Tuesday, 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, September 25, 2019
Hannah Ii-Epstein's second play in a trilogy about the Hawaiian drug trade dances around the issue of mental illness.
Staged in the coach house of a Chicago Park…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 04:00PMWednesday, September 18, 2019
Trap Door's production captures the narrative of no narrative in the Internet age.
Kim McKean directs Caryl Churchill's 2012 assault on the senses disguised as a…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, August 21, 2019
A large cast and full orchestra can't breathe life into the Disney musical at Music Theater Works.
Music Theater Works presents a stage musical adaptation of the…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, July 24, 2019
Black Button Eyes gives Dave Malloy’s gleefully haunting song cycle an absorbing production.
Black Button Eyes Productions presents the Chicago premiere of Dav…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMEclipse Theatre Company can’t resolve the ancient problems with Christopher Durang’s early comedy.
Eclipse Theatre Company presents Christopher Durang's badl…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, July 17, 2019
Too many hot-button topics pile up in Dandelion Theatre's world premiere.
Dandelion Theatre presents the world premiere of Brynne Frauenhoffer's plaintive, often…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, June 5, 2019
Trap Door's production of Ionesco's absurdist farce works best when no one is talking.
Eugène Ionesco's loud, absurdist farce about an everyman desperately atte…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, May 22, 2019
How and why do you go on making art in the face of indifference?
Theater Oobleck presents the world premiere of Mickle Maher's latest hilarious tragedy. In the b…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMMonday, May 13, 2019
With his new self-published book, patron of public art Daniel X. O’Neil displays what he’s bought from street artists and swiped from light posts.
"Basicall…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 02:03PMThursday, May 2, 2019
Walnut Spaceship Studio in the Bridgeport Art Center makes its debut.
Barrie Cole presents a series of overheard phone calls on the CTA that add up to a beautifu…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMWednesday, April 24, 2019
It's only pain and darkness there.
Like a cross between The Santaland Diaries and Sunset Boulevard, Jonathan Tolins's 2013 one-man comedy sends up the lifestyle …
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMThursday, April 18, 2019
Emily Schwend's drama is a resonant portrait of life in the shadows of the American dream.
Interrobang Theatre Project presents the midwest premiere of Emily Sch…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMTuesday, April 9, 2019
An excerpt from Music to My Eyes
The day before Protomartyr played at Schubas, I had a meltdown at the Pitchfork Music Festival.…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 04:00PMFriday, April 5, 2019
He doesn’t offer solutions, but he’s an empathetic witness to the damage done by violence.
"I'm not afraid of dying. What I'm afraid of is losing my mother, …
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMThursday, April 4, 2019
It starts as grotesque comedy but ends in tragedy.
What happens when people are truly left to their own devices? The first minutes of Anna Jordan's 2015 play abo…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMMonday, April 1, 2019
Sitting through this play is like spending an hour and a half with a Greenpeace volunteer on the street.
The Jacaranda Collective's inaugural production is a one…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMThursday, March 14, 2019
Maybe you don't have to go to Mars to make your life matter.
Chimera Ensemble presents the Chicago premiere of MJ Kaufman's 2014 drama. Four very different peopl…
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