The fall theater season has brought several shows about women surviving trauma—and reclaiming their stories.
The fall theater season has brought several shows about women surviving trauma—and reclaiming their stories.
Tag: Den Theatre
The Fly Honey Show hits double digits
The body-positive burlesque-inspired hive of performance queens fills the Den.
The One: The Matrix Musical Parody is a show behind the times
The sight gags score, but the music falls short in this spoof/homage of the Wachowskis’ sci-fi classic.
Four Places hovers brilliantly between public pleasantries and private dysfunction
Adult children confront the past and future lives of their aging parents over lunch.
My Name is Rachel Corrie shows that tragic source material doesn’t make great drama
Sitting through this play is like spending an hour and a half with a Greenpeace volunteer on the street.
In Charlie Johnson Reads All of Proust, a small-town Hoosier goes in search of lost time
Cornmeal mush is his madeleine.
The holiday miracle that gave Agency Theater Collective its Hellcab cab
The onstage taxi has a dramatic backstory.
Plainclothes takes a look behind the security cameras at a department store
It doesn’t quite ring true, but it’s still a successful work comedy.
Surrealistic elements help Hooded, or Being Black for Dummies transcend its sitcom origins
Like the black experience, the show is messy, fun, shocking, and unpredictable.
The dystopian Endeavor Mind could do with a little less certainty
The script’s strict logic is its greatest weakness.
Firebrand’s Caroline, or Change revels in tension, both racial and domestic
Firebrand’s production features fearless, fantastic singers.
Reeling Film Festival, 312 Block Party, and more to do in Chicago this weekend
The World Music Festival wraps up and more happenings around town.
Brett Schneider’s brand of magic creates Communion
The “shared hallucinations” feel like real illusions.
The ghost stories in Second Skin move from creepy to compelling to haunting
Playwright Kristin Idaszak weaves together horrors real and imagined.
The play The Harvest and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week
Bump J at the Promontory and more goings on 8/20-8/24.