The Movement You Need: An Evening With Brendan Hunt, directed by Ashley Rodbro, is a humorous and deeply touching dive into the life of Emmy and SAG Award winner and […]
What’s true? Of course, there’s no manageable answer to that. But it’s hard to avoid asking that question throughout Teatro Vista’s world premiere of Paloma Nozicka’s Both, co-produced by Steppenwolf […]
Burt Bacharach’s music is famously hard to play and all‑too‑easy to cheapen. The show’s excellent Chicago‑based band proves the former with dazzling precision, while the production ladles on the latter […]
The Dover Road is a vintage play, a comedy of manners with a twist. Ghostlight Ensemble is staging the 1921 A.A. Milne script, directed by Holly Robison, in an interesting […]
Last weekend, Lyric Opera of Chicago staged its world premiere of Safronia, a new work by avery r. young, Chicago’s inaugural poet laureate and a celebrated interdisciplinary artist. Safronia is […]
Static-Head, the new science fiction play by Impostors Theatre Co., lectures about the cost of artificial intelligence: it strips creativity, it combines old ideas without contributing anything new. Yet the […]
You know how kids try to avoid going to bed at night? If you’re a parent or grandparent or sitter, you know the drill. Mama, I’m not sleepy. Will you […]
Around 30 years after Rent first appeared in New York, Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal brought an anniversary concert to the Athenaeum Center last Thursday night and delivered an electric […]
Giordano Dance Chicago lit up the Harris Theater last week with Ignite the Soul; the program featured three world premieres and restaged dances that felt fresh and well-placed. The last […]
Chicago Shakespeare’s production of Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor has a stellar cast in modern environs. This has been a year of Sir John Falstaff getting his comeuppance, as […]
The true marker of a successful magic show is not whether the audience speaks those five inevitable words—“How did they do that?”—but in the magician’s ability to captivate the crowd […]
August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is a play about music. Yes… about the blues. Yes… about the eponymous singer. And yes… about the heart‑breaking circumstances in which her recordings […]