Thursday, August 10, 2023
Settled in the grass at Moore Park in the Austin neighborhood, a baby clad in a vegetable-patterned onesie coos to the music, while a toddler wriggles, wiggly worms in hand, to the aptly nam…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:11PMWednesday, July 26, 2023
The stages at Chicago Shakespeare Theater are accustomed to classic tales of daring sword fights, magic spells, and a prince in disguise—just the kinds of stories that Belle loves to read.…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 04:01PMTuesday, May 23, 2023
Heidi Schreck’s play showcases our narrator regaling us with her complicated love story. This romance between an American teen circa the 1980s and the United States Constitution circa the …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, April 18, 2023
No one does thriller or horror like A Red Orchid Theatre, truly.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, April 17, 2023
A simple lit rooftop, church steeple, or body-as-a-temple metaphor greets you as you enter the theater. Two bright lines meet in the middle, seemingly pointing upwards towards something grea…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 06:06PMThursday, March 30, 2023
Like the people in the allegorical Tower of Babel, the citizens of Jacqueline Goldfinger’s futuristic Babel are seeking oneness. The kind of oneness that mankind has never reasonably come …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:49AMThursday, March 23, 2023
Hajja Souad’s story, eight decades of life lived, is woven into a narrative of resilience, hope, and the changing tides in Palestine during her long lifetime. Brought to life in the U.S. p…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 09:41AMWednesday, March 22, 2023
We are reminded, subtly, that we too are made up of the stuff of those who have loved us. Whether we like it or not there are characteristics and tendencies we each carry within ourselves ta…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, March 16, 2023
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
When I read Molly Smith Metzler’s now award-winning Cry It Out in 2018, I knew it was something special. I am still not a parent myself nor (at that point) were any of my closest friends. …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:30PMTuesday, February 21, 2023
“Gone with the Wind”'s Hattie McDaniel’s artistry and life were complicated, much like history. That’s why TimeLine’s production suits them so well. We get to imagine what things w…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, February 15, 2023
A murder trial transcript that went missing, not to be found until 2004—decades after the murder of Emmett Till. The Black Chicago teen whose unfathomable death in 1955 sparked the Civil R…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 04:04PMThursday, February 2, 2023
This is an inventive and gorgeous retelling of Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights.”
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, February 1, 2023
Brent Askari places Warhol just ahead of the revolution in Iran (then Tehran) in the 1970s to get Polaroids of the Shah’s wife for a portrait commission.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, January 27, 2023
Michael Gene Sullivan’s new play is a lively reminder that those who came before are not just names to memorize in grade school. Their legacies, infamous or not, follow us in ways seen and…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, January 24, 2023
You will be dazzled by the shimmering costumes a la Bill Morey, the incredible talent of the ensemble and enamored by Angela Weber Miller’s multifaceted set.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, January 3, 2023
Now the new executive director of the League of Chicago Theatres, Ford’s love of the theater shines on in a unique way.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, December 19, 2022
Manual Cinema’s amalgamation of puppetry, mixed between shadow and light, is the perfect homage to this beloved Victorian ghost story.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, December 15, 2022
During the holiday season there are traditions all over the world. I hope that Strawdog’s Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins maintains its place as a Chicago seasonal perennial. Now in its f…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 04:30PMFriday, December 2, 2022
Equal parts imaginative holiday magic, Dickensian gothic style, and honest-to-goodness humanity.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, November 30, 2022
Int. messy Chicago apartment, unseasonably hot end of November. Being a theater critic can be so isolating when you don’t fit the story being told. Most of the time, I […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:13PMTuesday, November 22, 2022
The show is everything you’d imagine for a staged version of Buddy the Elf’s coming-of-age story. You can practically taste the gooey gumdrop goodness from any seat in the house, even if…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, November 17, 2022
Death is an often unwelcome teacher. It descends into our lives suddenly, without warning, or takes its sweet time. No matter when it finds us, Grief is right behind Death, […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:52PMWednesday, November 2, 2022
“Measure” is one of those bizarre Shakespearean plays that resides in the space between comedy and tragedy—something that few of the Bard’s works do. Yet you will find yourself mesme…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, October 13, 2022
As someone whose older sisters are over a dozen years her senior, Sancocho (presented by Visión Latino Theatre Company as part of the fifth Destinos: Chicago International Latino Theater Fe…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:26PMTuesday, October 11, 2022
Eve L. Ewing’s 2019 collection of poems deep dives into the archives of the 1919 Chicago Race Riots—the most noted moment of the country’s Red Summer.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, September 26, 2022
This psychological thriller lends itself wholeheartedly to the macabre.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, September 22, 2022
Chicago doesn’t have much in the way of immersive theater experiences like Sleep No More in NYC. So when Windy City Playhouse debuted Leslie Liautaud’s Southern Gothic in 2018 it […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:27PMNever before has my Catholic upbringing been helpful in seeing theater. And yet, my mind couldn’t help but wander back to catechism class during Refracted Theatre Company’s inaugural pro…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:12PMThursday, July 7, 2022
Many of our city’s theatrical leaders agree that Chicago is at the forefront of defining the future of the American theater.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM 
