Victor Musoni Archives - Chicago Reader

A young Black woman in a white knit top and blue jeans sits cross-legged on stage. To the right of her in the photo we see a young Black man in a blue hoodie and sweat pants seated and looking toward her. The stage is rough wooden planks, like a boardwalk. Behind them we see a kind of pink plastic sheeting material.

Infatuation and identity

by Sheri Flanders February 8, 2023February 8, 2023

When The Revival theater opened its doors in 2015 at the corner of 55th Street and University Avenue, its intent was to pay homage to improv’s earliest roots. Paul Sills formed the Compass Players in that exact spot, bringing his knowledge of his mother Viola Spolin’s theater games (outlined in her seminal work Improvisation for […]

A colonial bedroom set. Five Black people in working clothes sit on and around a four-poster bed. On a chair to the right sits an older white woman in a dressing gown.

Theater Review

First Lady fantasia

by Kerry Reid September 14, 2022September 14, 2022

Right before the pandemic shutdown in 2020, TimeLine Theatre presented James Ijames’s sorrowful and powerful Kill Move Paradise, in which a group of Black men murdered by the police gather in a purgatorial afterlife, where a fax machine spits out an ever-growing list of more Black people killed by the state. At the same time […]

Arts & Culture

Nora Dunn on our first and worst presidents

by Catey Sullivan March 24, 2020August 18, 2021

Her show at Steppenwolf is off for now, but the ‘difficult’ SNL vet still has plenty to say.