The Kates Prove Chicago Comedy Can Help You Get Thru Winter Misery
So Chicago is pretty good, right? The weather is shit, but it’s just as miserable and gray in Minneapolis or Milwaukee or Cleveland or Buffalo. Unlike those cities, in Chicago […]
Winner…of Our Discontent Wins Us Over at Second City
It was back in March that Chicago came out in force to protest the Trump rally and forced it out of town. And while that pushback and protest didn’t precede […]
The Body Count is High and Hilarious in The Complete Deaths at Chicago Shakes
In June, British actor and playwright Tim Crouch got his Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead on with his hysterical, empirical take on Twelfth Night’s Malvolio, and returns to Chicago Shakespeare […]
Trevor Noah on His Mother and Donald Trump in Discussion at the Music Box
The last day of the Chicago Humanities Festival ended at the Music Box Theatre with a discussion between the “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah and the editor of his memoir, Chris Jackson. […]
Lyric Opera’s Longer! Louder! Wagner! The Second City Wagner Companion A Fleeting Primer
Jesse Case (left) plays piano as well as Richard Wagner alongside bonafide opera singers Jonah D. Winston (center) and Tracy Cantin (right) in “Longer! Louder! Wagner,” a collaboration between the Lyric […]
Faith in a Sleight of Hand: Love and Polar Bears in Windy City Playhouse’s Apartment 3A
Do you believe in God? How about in magic, or nature? Do you believe in love? Windy City Playhouse’s Apartment 3A, led by Eleni Pappageorge as Annie, José Antonio Garcia […]
Step Back into the ’80s with Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding
Have you ever been to a truly tacky wedding? Members of the wedding party had several disruptive arguments. A lot of allusions were made to the bride and groom’s sex […]
Preview: Cook County Social Club Returns to IO for Two Performances
Guest Author Patrick McManus is a stand-up comic living and working in Chicago. Patrick is a real cool guy who won the 100 Proof Comedy’s Chicago’s Top College Comedian Competition […]
Highs and Lows from the Comedy Exposition
Guest Author Patrick McManus is a stand-up comic living and working in Chicago. Patrick is a real cool guy who won the 100 Proof Comedy’s Chicago’s Top College Comedian Competition […]
PREVIEW: See stand up all weekend at The Comedy Exposition
Guest Author Patrick McManus is a stand-up comic living and working in Chicago. Patrick is a real cool guy who won the 100 Proof Comedy’s Chicago’s Top College Comedian Competition […]
CST Channels the Befuddled Busey as the Melancholy Dane in David Carl’s Celebrity One-Man Hamlet
Thick-haired David Carl’s loony yet logical mash-up won the Outstanding Solo Performance Award at the New York Fringe, and adds a splash of pop culture irreverence to the litany of […]
CST’s Doreen Sayegh Brings the Bard to the City of Big Shoulders with Shakespeare 400 Chicago
Doreen Sayegh has been a skosh busy. Playwright and quote-machine William Shakespeare died 400 years ago this year, and a few folks still like to produce his work, so […]