Theater Top 5: May 2020
Ever the ingenious industry, Chicago theater and performance companies continue to find new and creative ways of bringing their art directly to audiences.
The Biggest Question: The Seldoms Take On the Existential Crisis of Our Time
The Seldoms’ founding artistic director wants to get you talking more about climate change.
Keeping What You Need: Red Clay Dance Shifts the Celebration Online and Finds New Inspiration
“It’s good to reflect and look at everything and see if we’re at the root and purpose. Now we have a lot of time for planning and to interrogate some things.”
Theater Top 5: April 2020
Dreams, deception, dirt, and more this month at theater.
Don’t be a Dick, Richard: A Review of Teenage Dick at Theater Wit
In the wake of COVID-19, Theater Wit brings the local premiere of Mike Lew’s play directly to their audience.
Lifting the Veil on Valhalla: An Inside Look at Lyric’s “Ring” Cycle
“The piece is so rich that the most important thing for me to say is ‘Once Upon a Time.'”
Doomed to Live: A Review of The Two Character Play at Theatre L’Acadie
The great test facing the fearful protagonists of this rarely produced Tennessee Williams play—simply going outside—is disturbingly pertinent at this moment.
Renewal Over Replication: A Passing of the Baton at Lyric Opera
“Contemporary opera is our way to make the audience aware of contemporary problems and to open our minds to see possible solutions to those problems.”
The Material, The Technological, The Spiritual, The Ancestral: Disciplines Unite in the Vision of Qudus Onikeku
Editor’s Note: Due to travel complications this performance will be postponed to the Dance Center of Columbia College Fall 2020-21 season.
The Gospel of Getting On: A Review of Mrs. Warren’s Profession at Promethean Theatre Ensemble
The production of this ever-timely play by George Bernard Shaw is ironically marred by a lack of professionalism.
