Albert Chen (Christopher Thomas Pow) is sitting on a park bench eating what appears to be a burrito or a hot pocket when a hunched old man, dressed in an intersection of athleisure and preppie that signals respectability, comfort, and a baseline certainty of invisibility, shuffles in. “Hey! You Chinese?” he hollers. Albert, though he […]
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The onstage season was short, but there was plenty of drama in 2020
Getting back to normal isn’t going to happen. And in many ways, it shouldn’t.
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COVID-19 has Chicago theater down, but not out
Here’s a reminder of what the theater community has done in the last five years.
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Teenage Dick livestreams Shakespeare by way of high school
Theater Wit’s production about a disabled schemer carries on online.