Chicago Theaters Schedule Tonight, This Weekend And Later In 2019

More in Chicago:

• Bronzeville Children’s Museum ahead of the COVID-19 curve
  The country’s first and only African American children’s museum may not have planned for the pandemic, but it was ready. This year brought a resurgence of putting Black pride onstage and a national recognition of Juneteenth—and it was also the first in many years that the Bronzeville Children’s Museum did not have its annual celebration. […]
• Prop Thtr gives up its longtime Avondale home
  But the company remains true to its focus on new work and egalitarian principles. Prop Thtr will probably never produce Stephen Sondheim's Follies. Yet somehow, the news earlier this month that they will be moving out of their longtime two-venue space in Avondale by October made me envision Carlotta the aging showgirl, crooning "good times […]
• From Greenhouse to hotbed
  A show reopens and closes under fire; plus new leadership and a new funding initiative for Black theater makers Last weekend, Judy and Liza—Once in a Lifetime: The London Palladium Concert—A Tribute became the first indoor theater production in Chicago to open in phase four (or reopen, more accurately, since it originally ran for one […]
• Semicolon Bookstore is a community, online and off
  The Black-owned bookstore thrives as a community-oriented business. One day in April 2019, DL Mullen was wandering around Halsted and Grand.…
• #BlackArtMatters in new coloring book
  Two teens created the project to highlight Black joy, influential Black figures, and impactful change rooted in the Black Lives Matter movement. With the Black Lives Matter movement taking center focus in Chicago and outside our city walls, the community is teeming with active engagement and empowerment. We see this with protests, public art, music, […]