BEFORE WE ARE HISTORY opens with a double bill of ONE and BLOOD SPILL. ONE is Jeff Hagedorn’s groundbreaking solo play about a young man attempting to understand and confront his AIDS diagnosis at a time when the disease itself was still frighteningly new. Set in New York in...
Open Space Arts looks back at more than four decades of theater responding to the AIDS epidemic with BEFORE WE ARE HISTORY, a special three-week program of landmark plays, readings, conversations, and post-show panels. The program includes Robert Chesley’s groundbreaking JERKER...
A double bill pairing Jeff Hagedorn's ONE, a groundbreaking solo play about a young man confronting his AIDS diagnosis, with Lee Raines' BLOOD SPILL, set in New York in 1992 and following HIV-positive playwright Kenny King as he confronts Angela Turner, an old college friend...
The play follows J.R. and Bert, two gay men who develop an increasingly intimate relationship entirely through telephone calls. What begins with anonymous sexual fantasy slowly becomes affection, friendship and emotional dependence as AIDS reshapes the world around them.
A special pay-what-you-can staged reading of A QUIET END , Robin Swados’ deeply human drama about three gay men living together during the early years of AIDS. The play examines friendship, chosen family, anger, illness, love and mortality as the men confront an epidemic rapidly...
Erik Patterson’s provocative and darkly funny FUCKING STRANGERS, directed by Jack Dugan Carpenter, brings four people together in an intimate exploration of sex, loneliness, desire, and the complicated ways we search for connection. Bold, contemporary, and deeply human, the play...
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Saturday night brought the long-awaited return of Dance Theatre of Harlem to The Auditorium for a celebratory evening of dance that showcased the range and versatility of this 57-year old company, which had not been seen in Chicago since 2016.…
With spooky season upon us, what better way to get into the haunted spirit than with a murder mystery — one that no one has ever seen before, and one that no one will ever see again.…
Backyard Theatre Company’s production of Red Bike is an enchanting, imaginative story from a kid’s perspective about growing up and seeing the town you’ve grown up in change, and the formative stuff and thoughts that shape who we are as a result. …
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. …
Premonitions Inc. is an oddball new cabaret and acrobatics show in the Spiegeltent of the Loop’s Cambria Hotel.…
Vladimir is a powerful and potent story of defiance, strength, and sacrifice.…
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…
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?…
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…
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Sam Goodstein prosecuted Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for treason in the trial of the century. Their conviction led Sam and his wife Judith to success, notoriety, and a world that had been previously closed to them. When troubling questions arise about the case, both Sam and...
Over the course of one year, a gay massage therapist and his female client grow to form an unusually strong bond. At first skeptical of each other, the two develop trust, and come to treasure their time together. When the client needs extraordinary support from the therapist...
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Adirondack Chair Circle Steppenwolf's Ensemble Theater (10/22-12/06) |
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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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When We Were Young and Unafraid Greenhouse Theater Center (11/12-11/29) |
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It's a Wonderful Life Overshadowed Theatrical Productions (11/27-12/19) |
