Mud Life
Mud Life is written by Willie Round and G. Riley Mills, the writing team behind The Lost Story of Emmett Till: Trial in the Delta. The play is inspired by Round's own experience growing up in North Lawndale.
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Review: Tin Drum Theatre's A DARK WOOD at Greenhouse Theater Center
Whether you leave the theater with intensified despair or renewed hope is up to you — and that’s what makes this terrifying and achingly sad story, with just the right dose of humor, hope, and humanity, a brilliant piece of art. …
Review: PREMONITIONS INC. at Kermess
Premonitions Inc. is an oddball new cabaret and acrobatics show in the Spiegeltent of the Loop’s Cambria Hotel.…
Review: Shattered Globe Theatre's VLADIMIR at Theater Wit
Vladimir is a powerful and potent story of defiance, strength, and sacrifice.…
Review: A STRANGE LOOP at Raven Theatre
Michael R. Jackson’s wildly inventive and unique 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winning musical A Strange Loop now makes its Chicago premiere. A Strange Loop is a “big Black and queer-ass American Broadway show,” in the main character Usher’s words, about the lead trying to write a musical called A Str…
Review: JIMMY BUFFETT'S ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE at Music Theater Works North Shore Center For The Performing Arts
What did our critic think of JIMMY BUFFETT'S ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE at Music Theater Works At The North Shore Center For The Performing Arts?…
Review: DEAD GIRL’S QUINCEAÑERA at Goodman Theatre
Dead Girl’s Quinceañera brings a missing person case to the stage — and the detectives are a group of three Latina teen girls in Miami, Florida. Phanésia Pharel’s play capitalizes on the pop culture obsession with true crime and murder mysteries — though Dead Girl’s Quinceañera is ultim…
Review: THE ADDAMS FAMILY MUSICAL at BrightSide Theatre
Opening its 15th season, BrightSide Theatre in Naperville is presenting The Addams Family Musical which runs through October 18,. The musical, written by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, with music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa, is the first time the familiar characters created by Charles Addams appea…
Review: OPERATION MINCEMEAT National Tour Presented by Broadway In Chicago
Operation Mincemeat is an absolute smash. I adore this inventive and fun musical. It’s extremely original, and it’s the kind of show that gives me hope for the future of new one-of-a-kind musicals like it. Written by David Cummings, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson, and Zoë Roberts, Operation Mince…
Review: CHOPIN IN WINTER at Chopin Theatre
Chopin in Winter is an imaginative work of art for those with an acquired taste of deep storytelling combined with some of the most beautiful piano compositions from the Romantic era. …
Review: TOPDOG/UNDERDOG at Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Steppenwolf opens its 51st season with a blistering and captivating production of Suzan Lori-Parks’s Topdog/Underdog. This play has long been on my theater bucket list, and it’s absolutely what I think of when I think of a “Steppenwolf play”: A gritty family drama about brothers undergoing h…
Past Shows
The People's Pot & Pantry
To build ties and battle food insecurity in the performing arts, Chicago arts workers are invited to Collaboraction to dine on their dark day. Performing artists enjoy a free meal featuring locally grown produce, and can bring containers to browse the pantry and take home...
Dark Play or Stories for Boys
"dark play or stories for boys" follows a teenage boy's foray into the virtual world. His fictional internet identity begins as a harmless game, but the game takes on a frightening reality when real emotion overtakes his online relationship. When Nick's virtual world collides...
Be A Good Little Widow
Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre: - Bekah Brunstetter; dir: Hal Brooks.
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Love Story: A Tribute to Taylor Swift Raue Center For The Arts (11/07-11/07) |
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Million Dollar Quartet Stolp Island Theatre (10/07-1/03) |
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Rotary Rocks The Raue: James Garner's Tribute to Johnny Cash Raue Center For The Arts (10/24-10/24) |
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The Christmas Carol Paramount Theatre (11/11-1/03) |
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Topdog/Underdog Steppenwolf's Downstairs Theater (9/17-11/01) |
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Blond Ambition: A Tribute to Madonna Raue Center For The Arts (11/07-11/07) |
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Memphis The Musical Studebaker Theater at the Fine Arts Building (10/24-10/25) |
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The Years Between Us The Lodge Performing Arts Center (10/15-10/18) |
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When We Were Young and Unafraid Greenhouse Theater Center (11/12-11/29) |
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Boy Band Review: Boy Band Christmas The Hemmens Cultural Center (12/19-12/19) |
