Cabinet of Curiosity sets sail with a new live show about mermaids, whales, sharks, seagulls—and climate disaster
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Pivot Arts Festival switches it up online
The annual celebration of multidisciplinary performance adjusts for the times.
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Redmoon may be over, but Frank Maugeri is still going strong
The onetime artistic director of the defunct theater has a new nonprofit, the Cabinet of Curiosity Events.
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Steppenwolf’s Constellations and Voice Lessons, and 13 more new stage shows
An endless meet-cute and an off-key farce are among this week’s notables.
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The horrors of surrogacy get barely a whisper in Victory Gardens’ lightweight Samsara
The horrors of the Indian surrogacy trade get barely a whisper in Victory Gardens’ lightweight new comedy Samsara.
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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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Nearly 60 plays in 3,600 seconds (give or take)
Victory Gardens Biograph Theater hosts the third annual One Minute Play Festival.
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The Elephant and the Whale plot an escape from the circus
Cross-species friendship in The Elephant and the Whale, from Redmoon and Chicago Children’s Theatre
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Failure: A Love Story fails to get by on its charm
Seth Bockley directs Philip Dawkins’s Failure: A Love Story at Victory Gardens Theater
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Sailors, cross dressers, and Milton Friedman
Goodman Theatre’s New Stages Amplified amps up its play-development series with three new plays
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Cannibal Love, Twisted Sisters, Likable Punks
Steppenwolf hosts a trio of new plays from young local companies.