“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 […]
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G7Rh3oFtPo] Talk shows are usually the province of TV and guys in swanky studios in New York or Burbank. There are a handful of them in Chicago, and one […]
This weekend marks the sixth annual Joffrey Ballet Winning Works program, which recognizing African, Latino, Asian, Arab and Native American emerging choreographers. This year, Jeffrey Cirio, Christian Denice and Mariana […]
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 […]
A Phase is an original play written by Broken Nose Theatre Associate Artistic Director Elise Spoerlein which tells the story of Sam, played by Spoerlein, who moves to a new (and crappy) apartment […]
New Country at the Den Theatre is great entertainment before or after a dinner at one of Wicker Park’s many Milwaukee Avenue restaurants. It’s a short, snappy comedy with […]
When going to the theater, you have to make quite a few decisions. What will you wear? How will you get there, by Uber or train? Will you go out […]
William Inge’s A Loss of Roses at Raven Theatre explores the lives of three people in a small Kansas town in Depression-era 1933. The play, directed by Cody Estle, […]
There are many reasons why one would want to root for Broadway in Chicago’s If/Then. For one, it’s not a riff on, say, a ’90s Disney film or Andrew Lloyd […]
At the open of the 40th anniversary season, this past Sunday afternoon the Black Ensemble Theater in Uptown was hopping as the ensemble cast of Doo Wop Shoo Bop revisited […]
An ensemble member walks across the stage at The Neofuturarium to introduce the next short play in the line-up. She gives us the name of the author and what elementary […]