Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Rigoberto Saura's new piece for Hedwig Dances documents our current disorientation.
“I woke up—I took my costume, I took a bath. That day we were ready.…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:30PMTuesday, September 15, 2020
Theatre Y turns Young Jean Lee's play into an elliptical but moving film project.
There’s a video of Young Jean Lee performing her 2011 play We’re Gonna Die …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:10PMWednesday, September 9, 2020
A livestreamed multidisciplinary festival crosses a wishlist with a treasure hunt.
Along with every other performance venue in town, Links Hall went dark in Marc…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:00PMWednesday, August 12, 2020
Jenn Freeman (aka Po'Chop) probes femininity, gender, rage, and history in a five-part dance film.
Small-town girl finds adventure, fame, and love in the big cit…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:30PMTuesday, July 28, 2020
In an industry decimated by distancing, dancers discover steps forward.
When theaters closed their doors for COVID-19 in March, it looked like curtains for perf…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMWednesday, July 22, 2020
The company offers an online 'retrospectacular' of four previous shows.
“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 10:00AMFriday, July 3, 2020
Chicago’s 21c Museum Hotel reopens with “This We Believe.”
A stone's throw from the kitsch and luxe of the Magnificent Mile, in a north-facing window on O…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 11:50AMThursday, July 2, 2020
Social distancing can't stop the beat for this beloved Chicago festival.
Summer in the city usually means sultry nights of outdoor picnics, plays and concerts ga…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 01:30PMMonday, May 18, 2020
Space, perspective, and introversion feature thematically in new online dance pieces.
On March 12, the dancers of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago were onstage prepa…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 06:30PMTuesday, May 5, 2020
Dancing Under Quarantine honors resilience and creativity.
Founded five years ago and recipient of a 2019 Ruth Page Award, the Chicago Dance History Project has …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 06:45PMThursday, April 23, 2020
Two Reader critics talk about digital dance and theater—and other COVID-19 challenges.
On April 8, several organizations came together for a "Chicago Performin…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:15PMThursday, April 2, 2020
Dancers figure out how to create in isolation.
Dances are made in time and space, a minute or an hour in a dancer’s life never to be seen again. Dances do not …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 08:25PMMonday, March 30, 2020
Hubbard Street's management blames COVID-19, but Conte and others raise questions.
A studio, in its essence, is nothing more than an empty room.…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 09:35AMTuesday, March 17, 2020
Tennessee Williams's oft-revised story delivers to arresting effect with Theatre L'Acadie.
"Having the necessary arrogance to assume that a failed production of …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00PMTuesday, March 3, 2020
Gift Theatre brings a dark fable to life.
Once upon a time, in a room that looked like a fifth-grade classroom after a firebombing followed by an era of mildew, …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:15PMThursday, February 27, 2020
Ten performance picks to blow you away this month
Theater (Kerry Reid)
What the Constitution Means to Me
Heidi Schreck's Tony-nominated play, in which the playwr…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 03:50PMTuesday, February 25, 2020
A new work at the Auditorium combines Irish and African American dance traditions.
In the 19th century, amid social unrest, crime, and infectious disease in the …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:10PMTuesday, February 18, 2020
Electric performances heat up a Joffrey program that could use more coherence.
Antarctica has hit a record high temperature. Sixty thousand known cases of the ne…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:30PMWednesday, January 29, 2020
Our critics suggest ten ways to fill out that slightly longer calendar this month.
Theater (Kerry Reid) Sophisticated Ladies…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 05:30PMTuesday, January 28, 2020
Kimberly Bartosik/daela make their Chicago debut.
In 2017, when choreographer and former Merce Cunningham dancer Kimberly Bartosik began working on I Hunger for …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 05:00PMMonday, January 27, 2020
The characters in Sean Graney's production of Agatha Christie's delicious whodunit slowly come undone like so much hard candy.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 02:00PMWednesday, January 22, 2020
Frank Lloyd Wright's recently restored “good-time place” provides a divine backdrop for Winifred Haun and Dancers.
No entrance greets the eye at the intersec…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 05:30PMMonday, January 20, 2020
Playwright C.A. Johnson's world of civil war, bombs, looting, gangs and starvation is hardly fictional. It is practically here.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 02:00PMFriday, December 20, 2019
Clare Barron's drama delivers flagrantly graceless dancing, but heartstopping truths.
The curtain never rises on Clare Barron's ferocious, Pulitzer-finalist play…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 08:00PMBreak the hibernation habit with some hot choices onstage.
THEATER PICKS (KERRY REID) Whisper House…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 05:30PMTuesday, December 17, 2019
The best moments in dance this year focused on the power of community.
In the mad scene in Akram Khan's Giselle for the English National Ballet at the Harris The…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:15PMThe longtime Chicago dancer and labor lawyer turns Nutcracker revenues into new initiatives.
For most, the holidays mean food, family, festivities, and fits of r…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 05:00PMMonday, December 16, 2019
By the end of this melodious but ultimately vapid production you too might feel as if you've been kicked in the head.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:00AMTuesday, November 19, 2019
Based in Australia, the company fuses contemporary dance with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander traditions.
Bangarra Dance Theatre of Australia makes its Chi…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 05:53PMMonday, November 18, 2019
A contemporary and timeless vision from the premiere source for classical Greek theater.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 02:00PMTuesday, November 12, 2019
Tango 21 Dance Theater's cabaret show lacks narrative sophistication.
Originating on the streets of Argentina, filtered through European high society, blending A…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 06:05PM 
