What is it that draws great writers to boxing as a subject? Is it an identification with the sport’s pure brutal (yet calculated) physicality removed from the need for verbal acuity? A way to demonstrate street cred (a kind of reverse snobbery)? For A.J. Liebling, the “sweet science” (at least when viewed in person) was […]
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Mrs. Warren’s Profession confronts our hypocrisies about sex work
Elaine Carlson delivers a biting title performance for Promethean Theatre.
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The Suffrage Plays swaddles social commentary in satire
Three one-acts from the fight for women’s franchise provide a cutting history lesson with Artemisia.
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ShawChicago goes out the way it came in, with The Doctor’s Dilemma
The company ends its run with the same play with which it first debuted in 1994.
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After 25 years, the curtain falls on ShawChicago
Citing dwindling subscriptions, the readers’ theater is packing up its music stands and calling it a day.
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ShawChicago turns a staged reading of Arms and the Man into a symphony
It’s a perfect anti-romantic comedy, just in time for Valentine’s Day.
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Even after a century, Arms and the Man can still bring the laughs
City Lit Theater’s production highlights the genius of George Bernard Shaw.
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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 Comedy of Errors, Marie Christine, and eight more new stage shows to see
A cartoon-inspired staging of the Bard and a creole update of Medea are among this week’s best bets.
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Bachelorette, Hard Times, and 12 more stage shows to see now
A “ferocious ensemble effort” and a pitch-perfect revival are among this week’s best bets.
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Choir Boy, Foxfinder, and 12 more stage shows to see now
A play by Moonlight author Tarell Alvin McCraney and a paranoiac drama by British playwright Dawn Hall are among this week’s best bets.
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Lyric Opera’s Fair Lady is most fair indeed
There’s no need to worry about Lyric Opera’s staging of Lerner and Loewe’s classic musical.
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Spamilton, The Wiz, and seven more stage shows to see now
A Hamilton send-up from the creator of Forbidden Broadway and a vibrant revival from Kokandy Productions are among this week’s best bets.
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Beauty and the Beast, The Complete Deaths, and four more new theater reviews
Short runs at the MCA and Chicago Shakespeare Theater are among this week’s notable shows.
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Parachute Men, You on the Moors Now, and eight more new theater reviews
This week’s stage highlights include three losers who (hopefully) make good and four 19th-century fictional heroines battling their would-be betrotheds.