Your 3CR Guide to a Better April
Stages As April shakes off the frost in our frozen town, things start to heat up in many amazing and terrible ways. Flowers spring out of the plastic-bag-encrusted earth, gang […]
weAREproductions Damns Love, Lies in Fleetwood Macbeth at Public House Theatre
Writer/director and weAREproductions co-founder Ricky W. Glore has set the Scottish play in a 70s radio station. King (Duncan, played by lanky Aaron Sarka) is the reigning disc jockey with […]
Sparse, Specific Kill Floor at ATC a Thrilling Character Study
American Theater Company‘s Midwest premiere of playwright Abe Koogler’s contemporary drama Kill Floor is a searing character study in desperation and the search for meaningful connection. Set in a small town in […]
The Eclectic Sounds of the Millennium Park Summer Music Series
The Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events has released a partial line-up for the Millennium Park Summer Music Series. The event will offer free concerts at the Jay Pritzker […]
A Surprise in the Process: An Artist-Curated Show Exploring Chance
Approaching the theme of chance from conceptual, material, and formal perspectives, eleven Chicago-based artists formed A Surprise in the Process at Chicago Art Department. Featuring painting, photography, robotic and interactive […]
“A Man Alive”: Thao Nguyen talks new record before Thalia Hall show
San Francisco-based Thao & The Get Down Stay Down is back with the band’s fourth record, “A Man Alive.” Since its release earlier this month, the record has been praised […]
The Hypocrites’ Adding Machine Anything But Mediocre
Amidst a cloud of haze and the repeated plunking of a piano key, a nondescript man hunches over his desk, writing feverishly. By the time everyone has found their seats, the monotonous […]
Court’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night: Dysfunctional Family Masterpiece
[soliloquy id=”3269″] Photos by Michael Brosilow. A friend says that all great stories are about dysfunctional families. Certainly much of the best modern theater is about dysfunctional families. You have […]
Preview: Loyola University Chicago to Celebrate Carl Sandburg’s Chicago Poems
“Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning. Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job […]
Matilda, a Musical Bookworms Can Rejoice To
I had to borrow a kid to go see Matilda. I also had to put aside my usual prejudice towards musicals. But no one was forcing Matilda on me. […]
Gift Theatre’s Richard III A Robo-Usurper
Michael Patrick Thornton in The Gift Theatre’s Richard III. Photo by Claire Demos. The real Richard III perhaps wasn’t such a bad chap, not the “bottled spider” Shakespeare would have […]
Writers Theatre Opens New Venue with Sparkling Arcadia
[soliloquy id=”3199″] 1809–Thomasina and Septimus. Present–Valentine, Bernard, Chloe and Hannah. Photos by Michael Brosilow. Writers Theatre opened its spectacular new theater in Glencoe this week with an appropriately spectacular production […]