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Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Mar 18, 2021
Ken-Matt Martin takes over at Victory Gardens

After a tumultuous year, the theater's new artistic director is ready to listen as well as lead.
- By Kerry Reid
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Ken-Matt Martin, Victory Gardens Theater, Biograph, Liliana Padilla, Roxanna Conner, Charles E. Harris II, Chay Yew, Erica Daniels, Dennis Začek, Marcelle McVay, Steven Miller, Erika Dickerson-Despenza, Cullud Wattah, Goodman Theatre, Pyramid Theatre, Sideshow Theatre, W

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Apr 23, 2020
When the lively arts go virtual

Two Reader critics talk about digital dance and theater—and other COVID-19 challenges.
- By Irene Hsiao and Kerry Reid
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Arts and Business Council, Chicago Dancemakers Forum, coronavirus, COVID-19, Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago, DCASE, High Concept Labs, Links Hall, Museum of Contemporary Art, Nederlands Dans Theater, Neo-Futur, Pina Bausch, Pivot Arts, See Chicago Dance, Sideshow Theatre

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Oct 2, 2019
Space madness descends in X

A group of stranded space explorers confront their mortality and humanity in Sideshow's U.S. premiere.
- By Josh Flanders
- Tags: Theater Review, X, Sideshow Theatre, Alistair McDowall, Jonathan L. Green, H.B. Ward, Sarah Price, Gage Wallace, Yu Shibagaki, Jordan Kordasz, Paul Deziel

Arts & Culture, Fall Theater and Dance Sep 11, 2019
Grit and heart: Arnel Sancianco draws on both for his evocative theater sets

With two major shows opening this fall, the designer's career is booming—but he's focused on making audiences connect emotionally with the world of the play.
- By Kerry Reid
- Tags: Fall Theater and Dance, Arnel Sancianco, Drury Lane Theatre, Writers Theatre, Court Theatre, Haven Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Sideshow Theatre, Rivendell Theatre

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jul 5, 2018
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Why does a sea mammal evoke more sympathy than a black man?, asks Tilikum

Kristiana Rae Colón's new play, inspired by the documentary Blackfish, tells the tragic story of an orca whale imprisoned at Sea World.
- By Irene Hsiao
- Tags: Theater Review, Tilikum, Sideshow Theatre, orca whale, Sea World, Dawn Brancheau, Kristiana Rae Colón, Lili-Anne Brown, Gregory Geffrard, animal rights, prison reform, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Mar 18, 2016
Lookingglass's Blood Wedding, Strawdog's D.O.A., and nine more notable current stage shows

García Lorca gets transplanted to the Dust Bowl, and an off-Loop mainstay goes noir.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Lookingglass Theatre, Federico Garcia Lorca, Blood Wedding, Daniel Ostling, Kareem Bandealy, Mercy Street Theatre, Ian Michael James, Burn, J. Cody Spellman, Strawdog Theatre, D.O.A., Leo C. Popkin, 42nd Street, City Lit Theatre, Harold Arlen, I've Got the World on a String, Sheldon Patinkin, Kingsley Day, Profiles Theatre, Darrell W. Cox, Joe Jahraus, Jez Butterworth, AmarA*jk, Thad Halstein, Jerusalem, Mai Lang Dao, Sideshow Theatre, David Jacobi, Marti Lyons, The Matchmaker, Thornton Wilder, Goodman Theatre, Hello, Dolly!, Henry Wishcamper, Jerry Herman, The New Sincerity, Theater Wit, Jeremy Wechsler, Erin Long, Alex Stein, Alena Smith, Zuccotti Park, Pride Films & Plays, Delia Kropp, David Valdes Greenwood, Raggedy And, Recent Tragic Events, Craig Wright, 9/11, Interrobang Theatre Project, World Trade Center, Joyce Carol Oates

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Nov 25, 2015
Ain't Misbehavin', Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy, and 11 more new reviews

Among them, a Nutcracker sans bratty kids and sugar-plum fairies and other holiday fare
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Ain't Misbehavin', Porchlight Music Theatre, Fats Waller, Angina Pectoris, Shpiel Performing Identity, Based on a True Story, Nora Dunn, Under the Gun Theater, Julia Sweeney, D.B. Sweeney, Paul Meincke, A Christmas Carol: The Musical, Quest Theatre, A Christmas Carol, Goodman Theatre, Larry Yando, Incident at Vichy, Redtwist Theatre, Arthur Miller, No More Sad Things, Elly Green, Sideshow Theatre, The House Theatre of Chicago, The Nutcracker, Erik Jan Hanussen, Palace of the Occult, Eclectic Full Contact Theatre, ShawChicago, Private Lives, Noël Coward, Sad Songs for Bad People, Rough House Puppet Theatre, The Santaland Diaries, David Sedaris, Mitchell Fain, Tea, Velina Hasu Houston, Prologue Theatre

Blogs, Bleader Mar 11, 2009
New Reader reviews

New Reader reviews
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Performing Arts, Onstage, Arts, Chicago Dramatists, Playground Theater, Storefront Theater, Teatro Luna, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Theatre Mir, The Arab-Israeli Cookbook, Brick Wall, Gorilla Tango, Camp Freedom, Black Sheep Productions, Everything Freezes, Sideshow Theatre, The Goat, Redtwist, Marriott Lincolnshire, Playing with Fire, BoHo Theatre, Police Academy: Insurgency Emergency, New Millennium Theatre, The Secrets Project, Genesis Ensemble, S-E-X-Oh! The Remix, The Shape of a Girl, Pegasus Players, The Solid Gold Cadillac, Open Eye Productions, Trying Too Hard, Athenaeum

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Ken-Matt Martin takes over at Victory Gardens

After a tumultuous year, the theater's new artistic director is ready to listen as well as lead.

When the lively arts go virtual

Two Reader critics talk about digital dance and theater—and other COVID-19 challenges.

Space madness descends in X

A group of stranded space explorers confront their mortality and humanity in Sideshow's U.S. premiere.

Grit and heart: Arnel Sancianco draws on both for his evocative theater sets

With two major shows opening this fall, the designer's career is booming—but he's focused on making audiences connect emotionally with the world of the play.

Recommended
Why does a sea mammal evoke more sympathy than a black man?, asks Tilikum

Kristiana Rae Colón's new play, inspired by the documentary Blackfish, tells the tragic story of an orca whale imprisoned at Sea World.

Lookingglass's Blood Wedding, Strawdog's D.O.A., and nine more notable current stage shows

García Lorca gets transplanted to the Dust Bowl, and an off-Loop mainstay goes noir.

Ain't Misbehavin', Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy, and 11 more new reviews

Among them, a Nutcracker sans bratty kids and sugar-plum fairies and other holiday fare

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After a tumultuous year, the theater's new artistic director is ready to listen as well as lead.

Two Reader critics talk about digital dance and theater—and other COVID-19 challenges.

A group of stranded space explorers confront their mortality and humanity in Sideshow's U.S. premiere.

With two major shows opening this fall, the designer's career is booming—but he's focused on making audiences connect emotionally with the world of the play.

Kristiana Rae Colón's new play, inspired by the documentary Blackfish, tells the tragic story of an orca whale imprisoned at Sea World.

García Lorca gets transplanted to the Dust Bowl, and an off-Loop mainstay goes noir.

Among them, a Nutcracker sans bratty kids and sugar-plum fairies and other holiday fare

New Reader reviews

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