Thursday, August 15, 2019
Yippie Fest builds on the bones of Abbie Hoffman Died for Our Sins.
If you can remember the first Abbie Hoffman Died for Our Sins festival 30 years ago at the no…
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Christopher Shinn's play about a potential scandal on Election Night feels muted in Intrinsic Theatre's staging.
It's not Christopher Shinn's fault that living i…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMThe body-positive burlesque-inspired hive of performance queens fills the Den.
It was supposed to be a one-off event in an artists' loft space. But the buzz kept…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMThe dancing star of this world premiere keeps the story of Black women in dance on pointe.
The story of Black women in classical dance is obscure enough that any…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMBabes With Blades take a stab at Amy Tofte's feminist sci-fi thriller.
At one point in the 1999 sci-fi comedy Galaxy Quest, Sigourney Weaver's exasperated commun…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, August 7, 2019
The Neo-Futurists host a marathon reading of the special counsel’s report.
If you haven’t read the (redacted) 448-page published version of the report by spe…
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Macbeth> gets a boozy but hilarious makeover in this exhilarating show.
The moral implications of Drunk Shakespeare, in which a performer gets deliberately p…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, July 24, 2019
Midsommer Flight’s free outdoor production proves to be a relevant romance.
A weekend marked by extreme heat and storms makes the cataclysm at the outset of Th…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, June 26, 2019
Selina Fillinger's drama gets in some good shots in at quick-fix concepts of closure, healing, and even justice.
The 2016 Brock Turner rape trial, which ended wi…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, June 19, 2019
An intellectual debate escalates into the unwinding of tightly-coiled fears.
Steven Levenson's family drama, set in the months immediately before and after the 2…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMMonday, June 17, 2019
The play’s the thing wherein to catch the conscience of the queen in Timothy Findley’s 2001 drama “Elizabeth Rex,” now in an al fresco staging with Oak Park Festival Theatre. Fitting…
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:15PMThe play’s the thing wherein to catch the conscience of the queen in Timothy Findley’s 2001 drama “Elizabeth Rex,” now in an al fresco staging with Oak Park Festival Theatre. Fitting…
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There is method to the mess in this Red Tape Theatre production.
The YouTube video of Pussy Riot's brief provocation—about 48 seconds—at Moscow's Cathedral o…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMTuesday, June 11, 2019
Forget the fiery passions and howling heartbreaks of youth. If you want to stare into the real abyss of human rage, loss and despair, try figuring out how to take care of the people who rais…
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Back before Tinder and OKCupid, making a suitable match — for single men in possession of a good fortune and the single women depending upon finding them — was a fraught proposition. One…
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On Monday, Trap Door Theatre received a special citation at the Non-Equity Jeff Awards, recognizing the company’s “endeavors in opening a magical door to an evocative and surreal world o…
Linked From Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00PMThe glorious Broadway revival makes a quick stop in Chicago.
Halfway through the first act of Falsettos, Trina, a woman whose husband has left her for a younger …
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMTuesday, May 28, 2019
Style and grace fill the stage with abundance in Black Ensemble Theater’s latest show. When you’re focusing on Lena Horne and Nancy Wilson, how could they not? But if you’re looking fo…
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As always, it takes long enough to get here — and summer in Chicago can be gone before we know it. But that doesn’t mean you can’t make time for great theater, which never takes time o…
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The men may kick and scream, but it’s the women who lead.
Whether Augie March turns out to be the hero of his own play, or whether that station is held by the …
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 04:30PMMolly Bloom has come unstuck in time. All right, not the real Molly Bloom. She’s fictional, after all. But in Steven Dietz’s 2015 time-travel romance, “Bloomsday,” James Joyce’s he…
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The nostalgic tones don't resonate quite as fully with the modern music scene as they could.
In his 2004 New York Times essay "The Rap Against Rockism," Kelefa S…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, May 15, 2019
Obsessive-compulsive disorder and comedy aren’t strangers to each other, as fans of Tony Shalhoub’s “Monk” can attest. But comedian and solo performer Adam Strauss’s detective work…
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In the early years of this century, Tom Dudzick’s meat-and-potatoes (or should that be “kielbasa-and-cabbage?”) nostalgic comedy “Over the Tavern,” about a Polish-Catholic working-…
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“Unless your being innocent is as interesting to them as being guilty, you will not be believed.”
Egyptian American playwright Yussef El Guindi is mostly kno…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMFriday, April 19, 2019
Small towns afraid of dancing and alternative lifestyles (such as … enjoying dancing, I guess) have provided a fair amount of fodder for musicals. “The Prom,” the sweet-and-snarky musi…
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Kate Fodor set the stakes high in her first play, 2003’s “Hannah and Martin,” which debuted at TimeLine Theatre (and enjoyed a reprise with them the following season). By putting the t…
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The cast elevates the production beyond karaoke night.
Fans of both the 1999 film riff on Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's 1782 novel Les Liaisons dangereuses and of…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMMonday, April 8, 2019
Many years ago, I had the privilege of watching theater artist and activist Rhodessa Jones work with incarcerated women through her Medea Project in San Francisco. The women’s stories, whi…
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The horror! The horror!
Wolfram Lotz's fractured take on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (and its famous cinematic version, Apocalypse Now) started out as a ra…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMMonday, April 1, 2019
A white — and putatively liberal — politician with a rising profile finds his career threatened when a story about a racist act he committed in college comes to light. No, it’s not the…
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