Invictus Theatre’s intimate, bare-bones modern-dress staging of Hamlet is storefront Shakespeare at its best. The company’s stated aim is to “promote a better understanding . . . of heightened language . . . to express the breadth of the human condition,” and this dynamic, clearly spoken non-Equity production delivers. Director Charles Askenaizer guides the ensemble […]
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A new Hamlet puts the prince of Denmark in a context all too familiar to many Chicagoans
Chicago Shakespeare’s staging draws upon the concept of a legacy interrupted and destroyed by racial violence.
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Serpentwithfeet and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend
The film The Train of Salt and Sugar and more goings-on 6/29-7/1.
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Daniel Kyri turns in a triumphant performance in the Gift’s Hamlet
He brings utter control over the language and a quality of hard-won majesty to the role.
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Errol Morris’s Wormwood should have been a film, not a miniseries
The acclaimed documentary filmmaker’s new Netflix show is an interesting, if overlong, history lesson
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Barney the Elf, Hellcab, and ten more new stage shows
The best-ever explanation for what makes reindeer fly and the 25th anniversary of a Chicago classic are among this week’s best bets.
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Still Dance the Stars and two more new stage shows for the long weekend
Personal stories become fodder for improv scenes in this week’s best bet. Plus: New Millennium’s death by thee and thou
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The Amish Project, Hitch*cocktails, and seven more new stage shows to see now
A one-woman show about a terrible tragedy and an improvised thriller performed under the influence are among this week’s best bets.
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2016 in theater was wildly convulsive on- and offstage
Controversies over abuse, alleged druggings, and “whitewashing” roiled even as Shakespeare 400 Chicago soared.
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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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Chicago Shakespeare’s King Charles III owes less to the Bard than to Sophocles
A political dinosaur makes a last stand in Mike Bartlett’s drama.
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Court Theatre concludes its House of Atreus trilogy with a Hamlet-like Electra
Sandra Marquez and Kate Fry are darkly fascinating as Sophocles’s murderous queen and her obsessed daughter.
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Ten best bets for fall theater
A satanic hand puppet, a live version of Cheers, and a Twelfth Night in Hindi are among this season’s highlights.
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How Chicago theater artists are diversifying the city’s stages
Efforts are underway to make Chicago’s theater less uniformly white, thin, able-bodied, and gender-conforming.
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What to see at Shakespeare 400 Chicago
We pare the year-long catalog of events down just a little bit.