Wednesday, August 21, 2019
A spinal injury led Joanna Furnans to an autobiographical solo dance exploring the minute.
Minute movement. Mundane moments.…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, August 7, 2019
Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre’s world premiere shows the struggles of Black women in classical dance.
Ballet dancers applauded last October when Freed of London b…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, July 24, 2019
Alistair McDowall’s thriller at Steep plants seeds of money, violence, sex, death . . . and Dungeons and Dragons.
A woman's search for her missing sister becom…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, July 17, 2019
Windy City Playhouse’s latest immersive ambulatory production offers a penetrating analysis of class privilege.
Two college guys, unlike in privilege, in Provi…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMCloudgate Theatre’s production is too precious and preposterous.
Atmosphere is everything in Cloudgate Theatre artistic director Kristin Idaszak's new Strange …
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMMonday, July 8, 2019
This production of Shakespeare's patriarchal anxiety dream finds truth in jest.
Linked From www.newcitystage.com at 03:15PMTuesday, June 11, 2019
It is sleek, sharp, and cool.
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's Summer Series performed at the Harris Theater June 6 through 9 was a sleek and futuristic vision: t…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 06:00PMWednesday, June 5, 2019
Adult children confront the past and future lives of their aging parents over lunch.
It's their weekly lunch date. They're sitting in the restaurant where she an…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMMonday, June 3, 2019
Choreographer Emma Draves and three dancers bring an elegant simplicity to their Dovetail Studios performance.
The audience sits along two walls in Studio 1 at …
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 01:27PMWednesday, May 22, 2019
But at least "Exit, pursued by a bear" finally makes sense.
Now still being the winter of our discontent, it feels unwarranted for the Goodman Theatre to run its…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMThis is the fourth adaptation this year, if you're still keeping track.
"It was on a dreary night in November," intones teenage Mary Shelley, thrusting a candela…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMThursday, May 16, 2019
Eifman Ballet views the transformation through the lens of dance.
Eifman Ballet returns to the Auditorium May 17-19 for the North American premiere of artistic d…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 02:30PMTuesday, May 7, 2019
Of the several potentially fruitful directions for a play about a generic grown-up teen detective to take, this world premiere is not one of them.
Linked From www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMWednesday, May 1, 2019
The new play by Leonard House takes viewers inside a south side bar in 1972.
It's 1972 and Haskins' bar has been a fixture on the south side of Chicago for 30 ye…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMMonday, April 29, 2019
Directed by Barbara Gaines, CST's production meets but does not exceed expectations.
Linked From www.newcitystage.com at 05:03PMWednesday, April 24, 2019
This production's all-female cast succeeds in focusing a play often seen through the lens of race quite pointedly upon gender.
Linked From www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AMThursday, April 18, 2019
“He was Mick Jagger before Mick Jagger.”
He moved with a feral grace, with a heat that blazes through the grain of the film that remains, with a virtuosity t…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMWednesday, April 17, 2019
The cast brings the group of dance hopefuls to life.
On a bare stage, a sea of spandex roils, shining with that 1970s luster. A director calls out counts and ste…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMThursday, April 11, 2019
Race is just a trading card.
Joshua Harmon's 2018 Admissions opens in an administrative office at Hillcrest, an elite prep school in New Hampshire, where two blo…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, April 3, 2019
It's as pretty as a pastry.
Fox gave Disney a run for its money when it released the 1997 animated feature film Anastasia, about an amnesiac orphan who might be …
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMThursday, March 28, 2019
It’s been a rehearsal room, a performance venue, a puppetry workshop, and a space for experiments of all kinds.
Links Hall was originally Link's Hall, named f…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, March 27, 2019
Friday, March 22, 2019
The first woman in history to win two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, Lynn Nottage's latest play arrives direct from Broadway but its spirit can be found in countless barstools and beer steins ar…
Linked From www.newcitystage.com at 11:34AMThursday, March 21, 2019
It's escapism you can feel good about.
In Thomas Nashe's novel The Unfortunate Traveller, the young servant-soldier Jack Wilton swashbuckles his way through the …
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMFriday, March 8, 2019
Casting the audience into the role of congregants, this production of John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize-winning play is more canny than most about what it let's us see.
Linked From www.newcitystage.com at 11:00AMThursday, March 7, 2019
Go Team FatGay!
If the 30s are the new 20s, and the 20s are but an extended adolescence, then we may never have to grow up at all if we live long enough. Sam and…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMMonday, March 4, 2019
Nearly three hundred years since its premiere, Handel's opera of desire and power gains insight and urgency in this modern staging.
Linked From www.newcitystage.com at 03:00PMTuesday, February 26, 2019
Actor Kareem Bandealy's first foray as a playwright finds him laying the groundwork for an absurdist family comedy only to squander the work with an overcooked metatheatrical twist.
Linked From www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMMonday, February 18, 2019
Nothing that sparkles can last in Verdi's tragedy of goodness against the world.
Linked From www.newcitystage.com at 03:30PMTuesday, January 29, 2019
This WorldStage Production at Chicago Shakespeare Theater renders trauma, memory and youth in its own exquisite language.
Linked From www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMPart of the International Puppet Festival, this "one person" show from Compagnie Non Nova disturbs as much as it delights.
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