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Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 12, 2019
Recommended
P.Y.G. or the Mis-Edumacation of Dorian Belle cuts with double-edged satire

A white Canadian pop star and two Black hip-hop artists share a reality-TV crib.
- By Kerry Reid
- Tags: Theater Review, P.Y.G. or the Mis-Edumacation of Dorian Belle, Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm, Lili-Anne Brown, Jackalope Theatre, Tevion Devin Lanier, Eric Gerard, Garrett Young, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Theater Preview Oct 30, 2019
Give thanks for some promising November live performances

The table is set this month with theater world premieres, dance works in progress, and comedy with cured meat.
- By Kerry Reid, Irene Hsiao, and Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Theater Preview, Rivendell Theatre, Jackalope Theatre, TimeLine Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, Firebrand Theatre, The Seldoms, Poetry Foundation, Redance Group, North Bar, Pork Show, Becca Brown

Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 29, 2019
Recommended
In Life on Paper, Jackalope once again turns straw into gold.

Gus Menary's ensemble transforms Kenneth Lin's mechanical script into a warm, nuanced production.
- By Justin Hayford
- Tags: Theater Review, Life on Paper, Jackalope Theatre, Kenneth Lin, Joel Ewing, Mary Williamson, Gus Menary, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 23, 2018
Recommended
Ike Holter’s latest, The Light Fantastic, is darkly playful

And Jackalope gives it a consummate storefront staging.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, The Light Fantastic, Jackalope Theatre, Ike Holter, Gus Menary, Exit Strategy, Wolf at the End of the Block, Hit the Wall, Loom, Prowess, Sender, horror, Mothman, Paloma Nozicka, Diego Colón, Brianna Buckley, Janice O’Neill, Tommy Malouf, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Nov 2, 2017
The Comedy of Errors, Marie Christine, and eight more new stage shows to see

A cartoon-inspired staging of the Bard and a creole update of Medea are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, The Basement Company, Adam Harrell, Madison Smith, Death & Pretzels, The Comedy of Errors, Shakespare, Filament Theatre, Shakespeare All-Stars, JT Nagle, Polley Cooney, Arin Mulvaney, In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play, TimeLine Theatre, Sarah Ruhl, Mechelle Moe, In Sarah's Shadow: The Eleonora Duse Story, Olivia Lilley, Prop Thtr, Sarah Bernhardt, George Bernard Shaw, Marie Christine, Euripides, Medea, Michael John LaChiusa, BoHo Theatre, Lilli-Ann Brown, Curtis Bannister, Nicole Michelle, Kyrie Courter, Ken Singleton, Pavi Proczko, Patricia Cotter, 1980 (or Why I'm Voting for John Anderson), Jackalope Theatre, Patricia Cotter, Kaiser Ahmed, Hillary Horvath, The Tiger Who Wore White Gloves, Gwendolyn Brooks, Nora Brooks Blakely, Valerie King, Izaiah Harris, Marc Rogers, Aaron Mitchell Reese, Kemati J. Porter, Destiny Casson, Upstairs: The Musical, UpStairs Lounge, New Orleans, Wayne Self, Pride Films and Plays, Eric Coleman, Gary Trick, Yerma, Federico García Lorca, Max Truax, Theatre Y

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review May 24, 2017
Ideation, Token, and nine more stage shows to see now

A dark comedy from Jackalope and a go-for-the-jugular solo performance are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Ideation, Aaron Loeb, Gus Menary, Jackalope Theatre, Italian Bred, Candice Guardino, Steven Schirripa, The Sopranos, Johnny 10 Beer's Daughter, Arti Ishak, Randy Steinmeyer, Dana Lynn Formby, Emmi Hilger, Something Marvelous, The My Way Residential, Irish Theatre of Chicago, Belinda Bremner, Geraldine Aron, Kevin Theis, Subtext Theater Company, A Prayer for the Sandinistas, Pope John Paul II, Leigh Johnson, Jonathan Hagloch, Kate Robison, Northlight Theatre, Relativity, Albert Einstein, Mark St. Germain, Katherine Keberlein, Mike Nussbaum, BJ Jones, Halcyon Theatre, The River Bride, Marisela Treviño Orta, Rinska Carrasco-Prestinary, Sofia Tew, Flavia Pallozzi, Nate Santana, The Rogue Aviator, Otherworld Theatre Company, Tiffany Keane-Schaefer, Nick Izzo, St. Jude, Luis Alfaro, Victory Gardens, Kaye Winks, Token, Judy's Beat Lounge, Schoen Smith, BoHo Theatre, Three Days of Rain, Richard Greenberg, Derek Van Barham, Kyle Curry, Kate Black-Spence, Niko Kourtis

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Feb 3, 2017
Recommended
The Snare brings faith to Chicago theater without irony

In this Jackalope Theatre production, a midwestern family is plunged into drama after the daughter reveals that “the devil tells me to do things.”
- By Justin Hayford
- Tags: Theater Review, Jackalope Theatre, Samantha Beach, faith, Cyd Blakewell, Caroline Heffernan, Elana Boulos, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Nov 30, 2016
Winterset, Finding Neverland, and three more alternatives to holiday fare

A resonant period piece and a musical that does it better than the movie are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, The Hypocrites, Cinderella at the Theater of Potatoes, Andra Velis Simon, Pauline Viardot-García, Cendrillon, Sean Graney, Amanda Martinez, Cinderella, Finding Neverland, J.M. Barrie, Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, Peter Pan, Gary Barlow, Eliot Kennedy, Broadway musicals, Broadway in Chicago, Kevin Kern, Christine Dwyer, Equity touring shows, Diane Paulus, Mia Michaels, Calamity West, Sideshow Theatre Company, Rolling, Jackalope Theatre, Sabrina Rubin Erdely, Give It All Back, Bob Dylan, Marti Lyons, Mary Williamson, R. Crumb, Allen Ginsberg, Mr. Natural, ShawChicago, Jeeves Intervenes, Margaret Raether', P.G. Wodehouse, Bertie Wooster, Eustace Bassington-Bassington, Robert Scogin, Winterset, Sacco and Vanzetti, Griffin Theatre Company, Jonathan Berry, Maxwell Anderson, Maurice Demus, Larry Baldacci

Music, Music Feature Nov 9, 2016
Video
Mykele Deville unpacks blackness for the basement-show set

This restless rapper, poet, and actor has helped bridge cultural and racial divides in Chicago’s DIY scene on his way to bigger stages.
- By Lee V. Gaines
- Tags: Music Feature, Mykele Deville, Super Predator, Each One, Teach One, rapper, actor, poet, The Dojo, Young Camelot, Ebony Callicut, Chris Lee, Colin Mulhern, Vaniya Payton, Michele Clark, Gallery 37, Mechelle Moe, University of Illinois at Chicago, Boldy James, Presley Joy Paget, Space Opera, RutCorp, Hostel Earphoria, Chimney, Kristiana Rae Colón, Octagon, Jackalope Theatre, Austin, west side, Hillary Clinton, superpredator, Jovan Landry, Trigney Morgan, Daniel Kyri, Kid Made Modern, Terror Town, South Shore, Monolith, Revolt, Video

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Nov 3, 2016
Resolution, The Trump Card, and nine more new theater reviews

A drama from Pride Films and Plays and Mike Daisey's election monologue are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Chagrin Falls, Mia McCullough, Sommer Austin, Agency Theatre Collective, Jennifer Cheung, Killadelphia, Sean Christopher Lewis, Philadelphia, Graterford Prison, Dogs of Rwanda, The Mars Assignment, Collaboraction, National Alliance on Mental Illness Chicago, Ronan Marra, Elsa Hiltner, clinical depression, Matt and Ben, Theatre Above the Law, Mindy Kaling, Brenda Withers, Octagon, Kristiana Rae Colón, Jackalope Theatre, Tara Branham, the Conspirators, The Resistible Rise of Herr Helmut Drumpf, Bertolt Brecht, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Wm. Bullion, New Criminals, Ryan Hake, Lindsey Graham, Resolution, Pride Films and Plays, Tiffany Mitchenor, Aneisa Hicks, Amber Snyder, Diana Raiselis, MPAACT, Starting Over, Kejuan Darby, Siera Buffum, Jerico Bleu, Keith Surney, Shepsu Aakhu, Tympanic Theatre, Sweet Analytics, Hayes Borkowski, Joshua Ellison, Tony n' Tina's Wedding, Chicago Theater Works, Resurrection Lutheran Church, Vinnie Black's Coliseum, The Trump Card, Election Day, 2016 election, Donald Trump, Mike Daisey, This American Life, "Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory", Denise Hoeflich, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Good Will Hunting, Miley Cyrus, Malala Yousafzai, American Association of University Women

Arts & Culture, Fall Preview Sep 4, 2016
Ten best bets for fall theater

A satanic hand puppet, a live version of Cheers, and a Twelfth Night in Hindi are among this season’s highlights.
- Tags: Fall Preview, Mary Zimmerman, Doug Peck, Goodman Theatre, Candide, Leonard Bernstein, Wonderful Town, My Sister Eileen, Bri Sudia, Lauren Molina, Sophocles, Electra, the House of Atreus, Agamemnon, Iphigenia in Aulis, Nicholas Rudall, Court Theatre, Sandra Marquez, Michael Pogue, Kate Fry, Amiri Baraka, LeRoi Jones, Dutchman, American Blues Theater, Darren Canady, TRANSit, Shattered Globe Theatre, True West, Sam Shepard, Black Button Eyes Productions, Amour, Michel Legrand, Shakespeare 400 Chicago, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Shanghai Jingju Theatre, Peking opera, The Revenge of Prince Zi Dan, Hamlet, Company Theatre Mumbai, Piya Behrupiya, Twelfth Night, Eduardo Pavez Goye, Foro Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, The Complete Deaths, Spymonkey, The Happiest Place on Earth, Sideshow Theatre Company, Philip Dawkins, Scooby Don't, Hell in a Handbag Productions, David Cerda, Andrew Hinderaker, The Magic Play, Calamity West, Give It All Back, Idris Goodwin, How We Got On, Haven Theatre Company, Kristiana Rae Colón, Octagon, Jackalope Theatre, I Am My Own Wife, Doug Wright, About Face Theatre, Delia Kropp, Nothing Without a Company, [Trans]formation, the Living Canvas, Cheers Live on Stage, Amy Poehler, Broadway in Chicago, Mat Smart, Naperville, The Royal Society of Antarctica, the Gift Theatre, Jeff Award, Aguijón Theater, Romeo y Julieta, Sándor Menéndez, Gerardo Cárdenas, Hand to God, Robert Askin, Victory Gardens Theater, Alex Weisman, Gary Griffin, Seret Scott

Blogs, Bleader Aug 26, 2016
The Living Newspaper Festival, Villapalooza, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

Sangria Festival, Puppet Meltdown, and more happenings from August 26-28.
- By Sara Cohen
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Music, Food & Drink, Taste of Greektown, Maria Gaspar, Experimental Sound Studio, Cook County Jail, Aquanaut Brewing Company, Records and Beer, These Old Men They Play Records, Ryan Powers, Villapalooza, Little Village, Los Crudos, Generacion Suicida, Thee Commons, West Town Hoedown & Cookout, Sangria Festival, National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture, Jackalope Theatre, Living Newspaper Festival, Rachal Duggan, Comfort Station, Puppet Meltdown

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature May 26, 2016
Jackalope's Prowess, Aguijón's Adverses, and seven more new stage shows

Ike Holter does it again—and so does Rey Andújar.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Aguijón Theater, Adverses, Rey Andújar, Euripides, Electra, Sándor Menéndez, Oswaldo Calderón, The Distance, Haven Theatre, Elly Green, Deborah Bruce, Medea, Phaedra Released, Poetry Is, Robert Eric Shoemaker, Catherine Theis, Mic Check, Spell, Zach Zimmerman, Cat McDonnell, iO, Interrobang Theatre, The North Pool, Rajiv Joseph, James Yost, Greg Pinsoneault, Old Hobbits Die Hard, New Millennium Theatre Company, Adam Rosowicz, Alex B. Reynolds, Die Hard, Lord of the Rings, Prowess, Sender, Ike Holter, Jackalope Theatre, Rent, Jonathan Larson, Metropolis Performing Arts Center, Lauren Rawitz, Irish Theatre of Chicago, Spinning, Deirdre Kinahan, Joanie Schultz, The Annoyance Theatre, Ben Larrison, Stevie Shale, Project #SquirrelTruth, Mick Napier, Very Much Forever

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Apr 28, 2016
Ike Holter's astonishing Sender brings a hipster back from the dead

Shade Murray directs the Chicago wunderkind's latest, now premiering at A Red Orchid Theatre.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, Sender, A Red Orchid Theatre, Ike Holter, Hit the Wall, Shade Murray, McKenzie Chinn, Steve Haggard, Mary Williamson, Steve Wilson, Cassandra, Steep Theatre, The Few, Samuel D. Hunter, Calamity West, The Rolling, Jackalope Theatre

Arts & Culture, Fall Preview Sep 9, 2015
In a time of antigovernment Oath Keepers, Idris Goodwin's The Raid seems appropriate
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Fall Arts, Fall Preview 2015, Idris Goodman, The Raid, Jackalope Theatre, John Brown

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Sidebar Jul 2, 2014
The Three Oaks Theater Festival brings off-Loop shows to Harbor County

Reprises of The Normal Heart and Exit Strategy are among the highlights at the second annual Michigan showcase.
- By Kerry Cardoza
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Three Oaks Theater Festival, Michigan's Harbor Country, lair Thomas & Company, A Piano With Three Tales, House Theatre, Dennis Watkins, The Magic Parlour, Keith Griffith, TimeLine Theatre, Larry Kramer, The Normal Heart, Northlight Theatre, Woody Sez: The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie, Ike Holter, Exit Strategy, Tony Adler, Jackalope Theatre, Seanachai Theatre Company, Eugene O'Neill, Hughie, Jeff Duhigg, Justin Hayford

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A white Canadian pop star and two Black hip-hop artists share a reality-TV crib.

The table is set this month with theater world premieres, dance works in progress, and comedy with cured meat.

Gus Menary's ensemble transforms Kenneth Lin's mechanical script into a warm, nuanced production.

And Jackalope gives it a consummate storefront staging.

A cartoon-inspired staging of the Bard and a creole update of Medea are among this week's best bets.

A dark comedy from Jackalope and a go-for-the-jugular solo performance are among this week's best bets.

In this Jackalope Theatre production, a midwestern family is plunged into drama after the daughter reveals that “the devil tells me to do things.”

A resonant period piece and a musical that does it better than the movie are among this week's best bets.

This restless rapper, poet, and actor has helped bridge cultural and racial divides in Chicago’s DIY scene on his way to bigger stages.

A drama from Pride Films and Plays and Mike Daisey's election monologue are among this week's best bets.

A satanic hand puppet, a live version of Cheers, and a Twelfth Night in Hindi are among this season’s highlights.

Sangria Festival, Puppet Meltdown, and more happenings from August 26-28.

Ike Holter does it again—and so does Rey Andújar.

Shade Murray directs the Chicago wunderkind's latest, now premiering at A Red Orchid Theatre.

Reprises of The Normal Heart and Exit Strategy are among the highlights at the second annual Michigan showcase.

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