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Art for The Sound Inside
Posted inArts & Culture

Live at the Goodman offers three views on loss and reinvention

by Melissa Renee Perry May 11, 2021May 19, 2022

Plays by Adam Rapp, Adrienne Kennedy, and Ike Holter make a livestream connection with audiences.

Posted inArts & Culture

The Chimes and I Hate It Here ring out a horrible year

by Kerry Reid December 18, 2020August 18, 2021

Charles Dickens and Ike Holter are unlikely twin spirit guides in two online shows.

Posted inArts & Culture

Chicago theater on the page

by Kerry Reid July 22, 2020August 18, 2021

A very incomplete guide on what to read (or listen to) now from Chicago’s theater scene.

Posted inArts & Culture

Victory Gardens playwrights ensemble resigns

by Catey Sullivan May 25, 2020August 18, 2021

Restructuring at the top causes an exodus—again.

Posted inArts & Culture

Hannah Ii-Epstein revisits Hawaii’s drug trade in Pakalolo Sweet

by Jack Helbig September 11, 2019August 18, 2021

The playwright’s second play in a trilogy comes from a place of personal experience and pain.

Posted inArts & Culture

In Red Rex, Ike Holter’s Chicago Cycle gets meta

by Jack Helbig January 31, 2019August 18, 2021

A play about a storefront theater playing in a storefront theater

Posted inArts & Culture

Ike Holter’s Chicago Cycle rolls on with Rightlynd

by Catey Sullivan November 21, 2018August 18, 2021

In this installment, a young alderwoman learns that doing good is much harder than promising to do good.

Posted inBlogs

Empower promises to bring the real south side to the Lyric Opera stage

by Deanna Isaacs May 30, 2018August 18, 2021

Chicago high school students have teamed up with opera professionals to show that their neighborhoods are more than what’s shown in the media.

Posted inArts & Culture

Ike Holter’s latest, The Light Fantastic, is darkly playful

by Tony Adler May 23, 2018August 18, 2021

And Jackalope gives it a consummate storefront staging.

Posted inArts & Culture

Nothing is as it seems in Ike Holter’s The Wolf at the End of the Block

by Jack Helbig April 12, 2018August 18, 2021

A case of police brutality turns into a complex morality tale.

Posted inArts & Culture

Michael Allen Harris’s Kingdom reveals a young playwright on the brink of greatness

by Justin Hayford March 13, 2018August 18, 2021

Now in its world premiere, his new drama explores three volatile gay relationships in one working-class African-American family.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

In defense of Hedy Weiss

by Deanna Isaacs June 21, 2017August 18, 2021

Just because you disagree with her criticism doesn’t make her a bigot.

Posted inArts & Culture

Seeing tomorrow’s subscription season today at Louisville’s Humana Festival

by Tony Adler May 11, 2017August 18, 2021

The seedbed for new plays has a winner in Chelsea Marcantel’s Airness.

Posted inArts & Culture

Aladdin, Marry Me a Little, and ten more stage shows to see now

by Chicago Reader April 26, 2017August 18, 2021

A top-notch touring Broadway show and an intimate Sondheim concept revue are among this week’s notable new productions.

Posted inArts & Culture

Police violence haunts Chicago’s west side in Ike Holter’s The Wolf at the End of the Block

by Justin Hayford February 7, 2017August 18, 2021

Razor-sharp dramatics and an air-tight production from Teatro Vista bring a complicated, slippery world to life.

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