Chicago Theaters Schedule Tonight, This Weekend And Later In 2019

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• Winter theater and dance in Chicago provides a home away from home
  On nights when the temperature falls into single digits and icy sidewalks (clear that stuff, people!) make the public way treacherous, it's easy to find reasons to stay home.  But the months ahead also offer intriguing theatrical ways to think about what "home" in Chicago means.…
• Congo Square celebrates its roots with the satirical Day of Absence
  Douglas Turner Ward's classic one-act kicks off their 20th season. Derrick Sanders and Reginald Nelson arrived in Chicago in 1999 with a singular goal: to start a theater company that could fuse the ensemble aesthetic of a Steppenwolf with a focus on work that expressed and arose from the African Diaspora experience. The pair had […]
• Once on This Island proves it takes a village
  The central romance feels overly familiar, but this touring production's ensemble creates a magical environment. Your affection for Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's 1990 musical Once on This Island may well depend upon how much patience you have for narratives about young heroines who sacrifice all for the love of men who clearly don't deserve […]
• Gina DeLuca walks the live lit line between funny and tragic
  Her new monthly showcase at Duke of Perth creates a community for newbies and vets alike. Gina DeLuca is a 32-year-old Chicago-based writer and live lit performer who specializes in wry, personal essays. She has performed readings of her work at CIC Theatre, iO, and Steppenwolf Theatre.…
• Barbara Jordan's story takes center stage in Voice of Good Hope
  City Lit's docudrama captures some of the “moral muck” facing the south's first Black Congresswoman. Clocking in at 95 minutes, City Lit's production of Voice of Good Hope (directed by Terry McCabe) isn't long enough to capture the multitudes of its subject— the indomitable U.S. Representative Barbara Jordan, the first African American Congresswoman from the […]