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Stage Top 5: January 2022

by Brian Hieggelke | December 23, 2021

by Brian Hieggelke
December 23, 2021January 17, 2022Filed under:
  • Top 5 Lists

Tyla Abercrumbie

1
Blues in the Night
(Porchlight Music Theatre)
Tony Award-nominee Felicia P. Fields headlines this Tony-nominated musical about a fateful 1930s night in a Chicago hotel on the South Side.
Opens January 15

2
Relentless
(Timeline Theatre)
Ron OJ Parson directs a world premiere by Chicago’s Tyla Abercrumbie about two sisters in Philadelphia in 1918.
Opens January 19

3
Proving Up
(Lyric Opera)
The opera visits the Goodman Theatre to present a “haunting, supernatural story of Nebraska homesteaders in the 1870s.”
Opens January 22

4
Gem of the Ocean
(Goodman Theatre)
Chuck Smith helms this August Wilson revival on the stage where it premiered.
Opens January 22

5
Queen of the Night
(Victory Gardens)
New Victory Gardens artistic director Ken-Matt Martin directs an exploration of “masculinity and queerness through the lens of multigenerational Blackness.”
Opens January 29

Tagged:
  • August Wilson
  • Felicia P. Fields
  • Goodman Theatre
  • Ken-Matt Martin
  • Lyric Opera
  • Porchlight Music Theatre
  • TimeLine Theatre
  • Tyla Abercrumbie
  • Victory Gardens

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