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- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Feb 25, 2020
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Alex Grelle is the new David Bowie
The transformative performer channels the legendary artist for the completely original, electric Floor Show.
- Music, Music Feature Jan 14, 2020
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What turns kids punk?
The new musical Verböten uses the story of Jason Narducy’s forgotten early-80s band to talk about the power of subculture.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 26, 2019
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Exit, Pursued by a Bear lacks teeth
Lauren Gunderson's 2012 play trades in tropes, but Joy Productions' cast is strong.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jun 26, 2019
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Urban Theater Company re-creates the house music scene from Back in the Day
But the dance sequences undermine the attempts to address serious issues.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Dec 19, 2018
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House Theatre's no-dancing Nutcracker finds light in wartime darkness
The show moves from holiday hijinks to deep sadness with plenty of sweetness throughout.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Oct 18, 2018
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The puppets are the best reason to venture within The Walls of Harrow House
Rough House's latest production is a worthy addition to the Chopin's tradition of interactive performances.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jul 25, 2018
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In Manual Cinema’s The End of TV, two women help each other rediscover their humanity
The multimedia ensemble’s latest production is a beautiful and transfixing examination of the effects of the industrial age.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 24, 2017
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Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me! in Millennium Park, and more things to do in Chicago this week
I Saw You at Town Hall Pub, Forms and Features: Poetry Comics at the Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, and other happenings July 24-27
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 17, 2017
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That's Weird Grandma: Attack of the Phantom of the BBQ and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week
The film program "Remnants of a Dream" at Gallery 400, Art on Clark, and more happenings from July 17-20
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 19, 2016
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Avoid the Air and Water Show with Wizard World Comic Con, David Cross, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend
Catzilla 4: A Cat Fest, SlutWalk Chicago, and more happenings from August 19-21
- Best of Chicago, Reasons to love Chicago Jun 23, 2016
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Chicago’s most uncomfortable theaters can offer exceptional theatrical experiences
Close quarters, minuscule budgets, and structural limitations can work wonders when it comes to creating intimacy and forcing invention.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 15, 2016
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Sketchbook Festival's final year, Run the Jewels at the MCA, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend
RhinoFest, The Year of the Rooster, and other weekend happenings in Chicago from January 15-17.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 11, 2016
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Tomorrow Never Knows kicks off, the Slurring Bee hits Chicago, and more things to do this week
The final year of Sketchbook Festival, Token 2, and other happenings in Chicago from January 11-14
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 20, 2015
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InFusion Theatre delivers a female-driven punk rock masterpiece
Riot grrrls come to terms with the past in Another Kind of Love, with music from Crystal Skillman and Heidi Rodewald.
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Apr 14, 2015
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Michael Halberstam moonlights with the fledgling company Definition Theatre
As A Doll's House plays in the city, Writers Theatre's new Jeanne Gang-designed facility goes up in the burbs.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 11, 2015
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The Hammer Trinity is a nine-hour fantasy epic that feels surprisingly short
A marathon staging from the House Theatre of Chicago is thrilling and thought-provoking—even if you don't like the genre.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Feb 4, 2015
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From Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 to Michael Brown and Eric Garner
In telling the story of Rodney King, playwright Anna Deavere Smith can't help but tell about Ferguson—or choke holds, or riots.
- Best of Chicago, Arts & Culture Jun 25, 2014
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Best Theater Lobby That Makes You Wish Intermission Would Never End
Den Theatre
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Apr 23, 2014
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Down the rabbit hole with the House Theatre's Dorian
A visually strong adaptation of Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray doesn't go far enough.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 22, 2012
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The Reader's Agenda: Thu 11/22
What's on the Agenda for Thursday, November 22, 2012
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 14, 2012
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"Goofball perfection" to emotion-killing monologues: this week's performing arts reviews
Fresh performing arts reviews by Reader critics
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Sep 15, 2011
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A hit and a miss
Sarah Gubbins's The Kid Thing and Sean Graney's Sophocles: Seven Sicknesses
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Jul 21, 2011
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Chicago Folks Operetta cultivates The Rose of Stambul
With a new translation and a run at Chopin Theatre, Chicago Folks Operetta cultivates Leo Fall's 1916 blossom, The Rose of Stambul
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Apr 28, 2011
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Woyzeck, Two Ways
The Hypocrites and About Face Theatre play with Georg Büchner’s antihero.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Mar 31, 2011
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Insufficient Weirdness
The House Theatre of Chicago finds only half the wonder in Joe Meno’s new play.