With so many theaters opening their doors again for live performances (we have at least a half-dozen new reviews coming up next week, which is the most we’ve run since March 2020), it might be easy to overlook the ongoing digital drama produced by local companies. But there are still plenty of online shows to […]
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The Map of Now provides an interactive guide to collaboration with a retro look
“The potential and the sadness and beauty of big empty spaces” inspires Lucky Plush’s The Map of Now.
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Sydney Chatman and Congo Square want to move past trauma porn
A Joyce Foundation grant paves the way for a community playmaking project at Congo Square focused on Black women and girls.
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Reopenings, discussions, and ¡WEPA!
Upcoming events and recommendations from our listings coordinator
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The Dining Room provides dramatic Possibilities
Possibilities produces a live Zoom version of The Dining Room, but Melody DeRogatis has post-pandemic plans for her company.
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Omer Abbas Salem is building his own canon
With Mosque4Mosque and other plays, MENA playwright and actor Omer Abbas Salem creates space for Muslim and Arab artists.
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Retail, resistance, and rebirth in Wally World and Kickback
Christmas Eve goes to 11 in Isaac Gómez’s workplace comedy; About Face celebrates Black queer lives, past and present.
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Tawny Newsome and Bethany Thomas make thoughtful, soulful rock on Material Flats
Tawny Newsome and Bethany Thomas became friends in the 2000s, when they put in time as backup singers for a long list of forgotten bar bands, and in 2017 they both appeared on Jon Langford’s album Four Lost Souls. But it’d be a mistake to pigeonhole them as supporting players—their soulful voices have always commanded […]
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Bending the arc of theatrical liberation
Thinking about The Boys in the Band, Broadway, and Chicago
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The Reader’s stay-at-home chronicles: days 57 and 58
What we’re reading, watching, listening to, etc., to pass the time.
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Steppenwolf’s LookOut series opens its doors to younger companies
First Floor’s Plano and Definition’s White connect emerging companies and established artists.
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What turns kids punk?
The new musical Verböten uses the story of Jason Narducy’s forgotten early-80s band to talk about the power of subculture.
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Girls in a dance troupe glimpse the pain of the adult world in Dance Nation
Clare Barron’s drama delivers flagrantly graceless dancing, but heartstopping truths.
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Rapbrarian Roy Kinsey finds his voice in queer hip-hop
With his next album, Roy Kinsey wants to make the music he wishes he’d heard as a young queer man of color.
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Rink Life takes us on a circular journey through collaboration
Lucky Plush’s new ensemble piece uses the roller rink as a metaphor for community.