The past two years have seen more upheavals and changes in leadership at Chicago theaters than at any time in my memory, exacerbated by the long COVID-19 shutdown. So perhaps it makes sense that Goodman Theatre went back to the future, so to speak, by announcing Susan V. Booth as their new artistic director late […]
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Chicago theater was true to our times in 2015
Theater Wit’s Bad Jews and the Goodman’s Stop. Reset. are among our senior theater critic’s favorites of the year.
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Black to the future with Regina Taylor’s Stop. Reset.
The actress/playwright/director’s Goodman Theatre show is nervy is hell.
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Playwright Regina Taylor adapts theater to the age of social media in Stop. Reset.
The future is now in a new show at the Goodman.
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Crowns’s jewels?
Regina Taylor directs a revival of her musical, Crowns, at Goodman Theatre
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This week’s Culture Vultures recommend:
Chicagoans recommend Theaster Gates, Acre restaurant, and Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
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New plays for the new place
Details of the Black Ensemble Theater’s Black Playwrights Festival
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Annual Story Week Festival of Writers Kicks Off
Columbia College’s annual literary festival features appearances by fiction writers, faculty, students, and alumni. The theme this 15th time around is “Class Acts.” Events run Sunday, March 13, through Friday, March 18, and every single one of them is free. Unless otherwise noted, those listed here take place in the auditorium at the Harold Washington […]