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Home » Theater on the Lake

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Posted inArts & Culture

Through the play Tangles & Plaques and a series of workshops, the Neo-Futurists demystify memory loss

by Taylor Moore August 6, 2019August 18, 2021

Playwright Kirsten Riiber wants to prepare young people to take care of an older generation.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

At Theater on the Lake, a free Prologue to a free season

by Deanna Isaacs June 26, 2019August 18, 2021

Theater on the Lake kicks off its season with a free three-day seminar for the Chicago theater community.

Posted inNews & Politics

Know thy mayor: A few of Rahm’s favorite things

by Maya Dukmasova March 14, 2018August 18, 2021

Mayor Emanuel’s picks for reading, dining, and recreation, from fly fishing to Faust to Four Moon Tavern

Posted inNews & Politics

Rahm’s Chicago Stories podcast takes you inside the mind of the mayor

by Maya Dukmasova March 14, 2018August 18, 2021

We listened to all 18 hours of it so you don’t have to.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Ten surprising stories from the year in Chicago culture

by Deanna Isaacs December 21, 2016August 18, 2021

From Theater on the Lake to spaceship on the park, 2016 was a weird time in the city.

Posted inArts & Culture

Ad Hoc [Home], As You Like It, and nine more new stage shows and revivals

by Chicago Reader July 28, 2016August 18, 2021

About Face Theatre Youth Ensemble and Arc Theatre make more with less.

Posted inBlogs

There’s good news and bad news about Theater on the Lake’s upcoming season

by Deanna Isaacs January 21, 2015August 18, 2021

Theater on the Lake will have another vagabond season; playwright Ike Holter will curate

The website of the Friends of Lucas Museum shows the Chicago skyline from the north, with the Park District’s currently shuttered Theater on the Lake in the foreground.
Posted inColumns & Opinion

Poster child for the newly formed Friends of Lucas Museum: Theater on the Lake?

by Deanna Isaacs September 22, 2014August 18, 2021

Poor old Theater on the Lake is a strange poster child for the newly formed Friends of Lucas Museum.

Richard Cotovsky
Posted inColumns & Opinion

Richard Cotovsky’s life on the fringe, rewarded

by Deanna Isaacs May 23, 2013August 19, 2021

After four decades in Chicago theater, Mary-Arrchie’s Richard Cotovsky gets a special nod from the Jeff Awards.

Posted inBlogs

The Reader’s Agenda: Sun 8/12

by Drew Hunt August 12, 2012August 19, 2021

What’s on the Agenda for Sunday, August 12, 2012

Theater on the Lake curators Meghan Beals McCarthy and Michael Patrick Thornton and managing director Samantha Chavis
Posted inColumns & Opinion

Still a beach bum, after all these years

by Deanna Isaacs June 5, 2012August 19, 2021

A planned major rehab never happened, but at 60, Theater on the Lake has some new blood

Posted inNews & Politics

2006

by Michael Miner September 15, 2011August 19, 2021

The year in Chicago history via the pages of the Reader

Posted inArts & Culture

Action Movie: The Play–The Director’s Cut

by Nick Green June 24, 1999August 19, 2021

Last summer Defiant Theatre company members Joe Foust and Richard Ragsdale caught lightning in a bottle with their wacky, whip-smart parody of the action genre’s most egregious cliches, performed to enthusiastic audiences at the American Theater Company and Theater on the Lake. Yet Foust and Ragsdale went back and revised their script in an effort […]

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