Aaron Sorkin’s To Kill a Mockingbird is not the same story you read in high school or reread last year. It’s not the award-winning film you saw many years ago. In adapting Mockingbird for the stage, Sorkin keeps the heart of Harper Lee’s 1960 novel…
Zoe Kazan’s play After the Blast is set a few generations in the future—underground. An environmental disaster has made “upstairs” unlivable and some people were able to escape to a new below-ground world, bringing only a few precious possessions. Now fertility is…
Nick Cave’s art is gloriously, spectacularly colorful and joyous. Your first view of the gallery array of Soundsuits is thrilling, even if you have met a Soundsuit before. This army of figures is diverse and visually exciting. But it’s not…
Last Hermanos by Exal Iraheta is a play about two brothers, set at some time now or in the recent past or near future, in an abandoned visitor center in a deserted park in central Texas. The brothers are escaping from…
Helen is a bright, attractive young woman, but, sad to say, she’s not royal. So Bertram/Count of Rossillion, the man she loves for reasons not clear, scorns her. The daughter of a famous doctor, Helen is able to cure the…
Since 1985, Chicago’s International Latino Cultural Center has presented the annual Chicago Latino Film Festival, featuring a diverse and entertaining selection of feature-length and short films from across Latin America. This year’s event, presented both in-person and virtually, began on…
The Joffrey Ballet’s spring program will combine an iconic John Steinbeck story transformed into a modern ballet with Serenade, a classic George Balanchine ballet first performed in the 1930s. The program will premiere Wednesday, April 27, and run for 10 performances…
“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” English textile designer William Morris said in 1880. The statement represented his business mission in promoting true craft and persuading the masses…
Eve Vertel (Catherine Frôt) is an artisanal rose breeder who inherited her father’s business and is trying to keep it alive in a world of flowers dominated (like most industries) by mass production and mass marketing. Madame Vertel is an…
A family’s Passover seder table at several time periods is the center of In Every Generation, a play about family, faith and history. Victory Gardens Theater is staging this world premiere production, written by Ali Viterbi and directed by Devon de…
Molly Sweeney is an independent middle-aged woman who lives in Donegal. She has a job, a husband, friends, social activities, and she loves to swim in the sea. She has been completely blind since she was an infant. She’s content…
Emily Mann: Rebel Artist of the American Theater By Alexis Greene Applause Theatre and Cinema Books If B for Biography equals B for Boring to you, I suggest you adjust your opinion for this excellent biography. Alexis Greene has written…
When the Homes of Tomorrow exhibit opened at Chicago’s 1933 Century of Progress, George Fred Keck’s design for a solar-powered glass house was a radical move into the future. Today, we can celebrate the evolution of solar power over the…
It seems like it’s all about basketball but it really isn’t—until it finally is. King James, the wickedly funny world premiere play by Rajiv Joseph, is on stage at Steppenwolf Theatre to give us something else to think about during…
Idle Muse Theatre takes on the difficult task of staging Shakespeare’s Pericles with excitement along with the hero’s journeys to find love and home. Upon This Shore: A Tale of Pericles and the Daughters of Tyre, is adapted and directed…
Did you think we would come in first and beat out Boston as the most Irish city? No, but we are second, because of the size of our Irish-American population, the number of Irish-themed restaurants and pubs, and number of…
Hadestown is a tragedy of human love and suffering and it will make you happy with its joyous, percussive music and slick dance performances. The musical production, based on the Orpheus and Eurydice story from Greek mythology, is on a…
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