The cosmic void crashes a kid’s birthday party in the Hypocrites’ incongruously cutesified staging of Samuel Beckett’s Endgame.
Tag: Den Theatre
Posted inArts & Culture
A drag diva descends upon Beaverlick in Music Hall
Jeffrey Binder plays the female Artiste in this drama from TUTA.
Posted inArts & Culture
The Hypocrites’ new Pinafore flips the sexes as an opening move
H.M.S. Pinafore, Sean Graney’s latest Gilbert & Sullivan adaptation for the Hypocrites, flips the sexes as an opening move.
Posted inBlogs
How a grandmother’s 1950s friendship with a gay photographer wound up on a Chicago stage
Diana Fruend, grandmother of local director Jake Fruend, talks about seeing the story of her friendship with an openly gay photographer in the 1950s come to life.
Posted inArts & Culture
All Our Tragic combines 32 Greek tragedies into a playful 12-hour production
The Hypocrites balance serious fare with a bubblegum-pop sensibility in All Our Tragic.
Posted inBest of Chicago
Best Theater Lobby That Makes You Wish Intermission Would Never End
The Wicker Park venue offers something practically unheard of in the off-Loop theater scene: a comfy place to rest your weary ass.
Posted inBlogs
Reader’s Agenda Thu 6/5: Musical Theatre Fest, Rapid Pulse, and Vampire Weekend
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Thursday, June 5
Posted inBlogs
Reader’s Agenda Sun 12/29: Whiskey, Frankincake & Myrrh, Blast of Silence, and Christmas Bingo
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Sunday, December 29
Posted inBlogs
On puppetry and paper hats: Behind the scenes of The Paper Hat Game
Torry Bend talks about how she created her new multimedia puppet show based on a real story from the el.
Posted inArts & Culture
Rich and Famous and ridiculous and devastating
Jackalope Theatre Company stages John Guare’s Rich and Famous.
Posted inBlogs
“Goofball perfection” to emotion-killing monologues: this week’s performing arts reviews
Fresh performing arts reviews by Reader critics