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Home » storefront theater

Tag: storefront theater

Posted inArts & Culture

Storefront Theater Musical is a bad-faith disaster

by KT Hawbaker May 22, 2019August 18, 2021

It commits the great satirical sin of punching down.

Posted inArts & Culture

It Is Magic takes a sympathetic look at the world of storefront theater

by Dmitry Samarov May 22, 2019August 18, 2021

How and why do you go on making art in the face of indifference?

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

Calamity West’s new play, In the Canyon, chronicles the slow erosion of abortion rights

by Justin Hayford October 30, 2018August 18, 2021

Once again, her work makes the Jackalope Theatre Company feel like the center of something extraordinary.

Posted inBlogs

On the cover: An investigation into abuse at Chicago’s acclaimed Profiles Theatre

by Reader staff June 8, 2016August 18, 2021

Profiles Theatre actors and crew members break their 20-year silence.

Posted inArts & Culture

Mickle Maher’s Song About Himself is (almost) his best play yet

by Justin Hayford April 1, 2015August 18, 2021

The Theater Oobleck cofounder mesmerizes with a dystopian world where the Web is all.

American Chamber Opera's Madame Butterfly
Posted inBest of Chicago

Best Opera Company Doing Puccini in a Church

by Deanna Isaacs June 19, 2013August 19, 2021

Their 2013 schedule included a winter production of Madame Butterfly set in Kenya.

Posted inBlogs

Reader’s Agenda Thu 1/31: Theater Oobleck, Soup and Bread, and Hot Water Music

by Drew Hunt January 31, 2013August 18, 2021

What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Thursday, January 31, 2013.

Posted inBlogs

The Reader’s Agenda: Sun 9/23

by Drew Hunt September 23, 2012August 19, 2021

What’s on the Agenda for Sunday, September 23, 2012

There is a Happiness That Morning Is
Posted inArts & Culture

Couplets on Coupling

by Justin Hayford April 21, 2011August 19, 2021

In There Is a Happiness That Morning Is, Mickle Maher looks at academics in ecstasy and despair.

Posted inBlogs

Dinner & a Show: Friday 1/21

by Sam Worley January 21, 2011August 19, 2021

Recommended events paired with nearby restaurants.

Cabaret
Posted inArts & Culture

New Cabaret, Old Hell

by Albert Williams April 22, 2010August 19, 2021

The Hypocrites do a dark and ominous musical.

Posted inBlogs

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by Tony Adler March 11, 2009August 19, 2021

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Cabaret Professionals launches downtown series

by Albert Williams July 30, 2008August 19, 2021

Chicago Cabaret Professionals kicks off Broadway on Randolph, continues Musical Mondays.

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