Cosmic Body @ MCA Stage: Recreating the Dreamachine
Back in the day when record players were originally popular and William Burroughs still roamed the earth, he and fellow…
The Greenhouse Theater Center’s Jacob Harvey on Embracing the Individual
One may allegedly be the loneliest number, but at the Greenhouse Theater Center, Artistic Director Jacob Harvey would like to…
Chicago Slam Works’ “Incendium”: A Hell of a Show
“Everybody looks better once they die.” Welcome to your orientation to the afterlife. In a gritty, dungeon-like club, the cast…
aMID Festival a Celebration of Movement
Performers threw themselves against the wall, stood nearly motionless practically balanced on their heads for minutes on end, carried…
Neil LaBute X 11: Profiles Theatre Proves the Value of Great Writing
An evening of Vices. An evening of Virtues. That’s how Profiles Theatre describes the collection of 11 short plays…
Mercury Theater’s Sherlock Holmes Tries to Make Its Pleasantries Elementary
“Do you really believe in 100 years, people will be talking about Sherlock?” Says Michael Aaron Lindner as Sir Arthur…
Kicking Off “Shakespeare 400 Chicago” with Robust Russian Measure for Measure
Shakespeare in Russian rocks, especially when you start the evening with a shot (OK, shots) of vodka in a “Shakespeare…
Oracle Rekindles Message in O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape 94 years later
Oracle Productions’ new play, The Hairy Ape, was one of Eugene O’Neill’s early works, written in 1922. It’s written in…
Hedwig Dances Finds New Home in the New Year
Hedwig Dances kicked off the new year with a move to the Ruth Page Center for the Arts. Headed by founder…
Another Word for Beauty—A Musical Beauty Pageant Behind Bars Goes Awry
The world premiere of Another Word for Beauty at the Goodman Theatre was packed. Written by playwright Jose Rivera, the…
The Mutilated at Red Orchid Celebrates a Joyous Goofy Christmas
A Red Orchid Theatre has mounted a joyous, goofy production of a Tennessee Williams eccentric rarity, The Mutilated. Oh,…
Timeline’s Sunset Baby Is a Tough Story of Broken Dreams
The bluesy, politically charged music of Nina Simone is the aural background for Sunset Baby, Timeline Theatre’s Chicago premiere of…
