Friday, January 27, 2023
In a world . . . where Norse mythology meets prog rock on a set seemingly built by precocious middle-schoolers, brothers Jorik and Jarl battle one another and several deities (best known to …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:00AMWednesday, January 18, 2023
In Witold Gombrowicz’s fictional kingdom of Burgundia, the royal court is bored. One day Prince Phillip (Keith Surney) and his consort, Simon (Gus Thomas) happen upon Ivona (Laura Nelson),…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:22PMWednesday, November 9, 2022
Drawing from a well that’s 500 years old and who knows how deep takes nerve. Yet that’s what Laughing Stock attempts with this contemporary take on commedia dell’arte. You could […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:24AMWednesday, October 19, 2022
Gabriel (Dominick Vincent Alesia) and Emmett (Lucas Matteson) are strangers in a strange land. Robbed and left out in the middle of nowhere after a bar brawl with a biker […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:10PMFriday, October 7, 2022
It’s rare for me to be surprised by a painting show, but I didn’t see “Taking Shape” coming. The exhibition is a generous survey of abstract art made from the […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:56PMTuesday, October 4, 2022
Most people are lucky to have one act that hits. William Horberg is well into his third. Horberg was born in Chicago and grew up around Belmont and Broadway in […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:48AMFriday, September 30, 2022
Sierra Pettengill’s disquieting documentary uses only archival footage shot by the military and clips from period news coverage to explore this uncanny episode in the country’s history.
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 05:00PMWednesday, September 28, 2022
Lette (Dennis Bisto) assumes that since he’s the inventor of his company’s latest product, he’ll be the one to present it at the big upcoming corporate event. But then his […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 04:20PMThursday, September 22, 2022
Is it a good message to send young girls that they can be bad and do what they want for a little while but when the rubber hits the road they must toe the line?
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 06:40PMWestley Heine never dreamed of singing for change on the streets of Chicago but life sometimes offers only stark choices. Getting by as a musician, artist, or writer is uphill […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:54PMMonday, September 19, 2022
I have no idea how an A-list cast like this was hoodwinked into participating in this wink-wink nudge-nudge snooze fest.
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:30PMThursday, September 15, 2022
“The people who pick up flyers and show up to free classes tend to be restless searchers,” John tells his students, after remarking that there must be something wrong with […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 04:33PMWednesday, August 31, 2022
I love Dracula. I’ve loved him ever since a Saturday afternoon in the late 70s or early 80s when I saw Bela Lugosi portray him on TV as part of […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:16AMWednesday, August 24, 2022
Christian Alexander is the writer and co-star of this world premiere production from his brand-new company, Campfire Repertory Theatre. James (Keith Ferguson) and Michelle (Ashley Graham) co…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:52PMFriday, August 12, 2022
It’s a small story whose roots and branches radiate in all directions.
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 05:45PMMonday, August 8, 2022
Wolfgang Amadeus Aleksandr “Aleks” Fa has a lot of baggage. The protagonist of Joe Meno’s new novel Book of Extraordinary Tragedies has that name, after all—which also serves as a cl…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 05:06PMFriday, August 5, 2022
Filmmaker Danny Cohen gave Barnett a Dictaphone and asked her to talk into it as she traversed the world on tours over three years, in support of her celebrated second album in 2018, and onw…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 04:50PMTuesday, July 26, 2022
A novelist, writing professor, and covert comedian named Solomon Gladman wakes up one morning in Chicago, sometime in 2022. He and his French-born wife, Daphne Bourbon (would she be named Si…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:01PMTuesday, July 19, 2022
Despite all the beautiful water, sun, and half-naked bodies, what I was left with as the credits rolled was a mere trace memory of stylish vacuity.
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:30AMFriday, July 8, 2022
“Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink,” Coleridge’s sailor complains in the famous 1798 poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” The mariner is talking about the plight on…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 06:58PMThursday, July 7, 2022
With over a hundred years of the moving image at their disposal, these creative people appear at a loss how to proceed. It’s a very familiar feeling.
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:37PMFriday, July 1, 2022
This is a skillful but flawed portrait of amateur sports on the global stage that doesn’t quite stick the landing.
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:11PMFriday, June 24, 2022
“My dear boy, why don’t you try acting?” Laurence Olivier’s quippy response to Dustin Hoffman’s story of how he stayed up three nights to fully inhabit the sleepless state of his c…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:19PMThursday, June 23, 2022
“Cézanne, he’s the greatest of us all.”—Claude Monet to Georges Clemenceau in conversation, cited in translation in The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné (trans. Joh…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 05:52PMThursday, June 16, 2022
Charles has a mannequin head, rubber gloves for hands, and a washing-machine torso. But the rest of him is quite obviously human. His hodgepodge construction neatly describes the disjointedn…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:56AMWednesday, June 15, 2022
Nealshow Productions premieres Pat Radke’s and Dave Satterwhite’s malaprop-fueled road-trip comedy. Candyce (Lee Satterwhite), in WWI helmet and goggles, is at the wheel of a middle-scho…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:50AMFriday, June 10, 2022
In a time when the most banal information is up for debate, this fake documentary reads as much too real.
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 05:12PMThursday, May 26, 2022
Being the son of the great Iranian dissident filmmaker Jafar Panahi and the protege of the late master director Abbas Kiarostami can’t help but cast a shadow, but if this digressive and sl…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:00AMUnfortunately, what Juergens presents onscreen comes across more like a loose scrapbook or vlog than a film.
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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 12:46PM 
