Chicago Paris Cabaret Connexion is a week-long festival running October 28 through November 4 that brings together cabaret performers from the U.S. and France to explore the artistry and history behind cabaret singing, […]
Spring Green is an arts center in nearby south central Wisconsin that’s easily accessible to Chicagoans interested in theater and the work of Frank Lloyd Wright. In a long weekend, you can […]
Physical Festival Chicago is about to launch its 5th year at Stage 773 June 1-9, and is fast becoming a highlight of Chicago’s festival arts happenings. Still new and independent enough to […]
Chicago’s longest-running fringe festival, the annual Rhinoceros Theater Festival, now in its 29th year, is presenting shows six nights a week through February 25. Rhinofest is produced by Prop Thtr and Curious […]
Physical Fest is back and full of interesting program surprises as usual. There is a modernist fable titled Memory of Dust, a peak in to the life of the Confetti Maker, a […]
Arlene Malinowski has written and performs in A Little Bit Not Normal, her solo show about struggles with depression, personified here, peppered with humor as well as sign language, since she’s the […]
The 2nd annual Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival is about to be unleashed upon Chicago just in time to distract us from the deep freeze of winter. Playing at multiple venues January […]
“For God’s sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings; How some have been deposed; some slain in war, Some haunted by the ghosts […]
In June, British actor and playwright Tim Crouch got his Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead on with his hysterical, empirical take on Twelfth Night’s Malvolio, and returns to Chicago Shakespeare as adapter […]
Mary-Arrchie’s theater space at Angel Island is gone, but the theater closes out its history with a final event in the spirit of “Abbie Hoffman Died for Our Sins.” The 28th annual […]
Shylock’s daughter, Jessica (Phoebe Pryce) and Shylock (her real-life father Jonathan Pryce) in Shakespeare’s Globe’s The Merchant of Venice at Chicago Shakespeare Theater (photo by Manuel Harlan). Director Jonathan Munby infuses the humor he brought to last […]
Thick-haired David Carl’s loony yet logical mash-up won the Outstanding Solo Performance Award at the New York Fringe, and adds a splash of pop culture irreverence to the litany of Shakespeare 400 […]
