Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Within a Shadow, now in its world premiere from Lex the Movie in association with Red Theater, is an ambitious two-act dramedy that digs into the complexities of estrangement, cultural ident…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:40AMWednesday, September 6, 2023
Chicago native Inda Craig-Galván takes theatergoers on a heart-to-heart journey in A Hit Dog Will Holler, a two-hander that underlines the trauma and resilience experienced by Black women�…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:02PMWednesday, May 17, 2023
Step into the Aztec Empire during the 16th century, on the eve of a new millennium. City Lit’s world-premiere musical Aztec Human Sacrifice (written by Kingsley Day and Philip LaZebnik) te…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:56PMWednesday, April 5, 2023
A production with a promising premise is especially disappointing when it falls short. Unfortunately, that’s the case with Uprising Theater’s Decolonizing Sarah: A Hurricane Play. Amid…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:34AMThursday, February 23, 2023
Some believe that those who suspect death is near can often feel it approaching, and in Invictus Theatre’s rendition of Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. senses h…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:00AMFriday, January 27, 2023
Redtwist’s rolling world premiere of The Great Khan with the National New Play Network couldn’t be better timed. When Florida’s Department of Education had just rejected an Advanced Pl…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:00AMWednesday, November 23, 2022
Mosque4Mosque is not a monolithic representation of the Arab American Muslim experience, and perhaps that’s exactly the point. Written by Omer Abbas Salem and directed by Sophiyaa Nayar,…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:55PMWednesday, November 9, 2022
The Twenty-Sided Tavern—written by David Andrew Greener Laws (aka DAGL), with game design by Sarah Davis Reynolds, and produced by David Carpenter, is an interactive, theatrical quest that…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:10PMWednesday, October 19, 2022
From “Baby I Need Your Loving” by the Four Tops to “Money” by Cardi B, everything about this chilling production, including the score, muddles the gap between past and present. […]…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 05:09PMWednesday, August 31, 2022
Blank Theatre Company’s production of The Wild Party (book, music, and lyrics by Andrew Lippa and based on the 1926 narrative poem by Joseph Moncure March), directed by Jason A. […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:34PMFriday, June 10, 2022
Despite its experimental environment, Chicago’s drag world entered the pandemic with a lack of labor protections. COVID-19 exacerbated economic hardships, especially for queer performers o…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:31AM 
