Friday, July 9, 2021
Does the “Frida Kahlo: Timeless” exhibition and others like it go too far in their pursuit of bigger audiences?
“Make sure you can read the label!”…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:30PMMonday, July 6, 2020
Kale Williams initiates an online movement celebrating Black softness and purpose.
Like all great social justice movements, Chicagoan Kale Williams's revolution …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 03:00PMTuesday, March 3, 2020
Complicating gender and racial identity adds texture to the gory Shakespearean stew.
Titus Andronicus is a bloody tale about the illusion of peacetime. Despite b…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:30PMTuesday, February 18, 2020
The 60 wrd/min project aims to keep overseas creatives in the U.S.
Among the matches burning in the dumpster fire of U.S. immigration is the system of chutes and…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:30PMTuesday, February 4, 2020
Broken Nose examines the high-stakes world of global finance.
You'd think by now we'd need no more convincing: bankers are crooks, the financial system is a top-…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:50PMWednesday, January 22, 2020
Kevin Artigue's fraught story is one helluva play for Shattered Globe.
You know you've just seen one helluva play when you spend the next 24 hours doing mental j…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:25PMWednesday, October 9, 2019
A little more defiance of the genre would give this Otherworld Theatre show more bite.
I low-key love how Otherworld Theatre fully explores the concept of "theat…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, August 28, 2019
A gender-bending Catskills resort in 1962 takes center stage at Pride Films & Plays
My favorite question as an arts journalist is "Why now?" When Harvey Fier…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, August 21, 2019
Elinor Cook's drama gets a gritty and tender U.S. premiere from Interrobang Theatre Project.
Gender isn't binary. It's an idea that should also apply to depictio…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, July 31, 2019
Otherworld Theatre’s Stupid Shakespeare Company makes a low-budget, high-laugh debut.
Do you remember laughter? Most days—especially the days when I log on t…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMThursday, July 18, 2019
The show’s real power lies in how it acknowledges the complicated intergenerational conversations between queer artists of color.
Thirty minutes after I left "…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, June 12, 2019
Unfortunately, this Something Marvelous production takes on more than it can handle.
On paper, Josh Wilder’s Leftovers sounds like a radical magical realism ro…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 06:30PMIt envisions a queer domestic space we don't normally see onstage.
I was hesitant as I walked into Pride Films and Plays on Friday night. Though the theater's sh…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMThursday, May 30, 2019
Five memoirs that made me the pansexual freak I am today
During every week this Pride Month, we'll ask one of our contrubutors to compile a list of essential que…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, May 22, 2019
It commits the great satirical sin of punching down.
Remember High School Musical? Cool, cool, here's what would happen if someone fused the squickiest parts of …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMWednesday, May 15, 2019
If you've ever been to a 12 Step meeting, this will feel familiar.
After undergrad, I spent a dreary year in social work. I was terrible at it for a number of re…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWhile it's clearly a labor of love, the proliferation of hooks and lack of commitment make for a underbaked confection.
If I’ve learned anything from The Great…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, May 8, 2019
Plus there's an excellent joke about thirst traps.
According to the Pew Research Center, Gen Z—young people currently aged 14-22—are even more liberal and po…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMCurators have recreated the defunct company’s rehearsal space at the Chicago Cultural Center to explore 23 years of groundbreaking visual art and theater.
Chic…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMFriday, May 3, 2019
Chicago Is A Drag will include performers from across generations, neighborhoods, and performance styles.
To my fellow queer folks who live in the overlap of re…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 05:50PMWednesday, May 1, 2019
Chicago Shakespeare's staging draws upon the concept of a legacy interrupted and destroyed by racial violence.
Though the Bard wrote Hamlet sometime on the cusp …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMTuesday, April 2, 2019
How do we hold corporatized institutions accountable for the decisions they make?
On one level, it's thrilling to see that several Chicago folks made it into th…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 01:07PMThursday, March 28, 2019
Under its new director, the Avondale theater's experiments will continue.
It all began in 2015, when Olivia Lilley made a deal with the devil.…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMThursday, March 21, 2019
Against a background of Springsteen songs, they realize that baby, they were born to run.
It's time to induct Bruce Springsteen into the Queer Icon Hall of Fame.…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMFriday, February 22, 2019
On Friday, Black Button Eyes Productions announced its 2019-20 Season, featuring two Chicago premiere musicals. The season kicks off this summer with “Ghost Quartet” by Broadway composer…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:32PMThursday, February 21, 2019
Mercury Theater announced the cast and creative team of “Little Shop of Horrors,” running on the main stage from March 1 through April 28. Under the direction of Walter Stearns, musical …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:45PMI remember the miracle of watching “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” for the first time. I was sitting on a couch in St. Louis with the person I thought I loved most in the world. He’d just …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:15PMWednesday, February 20, 2019
On Wednesday, the Court Theatre announced its production lineup for 2019-20, marking its 65th season. Things kick off with a staging of August Wilson’s “King Hedley,” directed by Ron O…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:25PMFriday, February 15, 2019
On Friday, Steppenwolf announced the addition of longtime stage manager Malcolm Ewen into its ensemble. He is the first stage manager in Steppenwolf’s history to do so. Ewen has worked at …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:15AMWednesday, February 13, 2019
On Wednesday, the Bayless Family foundation announced the winners of its 2019 “Stepping Stone” grants, along with the funding of theater programming in Millennium Park. The grants — $1…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:10PMThe world premiere of "Hamilton: the Exhibition," scheduled to debut in Chicago on Northerly Island this spring, has announced a new opening, with its first public admissions now set for Apr…
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