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Home » Young Jean Lee

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Posted inArts & Culture

We’re Gonna Die offers a poignant portrait of mortality

by Irene Hsiao September 15, 2020August 18, 2021

Theatre Y turns Young Jean Lee’s play into an elliptical but moving film project.

Posted inArts & Culture

The Shipment forces its (white) audience to contemplate its complicity in perpetuating American racism

by Max Maller September 13, 2018August 18, 2021

Prepare to squirm and be destroyed by Red Tape Theatre’s revival of Young Jean Lee’s play.

Posted inNews & Politics

Straight white Americans are the worst, according to Chicago theaters

by Tony Adler December 21, 2017August 18, 2021

A handful of notable plays staged in the city this year explored SWA suckiness.

Posted inArts & Culture

Steppenwolf’s Rembrandt is no masterpiece

by Tony Adler September 20, 2017August 18, 2021

The theater’s latest takes a detour into Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.

Posted inArts & Culture

Hir is Steppenwolf’s latest, funniest victim-impact statement

by Tony Adler July 12, 2017August 18, 2021

Oh dad, poor dad, Taylor Mac’s hung you up on meds . . .

Posted inArts & Culture

We’re Gonna Die, the Comedy Dance Collective, and 11 more new stage shows

by Chicago Reader May 10, 2017August 18, 2021

A rock concert/play by Young Jean Lee and an iO revue inspired by dance-class trauma are among this week’s best bets.

Posted inArts & Culture

In the hands of Will Davis, Picnic becomes a fluid—and gender-fluid—ballet

by Tony Adler March 23, 2017August 18, 2021

American Theater Company’s tribute to playwright William Inge is all about the motion.

Posted inArts & Culture

Young Jean Lee’s Straight White Men plays the game of Privilege—literally

by Tony Adler February 15, 2017August 18, 2021

Playwright-director Young Jean Lee brings her didactic, intentionally annoying play to Steppenwolf.

Untitled Feminist Show
Posted inArts & Culture

Untitled Feminist Show: Leave your head at home

by Laura Molzahn April 18, 2013August 19, 2021

In Young Jean Lee’s Untitled Feminist Show, six performers revel in “raw body-ness.”

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