The Neo-Futurists host a marathon reading of the special counsel’s report.
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Casts of Chicago’s hottest plays send posters to support Parkland students after mass shooting
Theaters from around the country are donating materials to furnish Douglas high school’s drama room “to show love and support.”
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Thirteen holiday shows that will delight (or disgust or bore or just entertain) you
Hell in a Handbag’s 20th annual production of Rudolph the Red-Hosed Reindeer is among the yuletide highlights.
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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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From Scrooge to the Snow Queen: eight stage shows for the holidays
The Goodman’s A Christmas Carol leads the seasonal onslaught.
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Porchlight casting raises questions on the nature of ‘authentic’ theater
The Chicago theater community debates casting for Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes’s In the Heights.
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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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Lookingglass’s Blood Wedding, Strawdog’s D.O.A., and nine more notable current stage shows
García Lorca gets transplanted to the Dust Bowl, and an off-Loop mainstay goes noir.
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Director Henry Wishcamper is teaching old Foxes new tricks at the Goodman
Wishcamper explains how to make an old classic feel relevant again.
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Goodman Theatre’s The Little Foxes gives us a woman to rival Lady Macbeth
Lillian Hellman’s prescient midcentury melodrama is a portrait of rapacity.
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The Steppenwolf stage is alive for The Night Alive
Conor McPherson’s play The Night Alive may not be great, but it’s superb in its goodness.
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Best Three-Hit Run by a Theater Raising $31 Million
While hustling to build its Jeanne Gang-designed dream house, the North Shore theater born in a bookshop put on a brilliant season.
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The Goodman’s wan Ask Aunt Susan could really use some help
The Goodman’s wan Ask Aunt Susan, Seth Bockley’s take on Miss Lonelyhearts, has none of the book’s boldness or bite.
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Writers Theatre does The Dance of Death
Conor McPherson calls Strindberg’s tune in a new adapation of The Dance of Death, now at Writers Theatre.
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A writer picks at the family scab in Other Desert Cities
Goodman Theatre stages Jon Robin Baitz’s Other Desert Cities.