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.
Straight white Americans are the worst, according to Chicago theaters
A handful of notable plays staged in the city this year explored SWA suckiness.
Steppenwolf’s Rembrandt is no masterpiece
The theater’s latest takes a detour into Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.
Hir is Steppenwolf’s latest, funniest victim-impact statement
Oh dad, poor dad, Taylor Mac’s hung you up on meds . . .
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.
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.
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.
Untitled Feminist Show: Leave your head at home
In Young Jean Lee’s Untitled Feminist Show, six performers revel in “raw body-ness.”