Finding Love with Deeply Rooted Dance Theater
In celebration of February’s Black History Month and Valentine’s Day, Deeply Rooted Dance Theater presents an exploration of love during…
A Family 20 Years Later in Raven’s Assembled Parties
“Times change,” Julie’s neurotic-if-charming sister-in-law, Faye, tells her near the end of The Assembled Parties, now in its Midwest premiere…
Steep Theatre’s Earthquakes in London: A Sly, Carnival-Like Treatment of the Planet’s Demise
Three sisters. Estranged from their climate scientist father. Their lives each upended by climate change. And dozens of other characters.…
Hypocrites’ Season-Ender A Meditation on Life and Death
It is perhaps fitting that the now final show of The Hypocrites’ season–cut short due to financial troubles–is Margaret Edson’s…
Gloria: Ambition and Desperation in a Toxic Office Environment
Have you ever worked in an office—creative or otherwise—where a bunch of young associates groused over their bosses, gossiped about…
Blues for an Alabama Sky Takes Us to 1930 Harlem, Where Dreams Are Made and Broken
The Harlem Renaissance was an era of great creativity in the arts that progressed through the 1920s, but the Great…
A Disappearing Number at Timeline Theatre Is a Joyous Intellectual Brain-Teaser
A Disappearing Number is a multi-layered, complex story of love and math over the course of a century. Timeline Theatre’s…
Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice: A Quirky Twist on Greek Mythology at Promethean Theatre
Sarah Ruhl’s sweet, quirky Eurydice retells the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, but focuses on the bride rather than on…
The Hunter and the Bear at Writers Theatre A Scarily Inventive Ghost Story
In 2013, during Writers Theatre’s final season in the Women’s Library Club building, PigPen Theatre Co. made their Chicago debut…
Chicago Theaters to Participate in Ghostlight Project on Inauguration Eve
Chicago theaters will participate in the Ghostlight Project at 5:30pm on Thursday, January 19, to affirm their commitment to diversity…
ATC’s Men on Boats Surveys the American West and the Gender Landscape
Men on Boats, a regional premiere now on stage at American Theater Company, is the story of the 1869 exploration…
Winner…of Our Discontent Wins Us Over at Second City
It was back in March that Chicago came out in force to protest the Trump rally and forced it out…
