
A 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 07:00AMTuesday, June 29, 2021
A 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 08:00AMMonday, June 21, 2021
A 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 04:30PMTuesday, June 15, 2021
Mount 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 05:00AMTuesday, May 18, 2021
The 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 04:10PMWednesday, April 14, 2021
Even 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 01:35PMTuesday, March 30, 2021
An 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 12:40PMTuesday, February 9, 2021
In 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 11:50AMFriday, January 22, 2021
Stand-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 12:45PMMonday, January 18, 2021
Empty 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 04:15PMTuesday, January 5, 2021
Poet 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 01:50PMMonday, November 2, 2020
In 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 12:35PMTuesday, October 6, 2020
Wendy 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 12:40PMFriday, August 14, 2020
What 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 01:45PMTuesday, March 3, 2020
TUTA 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 06:15PMTuesday, February 25, 2020
The 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 01:15PMTuesday, February 18, 2020
JFK'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 05:30PMTuesday, February 4, 2020
An "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 07:20PMTuesday, January 28, 2020
Sean 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 06:15PMWednesday, January 22, 2020
But 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 06:30PMTuesday, December 10, 2019
Karel 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 06:55PMTuesday, November 26, 2019
Lauren 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 07:05PMTuesday, November 12, 2019
Mary 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 06:15PMWednesday, October 30, 2019
Prop 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 07:00AMWednesday, October 9, 2019
Encroaching 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 07:00AMWednesday, October 2, 2019
Jeffrey 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…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AM 
