Windy City Playhouse’s production is a poignant showcase for Rebecca Spence.
Tag: Vol. 49 No. 1
Issue of Oct. 3 – 9, 2019
Posted inArts & Culture
October provides a grab bag of goodies in the performing arts
Here are ten sweet options onstage this month.
Posted inArts & Culture
A pair of one-acts examine parental doubt in Family Drama: 2 Norwegian Plays
Akvavit Theatre’s staging gets repetitive, but has some mordant wit.
Posted inArts & Culture
The Raveling is a theatrical spinning wheel
Walkabout Theater’s ensemble-created show suffers from too many unresolved threads.
Posted inArts & Culture
When sex work and art work collide
The kinksters, the queers, and the artists who live in both worlds.
Posted inNews & Politics
Finding peace and security after asylum
Therapists and social workers trained in trauma care are helping asylum seekers along their legal and healing journey.
Posted inArts & Culture
Space madness descends in X
A group of stranded space explorers confront their mortality and humanity in Sideshow’s U.S. premiere.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Busted priorities
Even with a teachers’ strike looming, the city is investing in the wrong things.
Posted inArts & Culture
Theatre L’Acadie makes a promising debut with 70 Scenes of Halloween
Jeffrey M. Jones’s 1990 play about the horrors of disintegrating relationships gets a rare revival with a brand-new company.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
The Just Say No edition
Dan Savage advises two women involved with hideous men, and more.
Posted inArts & Culture
Chicago Humanities Festival wants you to feel powerful
This season’s lineup focuses on harnessing the strength within.
Posted inMusic
Folk project DPCD celebrates a graceful, uncluttered new album
Folk project DPCD celebrates a graceful, uncluttered new album, the John Walt Foundation holds its annual Dinner With John fund-raiser, and more.
Posted inFilm
Movie Tuesday: Adventures in psychotherapy
Five films at the intersection of cinematic art and psychotherapeutic theory
Posted inArts & Culture
Elana Katz: Translator of trauma
The U.S.-born, Berlin-based performance artist continues a three-week residency at Defibrillator with ongoing screenings of her film Running on Empty.
Posted inMusic
Photos: The Hyde Park Jazz Festival
The south side’s own world-class jazz fest played host to dozens of shows and more than a hundred musicians.