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…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMThe 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…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 10:00AMChicago’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…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 11:50AMSocial 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…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 01:30PMSpace, perspective, and introversion feature thematically in new online dance pieces. On March 12, the dancers of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago were onstage prepa…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 06:30PMDancing Under Quarantine honors resilience and creativity. Founded five years ago and recipient of a 2019 Ruth Page Award, the Chicago Dance History Project has …
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 06:45PMTwo Reader critics talk about digital dance and theater—and other COVID-19 challenges. On April 8, several organizations came together for a "Chicago Performin…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 04:15PMDancers 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 …
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 08:25PMHubbard Street's management blames COVID-19, but Conte and others raise questions. A studio, in its essence, is nothing more than an empty room.…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 09:35AMTennessee Williams's oft-revised story delivers to arresting effect with Theatre L'Acadie. "Having the necessary arrogance to assume that a failed production of …
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00PMGift 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, …
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:15PMTen 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…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 03:50PMA 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 …
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 04:10PMElectric 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…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 12:30PMOur critics suggest ten ways to fill out that slightly longer calendar this month. Theater (Kerry Reid) Sophisticated Ladies…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 05:30PMKimberly Bartosik/daela make their Chicago debut. In 2017, when choreographer and former Merce Cunningham dancer Kimberly Bartosik began working on I Hunger for …
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 05:00PMThe characters in Sean Graney's production of Agatha Christie's delicious whodunit slowly come undone like so much hard candy.
Linked From www.newcitystage.com at 02:00PMFrank 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…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 05:30PMPlaywright C.A. Johnson's world of civil war, bombs, looting, gangs and starvation is hardly fictional. It is practically here.
Linked From www.newcitystage.com at 02:00PMClare Barron's drama delivers flagrantly graceless dancing, but heartstopping truths. The curtain never rises on Clare Barron's ferocious, Pulitzer-finalist play…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 08:00PMBreak the hibernation habit with some hot choices onstage. THEATER PICKS (KERRY REID) Whisper House…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 05:30PMThe 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 05:00PMBy the end of this melodious but ultimately vapid production you too might feel as if you've been kicked in the head.
Linked From www.newcitystage.com at 11:00AMBased in Australia, the company fuses contemporary dance with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander traditions. Bangarra Dance Theatre of Australia makes its Chi…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 05:53PMA contemporary and timeless vision from the premiere source for classical Greek theater.
Linked From www.newcitystage.com at 02:00PMTango 21 Dance Theater's cabaret show lacks narrative sophistication. Originating on the streets of Argentina, filtered through European high society, blending A…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 06:05PMLucky Plush's new ensemble piece uses the roller rink as a metaphor for community. Ah, the roller rink—a community center where everyone keeps moving in circle…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 04:45PMDirected by Mary Zimmerman, this ardent and wide-eyed holiday show returns, albeit with at least one noteworthy blind spot.
Linked From www.newcitystage.com at 09:00AMRena Butler explores otherness and adaptation to new spaces in her contribution to Hubbard Street's Forge Forward program. This week, Hubbard Street Dance Chicag…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMThe characters in Jake Heggie's 2000 opera acquire charisma through the unhappiness of their situations and the obsessions that drive them.
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