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Any play that takes on Berlin during the Weimar Republic era must operate in “Cabaret’”s long shadow. “Berlin,” now in its ...
The festival promises to be as thorough and wide-ranging an introduction to absurdism as local audiences are apt to ...
Fluorescent lights overhead came on with a startling thunk. Shudders ran through the audience each time it happened. Again and again, we were caught off guard. We were unsettled—which was the point. A ...
When the inevitable happens, we are right there with each and all of them—those who make it and those who don’t—powerfully ...
The South Side-based contemporary company’s one-night program features dances by founder Kia S. Smith, Guggenheim-winner Kate Weare, and beloved former AD of River North Dance Company Frank Chaves, ...
Chicago theaters take us through history, from Galileo's heliocentrism to the invention of robots.
Running at three hours with two intermissions, “Prayer for the French Republic” is an engaging and thoughtful play that ...
Funny, thought-provoking and well-written, "A Jukebox for the Algonquin" is not just a “play about old people” but a ...
A co-production of Hedwig Dances and Germany’s Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, the programs celebrate the German modernist art and ...
In Mamet’s usual acerbic style, we learn that in a world of high-stakes competition there are no friendships. Each act is ...