Theatre Y turns Young Jean Lee’s play into an elliptical but moving film project.
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The Shipment forces its (white) audience to contemplate its complicity in perpetuating American racism
Prepare to squirm and be destroyed by Red Tape Theatre’s revival of Young Jean Lee’s play.
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Straight white Americans are the worst, according to Chicago theaters
A handful of notable plays staged in the city this year explored SWA suckiness.
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Steppenwolf’s Rembrandt is no masterpiece
The theater’s latest takes a detour into Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.
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Hir is Steppenwolf’s latest, funniest victim-impact statement
Oh dad, poor dad, Taylor Mac’s hung you up on meds . . .
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We’re Gonna Die, the Comedy Dance Collective, and 11 more new stage shows
A rock concert/play by Young Jean Lee and an iO revue inspired by dance-class trauma are among this week’s best bets.
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In the hands of Will Davis, Picnic becomes a fluid—and gender-fluid—ballet
American Theater Company’s tribute to playwright William Inge is all about the motion.
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Young Jean Lee’s Straight White Men plays the game of Privilege—literally
Playwright-director Young Jean Lee brings her didactic, intentionally annoying play to Steppenwolf.
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Untitled Feminist Show: Leave your head at home
In Young Jean Lee’s Untitled Feminist Show, six performers revel in “raw body-ness.”