The beautiful Lincoln Park Conservatory setting is just one reason to see this returning production. William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night is only nominally a holi…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 06:50PMSteven Strafford's Crumpet is delightful, but the material feels dated. In the season opener of Abby McEnany's new Showtime series, Work in Progress, McEnany run…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 06:40PMAn 80-minute 'ad-rap-tation' tells Scrooge's story without missing beats. The "ad-rap-tation" of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, created by the Q Brothers C…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 06:30PMStrawdog's family-friendly holiday show returns for a second year. Hanukkah shows are hard to find, relatively speaking, but there are two running locally right …
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 06:15PMThe inaugural show from Chicago Immersive is empathetic and wise. Immersive holiday shows in Chicago usually mean Halloween fare—haunted houses lend themselves…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 06:40PMHell in a Handbag's franchise decks the halls with campy good feelings. Trivia time: what Golden Girls character still believes in Santa? You don't need multiple…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 06:25PMDecember performing arts aren't just about the holly jolly. THEATER PICKS (KERRY REID) Good Grief…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:30PMA rag doll yearns for a forever friend in this new musical. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer's Dolly isn't the only rag doll hoping for a forever home. In Eleanor'…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 06:55PMHarmony France and Christina Hall trade off the two roles in this warmhearted story based on real events. Since Firebrand's production of Always . . . Patsy Clin…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 06:50PMLee Edward Colston II's play leaves it all on the table—and the floor. "Go back to where you started, or as far back as you can, examine all of it, travel your…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 06:35PMThe House Theatre's annual tradition remains one of Chicago’s best seasonal offerings. It took me nine years to get out to the House Theatre's annual nonballet…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 06:29PMSteppenwolf's latest collaboration with Ladysmith Black Mambazo has too much story, not enough song. Steppenwolf's long association with Ladysmith Black Mambazo,…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 06:20PMThe central characters feel like an afterthought in Barbara Gaines's contemporized version. Setting Romeo and Juliet in a contemporary urban setting inevitably d…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 06:00PMAguijón Theater's production of Nilo Cruz's drama is searing and sharp. Nilo Cruz's plays often center on people suffering displacement and trying to find distr…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 05:40PMIn its 108th main-stage revue, Second City tries to get a handle on our crazy times. A year ago, Second City unveiled Algorithm Nation or the Static Quo, a grim …
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 05:32PMA white Canadian pop star and two Black hip-hop artists share a reality-TV crib. There are two specific places in Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm's P.Y.G. or the Mis-…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 05:20PMGitha Sowerby's tale of a grasping patriarchal capitalist still has resonance today. If you've never heard of Githa Sowerby, don't feel bad. When she died at 93 …
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 08:32PMProp Thtr and Haven When the big theaters have a changing of the guard in artistic directors, it's understandably big news.…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 01:00PMKatori Hall's play takes its time but weaves a spell. "I lost my song. I lost it because I didn't know what it was worth," laments a young bluesman freshly retur…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AM1938 Italy provides the fascist framework for this Invictus staging. With anti-Semitism on the rise in the U.S. and Europe, it might make perfect sense to revisi…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:15PMShpiel Performing Identity produces this eight-day event as part of the Alliance for Jewish Theatre Conference. The attack on Pittsburgh's Tree of Life Synagogue…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 06:30PMAmerican Sign Language adds a cunning layer of commentary to Red Theater Chicago's dark romantic fable. Jeremy wants a girlfriend more than anything, but can't g…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMA musical based on the true-life "Slender Man" attack raises more questions than it answers. Last week, Payton Leutner, the victim in the Wisconsin "Slender Man"…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMThe table is set this month with theater world premieres, dance works in progress, and comedy with cured meat. NOVEMBER THEATER PICKS (Kerry Reid) Laura and the …
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 05:00AMLeah Nanako Winkler's raucous and poignant family drama gets a stellar local premiere with the Gift Theatre. The homecoming prompted by weddings and funerals is …
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMBarrens Theatre's inventive immersive church staging is just the right amount of creepy. When it comes to infamous female serial killers, Aileen Wuornos has noth…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMSilk Road Rising and International Voices Project collaborate on this world premiere comedy. Three women—one an MBA student in her early 30s, one a painter and…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMA pregnant woman seeking an abortion and her Christian captor face off in Jane Martin's still-relevant 1993 play. The pseudonymous Jane Martin (long rumored to b…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMEven without a door slam, Henrik Ibsen's classic hits home. To view Nora Helmer's girlish high spirits as proof of immaturity is as much a mistake as viewing Bla…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMRaven's production has heart, but doesn't fully connect the pieces. Twin sisters—an academic with a Fulbright and a struggling songwriter—return from New Yor…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMAs First Folio's droll and dark production demonstrates, he rather deserves it. The joke goes that someone could win the caption-a-cartoon contest in the New Yor…
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