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Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Dec 21, 2017
Thirteen holiday shows that will delight (or disgust or bore or just entertain) you

Hell in a Handbag's 20th annual production of Rudolph the Red-Hosed Reindeer is among the yuletide highlights.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Barney the Elf, the Other Theatre Company, Dixie Lynn Cartwright, Roy Samra, Christmas Bingo: It's a Ho-Ho-Holy Night, Late Nite Catechism, Vicki Quade, Nuns 4 Fun Entertainment, Royal George Theatre, A Christmas Carol, Goodman Theatre, Henry Wishcamper, Tom Creamer, Larry Yando, Charles Dickens, The Christmas Schooner, Mercury Theatre, John Reeger, Julie Shannon, L. Walter Stearns, Hellcab, the Agency Theater Collective, Will Kern, Rusty Schwimmer, Profiles Theatre, American Blues Theater, It's a Wonderful Life: Live in Chicago!, It's a Wonderful Life, Frank Capra, Bedford Falls, Gwendolyn Whiteside, Camille Robinson, John Mohrlein, Michael Mahler, The Nutcracker, E.T.A. Hoffmann, the House Theatre of Chicago, Haley Seda, Chris Matthews, Q Brothers Christmas Carol, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Hell in a Handbag Productions, David Cerda, Rudolph the Red-Hosed Reindeer, Michael Jack Hampton, Terry McCarthy, Graham Thomas Heacock, Kristoffer Bottrall, Black Ensemble Theatre, Sammy: A Tribute to Sammy Davis Jr., Daryl D. Brooks, Kenny Davis, This Way Outta Santaland (and Other Xmas Miracles), Theater Wit, Mitchell Fain, The Santaland Diaries, David Sedaris, Meghan Murphy, Yippe Ki-Yay Merry Christmas: A Die Hard Christmas Musical, MCL, Die Hard, Alan Metoskie, Michael Shepherd Jordan, Gary Fields, The Customer Is Always Right? Holiday Edition, the Annoyance, improv

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Dec 13, 2017
Beautiful, Bad Hombres, and nine more holiday stage shows to see

An Equity touring production of the Carole King musical and an evening of Latinx sketch comedy are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Altar Boyz, Sawyer Smith, Courtney Crouse, Gary Adler, Michael Patrick Walker, KevinDel Aquila, Marc J. Kessler, Ken Davenport, Theo Ubique, musical theater, Bad Hombres, Rich Alfonso, Miguel Lepe, sketch comedy, Latino comics, Mario, Damian Anaya, Cesar Jaime, Jose Molina, Spic & Tan, Chris Farley Cabaret, iO Theater, Beautiful, Carole King, Broadway musical, bio-musical, the Shirelles, Bobby Vee, Gerry Goffin, Brill Building, Sarah Bockel, Marc Bruni, The Character Assassination of Donald Trump, Eric Coleman, Jamie Quinones, Dave Kwitkowski, Jenny Miller, Meir Steinberg, Mercury Theater, The Christmas Schooner, holiday musical, Julie Shannon, John Reeger, L. Walter Stearns, Gingerbread Grindhouse, Ghostlight Ensemble, Maria Burnham, The Nutcracker, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Tatum Hunter, Sean Harklerode, Chad Wise, Red Theater, Little Red Cyrano, Cyrano de Bergerac, Aaron Sawyer, Hell in a Handbag Productions, David Cerda, Rudolph the Red-Hosed Reindeer, Michael Jack Hampton, Terry McCarthy, Graham Thomas Heacock, Kristogger Bottrall, E.D.G.E. Theatre, Steampunk Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, Industrial Revolution, Jared McDaris, Trap Door Theatre, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, They, Polish avant-garde, Beata Pilch, Mary-Kate Arnold, Carl Wisniewski, ’Twas the Night Before Christmas, ’Twas the Fight Before Christmas, Public House Theatre, Robert Frosty

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Dec 7, 2016
This Way Outta Santaland, Home for Hanukkah With Bubbe, and six more new holiday stage shows

Santa Diaries veteran Mitchell Fain returns with a revue of his own.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, This Way Outta Santaland (and Other Xmas Miracles), Mitchell Fain, The Santaland Diaries, holiday revues, comedy, Barney the Elf, The Other Theatre Company, Christmas at Christine's, Christine Bunuan, Ryan Brewster, Silk Road Rising, The Christmas Schooner, John Reeger, Julie Shannon, Peter Stossel, Goy to the World and a Happy New Year, Home for Hanukkah With Bubbe: An Interactive Holidays Experience, David Sedaris, Meghan Murphy, Julie B. Nichols, Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare, Lincoln Park Conservatory, Midsommer Flight, Sir Toby Belch, Kanomé Jones, Nick Loumos, Chris Smith, Meredith Ernst, Alex Mauney, Stage 773, Indie Boots, New American Folk Theatre, The Right Brain Project, Reutan Collective, Hobo Junction Productions, The Gift of the Magi, Little Women, Anthony Whitaker, It's a Holiday, Charlie Brown

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Dec 11, 2015
The touring Broadway hit Beautiful, Noël Coward's Fallen Angels, and 16 more new and notable shows

Including, yes, more holiday fare
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Barney the Elf, Dixie Lynn Cartwright, Yando Lopez, The Other Theatre Company, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Bernarda Alba and Her House, Robert Eric Shoemaker, Redtwist Theatre, Federico García Lorca, Boom, Honest Theatre, Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, Christmas Dearest, Hell in a Handbag, David Cerda, Joan Crawford, The Christmas Schooner, Fallen Angels, Remy Bummpo, Noël Coward, Holiday Special, pH Comedy Theater, Sharla Beaver, Becca Levine, A Kokandy Christmas, The Lion King, Patrick R. Brown, Maul Santa: The Musical, Miracle on 34th Street, Artistic Home Theatre, Jack Bourgeois, Jenna Steege, My Way: A Tribute to the Music of Frank Sinatra, Theo Ubique, No Exit, Potted Potter, Daniel Clarkson, Jefferson Turner, Harry Potter, A Q Brothers' Christmas Carol, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Robin Hood and Maid Marian, Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Foresters, Forks & Hope, Twelfth Night, Lincoln Park Conservatory, Midsommer Flight, Elizabeth Rentfro, Jared Dennis, Adam Habben, Poetry Is

Blogs, Bleader Dec 1, 2011
The latest Reader performing arts reviews

A rundown of newly reviewed shows in the performing arts.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Onstage, Performing Arts, Arts, A Christmas Carol, A Christmas Carol: The Silent Bah-humbug, The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey, The Christmas Schooner, Crime and Pun-ishment, Itâ€™s a Wonderful Life: Live at the Biograph, A Klingon Christmas Carol, Memphis, Orange Orbs, Pirates of Penzance, Pump Boys and Dinettes, Theo Ubique, Redmoon Winter Pageant, The Santaland Diaries, Tinsel: The Musical, The Santa Stories: The Naughty One, The Santa Stories: The Nice One, Muntu Dance Theatre of Chicago

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Thirteen holiday shows that will delight (or disgust or bore or just entertain) you

Hell in a Handbag's 20th annual production of Rudolph the Red-Hosed Reindeer is among the yuletide highlights.

Beautiful, Bad Hombres, and nine more holiday stage shows to see

An Equity touring production of the Carole King musical and an evening of Latinx sketch comedy are among this week's best bets.

This Way Outta Santaland, Home for Hanukkah With Bubbe, and six more new holiday stage shows

Santa Diaries veteran Mitchell Fain returns with a revue of his own.

The touring Broadway hit Beautiful, Noël Coward's Fallen Angels, and 16 more new and notable shows

Including, yes, more holiday fare

Reader's Agenda, Christmas Eve: Notable plays, movies, and some Porn and Chicken

Reader's Agenda, Christmas Eve, 2012

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Thirteen holiday shows that will delight (or disgust or bore or just entertain) you

Hell in a Handbag's 20th annual production of Rudolph the Red-Hosed Reindeer is among the yuletide highlights.

Beautiful, Bad Hombres, and nine more holiday stage shows to see

An Equity touring production of the Carole King musical and an evening of Latinx sketch comedy are among this week's best bets.

This Way Outta Santaland, Home for Hanukkah With Bubbe, and six more new holiday stage shows

Santa Diaries veteran Mitchell Fain returns with a revue of his own.

The touring Broadway hit Beautiful, Noël Coward's Fallen Angels, and 16 more new and notable shows

Including, yes, more holiday fare

Reader's Agenda, Christmas Eve: Notable plays, movies, and some Porn and Chicken

Reader's Agenda, Christmas Eve, 2012

The latest Reader performing arts reviews

A rundown of newly reviewed shows in the performing arts.

Other Searches