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Review: The Surreal Journey of South Chicago Dance Theatre’s Season Eight

South Chicago Dance Theatre’s season eight, featuring surreal themes that challenge the mind and the body, premiered at the Auditorium on May 3. Although I had seen another company attempt a […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • May 6, 2025
    • Dialogs , Events , Interviews , Lit , Stages , Talk show

    Dialogs: Talks About Tyranny Triumph at the Chicago Humanities Fest and ACLU Lunch

    For “Lakeview Day 2025,” the Chicago Humanities Festival featured two tyranny experts, each for an hour-long interview followed by a brief Q&A, on April 27 at the Athenaeum Theatre. The […]

  • Karin McKie
  • May 6, 2025
    • Film & TV , Lit , Music , Nonfiction , Stages , Television

    Review: Sadness at the End of a World, Unstaged Grief: Musicals and Mourning in Midcentury America, by Jake Johnson

    The title of Jake Johnson’s latest book—Unstaged Grief: Musicals and Mourning in Midcentury America—is more than a bit jarring. It’s that part about “Musicals and Mourning” that seems so odd. […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • May 6, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater , Theater Festival

    Review:  Theatre of the Absurd Festival With Surreal Plays by Three Master Playwrights Launched by Gwydion Theatre and Chopin Theatre

    Theater fans can get a new appreciation of theater of the absurd this month with eight short plays being staged by Gwydion Theatre over the next few weekends. We saw three of […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • May 5, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Frankenstein’s Creature, Played by Neurodivergent Performers, at Chicago Shakespeare Theater

    The ensemble A.B.L.E., Artists Breaking Limits & Expectations, presented a 90-minute “re-wiring” of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein April 25-27 at Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s Upstairs Studio. Nine neurodivergent actors, including a team […]

  • Karin McKie
  • May 4, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: At The Wake Of A Dead Drag Queen Reflects on Family, Blackness, and Queer Identity

    The audience is given a fan as the entry pass to Story Theatre’s At the Wake of a Dead Drag Queen, written by Terry Guest. There is no doubt that […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • April 30, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Court Theatre Stages a Masterful Adaptation of Jason Lutes’ Berlin

    Jason Lutes took some 20 years to complete his graphic novel, Berlin. Condensing Lutes’ 550-page magnum opus into theatrical language is no easy feat but Court Theatre has brought it […]

  • June Sawyers
  • April 30, 2025
    • Review , Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Red Theater’s Kairos Probes Questions of Eternal Love—and Life

    Kairos pits a newly formed couple against a sci-fi trope—technological revolution. When a new and selective procedure called Prometheus offers the couple synthetic immortality, they struggle, in a very human […]

  • Anthony Neri
  • April 28, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Citadel Theatre’s A Jukebox for the Algonquin Offers Broad Laughs and a Big Heart

    Paul Stroili’s A Jukebox for the Algonquin, currently onstage at Citadel Theatre, does not take place anywhere near the famous literary watering hole. Instead, everything happens in a recreation room […]

  • Susan Lieberman
  • April 23, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Northlight and Theater Wit Join Hands for a Powerful Prayer for the French Republic

    “For not only one enemy has risen up against us to destroy us, but in every generation they rise up to destroy us….” That stark bit of liturgy—the V’hi She’amdah—is […]

  • Doug Mose
  • April 20, 2025
    • Dance , Review , Stages

    Review: Parsons Dance Returns with a Funhouse of Dance, Smoke, and Mirrors

    Parsons Dance rolled into town last weekend after being away for 30 years. The company was founded in 1985 by artistic director and choreographer David Parsons. The advertising promised an […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • April 15, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Victory Gardens Stages Henry Johnson, a New David Mamet Drama About a Simple Man Who Fails…at Everything

    This is a review of a new play by David Mamet…. Although any mention of David Mamet today can turn into something else entirely. For instance, how many playwrights attract […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • April 15, 2025
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