Ayad Akhtar’s new novel, Homeland Elegies, begins like a memoir. Written in the first person, it’s about the narrator’s Pakistani immigrant father who believes in the American dream. Father was “minting money” […]
In the days of a life-destroying virus, it seems perverse to stage a production titled We’re Gonna Die. Yet Theatre Y bravely undertakes this work, a one-woman play by Young Jean Lee, […]
It’s fall and the time when Chicago theaters begin their new seasons. That’s the “old normal,” however, and nothing is normal these days. But although we can’t gather in small storefronts or […]
Kane Repertory Theatre, of west suburban St. Charles, is running the third cycle of its New Play Lab series, featuring a work-in–progress play each week. It’s part of a workshopping process that’s […]
Chicago theater companies took a while to figure out how to respond to the COVID-19 lockdown and continuing restrictions. (And theater companies, small and large, are suffering debilitating financial losses during the […]
It may be theater…or perhaps film. But it’s not exactly a play. It’s a surreal symphony of exotic makeup and dynamic video editing with original music and voices that speak of hunger, […]
Chicago has been letting businesses reopen their doors for quite a while now. So if you’re going to a drive-in movie (like Chicago Drive In, Drive-in at Lincoln Yards Lot, ChiTown Movies, […]
Manual Cinema’s 10th Anniversary Retrospectacular, launched this week, will bring back four of the company’s most inventive shows from the past 10 years. The four productions will be shown on multi-camera, high-definition […]
Chicago Children’s Theatre is partnering with Honk for Justice Chicago for two demonstrations this week to demand justice for George Floyd and police reform. The two demonstrations today and tomorrow will feature […]
It was just serendipity that the Chicago Humanities Festival scheduled two screenwriters with hot new novels two weeks in a row for their livestream show. Well, serendipity and the fact that the […]
Plans for the 7th annual Physical Theater Festival were full steam ahead when the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic in March and Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed a […]
American Blues Theater is offering “Classes for the Masses” with small classes taught by ensemble members in various arts and cultural practices. You’ll receive four hours of coaching or consulting in each […]
