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theater
Entertainment
Moving Pictures: You Can’t Spell ‘Barbarian’ Without Airbnb
Quick-and-to-the-point thriller demands a group viewing.
Entertainment
In ‘Triangle of Sadness,’ Power Is A Real Bad Trip
You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. Maybe you’ll projectile vomit. But you’ll definitely have a good time.
Entertainment
Renegotiating with the Big Screen: Cinema in the Post-COVID Era
When people go to the cinema, they crave an immersive experience that cannot be replicated at home. Included in this package is the theater’s...
SAIC
Alum Report: Javier Carmona
Alumnus Javier Carmona (BFA 1994) talks photography, acting, SAIC, and how to measure time.
Arts & Culture
The Art of Healing at Youth Empowerment Performance Project
How a Chicago nonprofit works with LGBTQ youth to build community through art.
Arts & Culture
Limmie Pulliam: Missouri’s New ‘Otello’
Giuseppe Verdi's opera has a long history of problematic casting choices, but Springfield Regional Opera gets "Otello" right.
Arts & Culture
Who’s Afraid of Letting Theater Evolve?
The Edward Albee estate pulled the rights of a Portland production of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" because a director cast an African-American actor.
Arts & Culture
‘Understand Us the Way We Need to Be Understood’
About Face Theatre takes an importantly different approach when it comes to trans inclusion and representation in theater.
Arts & Culture
White Critic in the White City
Reflecting on the problematic homogeneity of contemporary theatre criticism in Chicago.
Arts & Culture
‘Hamilton’: Your Revisionist, Problematic Fave
Lin-Manuel Miranda's run away hit musical is now showing in Chicago and seems untouchable, but has undeniable flaws.
Arts & Culture
Every October Needs a ‘Dog Night’
"Dog Night" was an experience of immersive, spooky theater that had everything — including dog masks.
Entertainment
Reading a Text for the Stage on the Page: ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’
Beloved boy wizard Harry Potter is making his return to the zeitgeist for the first time in nearly a decade but this time, he's returning onstage rather than on the page. Does it make a difference?
Arts & Culture
Nothing Ado About Honest Theatre
Chicago's Honest Theatre company is committed to socially-minded plays, especially by making their admission pay-what-you-can.
Arts & Culture
Victimization, Identity and LGBTQ Rights in “Teddy Ferrara”
A great deal of what moved the play forward rather than the political, and social issues was a more conventional portrait of personal desire and heartbreak, which was merely set against a backdrop of LGBTQ rights issues.
