Review: Timeline Theatre Presents the Soul of a Nation on Display in The Chinese Lady
The Chinese Lady by Timeline Theatre Company
Review: Wired by Kinetic Light Smashes Barriers and Demonstrates Equitable Artistic Access
Projections of light traced the movements of the dancers on the floor, shadows of them spinning and bouncing in their chairs were cast along the sidewalls of the Museum of […]
Dialogs: Ambassador Maria Yovanovitch Explains Ukraine at Chicago Humanities Festival
Ambassador Maria Yovanovitch Explains Ukraine
Review: With The Old Man and the Pool, Mike Birbiglia Returns to a Winning Formula of Heart and Humor
Over the last 15 years or so, chances are you’ve come across comedian, author, filmmaker, podcaster and storyteller Mike Birbiglia. It could be you’ve been a fan of his (like […]
Dialogs: Anita Hill Talks About Need to Believe Women in Chicago Humanities Festival Event
The Chicago Humanities Festival has been offering in-person programs under the spring theme of “Public.” Two programs on May 7 at the UIC Dorin Center featured law professor Anita Hill […]
Review: Ribaldry and Laughs in Matt Murphy’s Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man
Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man
Review: House Theatre Unearths the History of Haiti with The Tragedy of King Christophe
If we depended on the news media to learn the history of the island nation of Haiti, we would not know a lot of substance. Various dictators, earthquakes, and humanitarian […]
Review: In Red Orchid’s Tense Last Hermanos, Two Brothers Are Desperate to Escape Across the Border
Last Hermanos by Exal Iraheta is a play about two brothers, set at some time now or in the recent past or near future, in an abandoned visitor center in a […]
Review: Porchlight’s Excellent Spring Awakening Rings an Alarm
Just over 130 years ago, when the German Empire was young and the 19th century was old, the German expressionist playwright Frank Wedekind wrote eine Kindertragödie (the play’s subtitle) called […]
Review: Chicago Opera Theater’s Quamino’s Map Pulls the Curtain Back on Black Life in the Georgian Era
Quamino’s Map is the 22nd opera by the Belizean-born composer Errollyn Wallen who trained at the University of London and Cambridge. The libretto is by playwright Deborah Brevoort and the […]
Review: Shana Cooper’s Direction Adds Zest to All’s Well That Ends Well at Chicago Shakespeare
Helen is a bright, attractive young woman, but, sad to say, she’s not royal. So Bertram/Count of Rossillion, the man she loves for reasons not clear, scorns her. The daughter […]
Review: Glad to Have the Time Together—Carol Burnett at the Chicago Theatre
Back in 2020, comedy icon Carol Burnett was scheduled to bring her one-woman show, “An Evening of Reflection and Laughter,” to the equally iconic Chicago Theatre. Then a global pandemic […]