A man who murders children, abuses his wife, and usurps the throne, Shakespeare’s Richard III is the epitome of villainy—and usually shown as a limping hunchback othered because of his disability. Babes With Blades, in collaboration with University of Illinois Chicago’s Disability Cultural Center, challenges that portrayal in a current production at the Edge Theater. […]
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(Non)Fiction fails to convince us of its premise
Jillian Leff’s world premiere for Right Brain Project offers a fantasy version of the publishing world.
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An all-female crew fight for their lives in outer space in Women of 4G
Babes With Blades take a stab at Amy Tofte’s feminist sci-fi thriller.
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Small World imagines a disaster on Disney’s most annoying ride
New Colony’s production dances around juicy subjects without fully committing to any of them.