“Beginning with the Fool’s card in the Tarot deck, this circus cabaret style show exposes our unconscious thoughts and desires.” A new kind of show will premiere at Chopin Theatre on Thursday, July 20. The […]
The American Theater Company is remounting its stirring documentary play, The Project(s), this month, performed in an abbreviated 50-minute version by the ATC Youth Ensemble. The production, which tells the story of the […]
Two 3CR writers—Nancy and [Karin]—went to see Erik Jensen’s one-man performance of the life and times of rock critic Lester Bangs. Nancy wrote the review and Karin added comments. This is what […]
Friday, June 30, is the time to get your gothic on for a good cause, and for a night of entertainment. Collaboraction Theatre Company is hosting Darkest Before Dawn: A Dark Circus […]
Ah, Wilderness!, Eugene O’Neill’s only comedy, is a charming, light-hearted play with an element foreign to most O’Neill scripts: a happy ending. The hero, teenaged Richard Miller (truthfully played by Niall Cunningham) […]
The backroom of a dive bar is hardly where one expects to find fresh voices in contemporary performance art. Then again, The Hideout has never been just a dive bar. An unassuming […]
Hitler on the Roof, I was happy to learn, is not a parody of Fiddler with Hitler playing Tevye. No, it’s a tragicomedy subtitled “A Play for Two Clowns.” The setting is […]
Have you heard about Pass Over? It’s a play written by Antoinette Nwandu reworking Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot that opened at Steppenwolf Theatre last week. Pass Over uses the structure of absurdist theater to explore racial oppression […]
Based on E.L. Doctorow’s 1975 novel, Ragtime, now playing in a production by Griffin Theatre Company at the Den Theatre, weaves together three families’ stories at the beginning of the 20th century. […]
Set in 1913 Atlanta and written in 1998 (the same year it won two Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Original Score), Parade recounts the events surrounding the lynching of Leo […]
Sixty-one years ago, Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino launched the Joffrey Ballet in New York City. Twenty-two years ago, the company made a sudden exit, making a surprise relocation to Chicago. This […]
Giordano Dance Chicago dancers Joshua Blake Carter and Rachael Berube take their final bows as company members June 10 during Giordano Dance Chicago’s closing performance of its 54th season. The show, part […]