Chicago Musicals & Plays
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SKATES
Studebaker Theater (5/24 - 8/28) | |
subText by Tyler Dwiggins
Chicago Street Theatre (5/21 - 5/23) | ||
Law & Order: Fairy Tale Unit by Jonathan Rand
St. Charles North High School (5/19 - 5/20) | ||
Peter Pan
Ft Wayne Civic Theatre (11/3 - 11/20) | ||
Annie Kids
Stratton Academy Of The Arts (8/30 - 8/30) | ||
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Reviews

BWW Review: THE CHINESE LADY at TimeLine Theatre Company
Directed by Helen Young, TimeLine Theatre Company’s Chicago premiere of Lloyd Suh’s THE CHINESE LADY is a poignant and well-crafted play centered on Afong Moy, who was supposedly the first Chinese woman to come to America. Although historical record does not have much definitive information about Afong Moy (we even know that was not her real name), Suh uses the play’s well-structured 90 minutes to imagine what she might have said to audiences had she been given the chance. For at least 15 years from 1834 to 1850, Afong Moy was treated like an exhibit in a museum; Nathaniel and Francis Carnes brought her to the United States to showcase her in front of American audiences. Thus, Afong Moy was taken away from her family and stripped of agency. While Suh’s script cleverly allows Afong Moy to take back some of that agency, the play also demonstrates that in reality this young woman didn’t have much of a voice or control over her situation at all.
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