Chicago Theaters Schedule Tonight, This Weekend And Later In 2019
Chicago theaters schedule is updated daily, and includes events at the Chicago Theater, and at Albert Ivar Goodman Theatre.
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- A Xmas Cuento Remix suffers from last-minute cast shufflingMaya Malan-Gonzalez's contemporary Latinx take on A Christmas Carol shows promise despite production difficulties. In retelling Charles Dickens's perennial holiday classic, A Christmas Carol, playwright Maya Malan-Gonzalez performs the theatrical equivalent of completely gutting a building, keeping the foundation and outer walls, but changing everything else. Her A Xmas Cuento Remix, set in a contemporary […]
- Eye 94 opens readers’ earsLumpen hosts the only terrestrial radio show in the midwest devoted to books and authors. It's a slightly rainy late November evening and the lights are all on at Pilsen Community Books. I've come here to attend a live recording of Eye 94, a weekly program on Lumpen Radio 105.5 FM that dives deep into […]
- The Land of Forgotten Toys has forgettable songs, but a charming storyA young girl must save Christmas in this new family musical. This original Christmas show (story by Larry Little, music by Dylan MarcAurele, book and lyrics by Jaclyn Enchin and Jennifer Enchin, with additional lyrics by Mike Ross) is no worse, and no better, than your average holiday children's fare. The story, charming and silly, […]
- The White Plague follows the clash between fascism and pacifismKarel Čapek's rarely produced parable feels like a timely tragedy at Trap Door. Nicole Wiesner directs Karel Čapek's 1937 parable (translated by Peter Majer and Cathy Porter) about the clash between fascism and pacifism. In an unnamed country the citizenry is stricken with an illness which manifests in white spots on the skin and fells […]
- Midsommer Flight's Twelfth Night offers hijinks and insightThe beautiful Lincoln Park Conservatory setting is just one reason to see this returning production. William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night is only nominally a holiday show: the first recorded public performance on February 2, 1602, was on Candlemas, formally ending the "Christmastide" season at that time, and the title refers to the eve of the Feast […]
