British playwright Caryl Churchill is having a bit of a moment this month in Chicago. Court Theatre opens her rarely produced 1983 play, Fen, under the direction of Vanessa Stalling on February 10. And Curious Theatre Branch opens This Is Not a Churchill—four plays inspired by her work—this weekend at the Facility Theatre in Humboldt […]
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First Folio debuts new play by a late, great comedic playwright
Kristine Thatcher and the late Larry Shue’s Waiting for Tina Meyer celebrates barfly connections.
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Shrew’d! attempts to make Taming of the Shrew palatable to a modern audience
When in doubt, they sing it out.
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The romance of books: the Newberry Library at 125
A special exhibit displays some of the exquisite items in the Newberry’s vast collection, on the occasion of the library’s 125th anniversary