Looking for some things to do this weekend and beyond? We’ve got you covered, whether you’re craving theater, dinner, comedy, or . . . stripper drag clowns? Read on, readers! Fri 11/12 Bridge Dance Festival returns to Links Hall (virtually!) tonight and tomorrow, with streamed performances beginning at 7 PM. A project of Asian Improv […]
Tag: Athenaeum Theatre
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The Two Character Play gets the context it deserves.
Tennessee Williams’s oft-revised story delivers to arresting effect with Theatre L’Acadie.
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If/Then needs star power to compensate for its shallow story
Brown Paper Box Co. struggles to make sense of its parallel storylines.
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Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them is Christopher Durang at his darkest
Eclipse Theatre’s all-Durang seasons finishes strong with a brutal black comedy about post-9/11 paranoia.
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Theatre L’Acadie makes a promising debut with 70 Scenes of Halloween
Jeffrey M. Jones’s 1990 play about the horrors of disintegrating relationships gets a rare revival with a brand-new company.
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The Gamergate-inspired drama Non-Player Character doesn’t bother to challenge audience assumptions
It provides all the answers to the central dilemma that you’d expect.
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A failed interrogation into the idea of control, An Oak Tree is instead a benevolent dictatorship
The whole thing unintentionally channels the terrors of the Twilight Zone.
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In Dear Brutus, J. M. Barrie takes his not-quite-grown-up characters to another sort of Neverland
A strong cast makes a stiff story soar.
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Fellow Travelers brings the 1950s ‘lavender scare’ to opera
Boy meets boy amid McCarthy-era witch hunts in Fellow Travelers, the opera.
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Emanuel proposes ride-sharing fee increases, 911 phone tax increases in 2018 budget, and other Chicago news
Also, CTU president Karen Lewis is recovering from a stroke in the hospital.
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Eddie Izzard, the Chicago Podcast Festival, and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week
Violet Hour celebrates its tenth anniversary, Fleet Foxes perform at the Chicago Theatre, and more happenings from October 2-5.
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Judge continues block of Cook County ‘pop tax’ until at least Friday, and other Chicago news
Also, the EPA approved Chicago’s dry ice method of killing rats.
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Pilgrims, The Water Children, and six more new stage shows to see (or avoid)
A world premiere at Gift Theatre and a play about abortion are among this week’s notable plays.
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Renegade Craft Fair Pop-Up in Pilsen, Home Theater Festival, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend
Morgan Parker talks There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, Mother’s Day Brunch, and more happenings from May 12-14
Posted inFilm
A local documentary maker stages his great-grandfather’s lost Colombian opera
With The Way to Andina, Arlen Parsa records his journey from filmmaker to musical impresario.