Review: DOGS by Red Theater Portrays Five Women in Red-Hot Competition
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Dialogs: Bridget Everett and Jeff Hiller at the Chicago Humanities Festival—a Celebration of Somebody, Somewhere
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Review: Mercy Killing Brings Anxious Queerness, Murder, and Romance to Open Space Arts
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Review: Music Theater Works Presents a Familiar, Fun Little Shop of Horrors
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Review: Second City e.t.c. Puts on a Must-See Night of Fun With Best Kept Secret—Tell Everyone
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Review: Kokandy’s Into the Woods Depicts a Marvelous Forest, Bumps Into a Few Trees
This review offers some tough love. Love for Kokandy Productions, for its ambitions and scope, for its actors and musicians. But I’m also going to add a tough critique for […]
Review: Racism Remembered as Edgar Arceneaux Revisits Ben Vereen’s Performance for Reagan’s 1981 Inauguration
The Museum of Contemporary Art hosted a 50-minute performance of Edgar Arceneaux’s Until, Until, Until… for three performances in October. The LA-based writer/director/producer/performer devised the production 10 years ago to […]
Review: Manual Cinema’s Frankenstein— Beautiful Handmade Horror
Something very wonderful is on stage at the Studebaker Theater this pre-Halloween weekend. A haunting affair, one part horror and another strange beauty, the Chicago-based Emmy-award-winning performance collective Manual Cinema […]
Review: Some Like It Hot, We Get It Tepid
Billy Wilder’s 1959 Some Like It Hot is widely considered a perfect film: witty and surprising, silly and sexy—a culmination of Wilder’s brilliant career and a showcase for its stars […]
Review: In Remy Bumppo’s Dear Elizabeth, Two Poets Reflect on Their Lives and Work in Their Letters
A pair of poets, in love with words, are sort of, possibly, in love with each other. Or not. That’s the theme of Dear Elizabeth, an epistolary play by Sarah Ruhl. […]
Review: Ruth on the Rocks Plays a Mixtape Down Memory Lane as Part of Destinos International Latino Theater Festival
This year marks the 7th Destinos International Latino Theater Festival, which brings a variety of performances from as far as Spain and Argentina to the Back of the Yards neighborhood […]
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Babes with Blades Is a Fun and Feisty Take on Fairyland
Each iteration of A Midsummer Night’s Dream presents a different version of the confounding and enchanted woods in which the characters lose themselves. Audience members walk in, wondering how this […]