Karin McKie is a Chicago freelance writer, cultural factotum and activism concierge. She jams econo.
Squeaky-voiced Neo-Futurist Jessica Anne (no last name for a reason to be revealed) has created and performs a provoking mash-up of memoir and performance art, a solo show, with two […]
The Bard’s magic and mystery manifests itself in three and two dimensions as part of the ongoing Shakespeare 400 Chicago celebration: a talented ensemble harnesses the power of Will’s theatrical conventions to frame and […]
This is the funniest play ever written. For anyone in any aspect of theater, for anyone who has a season subscription anywhere, for all American high school drama students. This is […]
Writer/director and weAREproductions co-founder Ricky W. Glore has set the Scottish play in a 70s radio station. King (Duncan, played by lanky Aaron Sarka) is the reigning disc jockey with […]
Michael Patrick Thornton in The Gift Theatre’s Richard III. Photo by Claire Demos. The real Richard III perhaps wasn’t such a bad chap, not the “bottled spider” Shakespeare would have […]
The glorious athletic dancers and ever-innovative choreographers of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater are having a short run at the Auditorium Theatre this week – get your creaky sitz […]
“Do we really need to see Romeo and Juliet again?” asked the Lyric Opera’s pre-opening speaker. “Well, yeah,” he replied, especially during the city-wide “Shakespeare 400 Chicago” celebration, the Year of […]
British director Jonathan Munby finds the humor amidst the racism and uxoricide in Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s “Shakespeare 400 Chicago” production of Othello. For a play that starts with the curses […]
Blake said: “To see a world in a grain of sand / And a Heaven in a wild flower / Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand / And […]
Shakespeare in Russian rocks, especially when you start the evening with a shot (OK, shots) of vodka in a “Shakespeare 400 Chicago” glass. Kicking off a year-long, city-wide celebration of […]