Chicago Theaters Schedule Tonight, This Weekend And Later In 2018

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• Refuge Theatre lifts Hands on a Hardbody out of complete banality
  "If you want something," they sing, "keep your hands on it." Based on S.R. Bindler's 1997 documentary of the same name, this 2012 Broadway musical focuses on an annual Texas endurance competition in which contestants vie for a pickup truck by touching it. Whoever keeps a hand on longest wins.…
• Reading the Comments
  Take an illustrated journey through the Reader's online comments. …
• Survival of the starter home
  Could a design contest help replenish Chicago’s affordable housing stock? Those iconic, boxy beauties known as Chicago bungalows were the starter homes for a generation of immigrants looking to begin a new life in the city.…
• Detour Guide isn't sure where it's going
  Karim Nagi takes his audience on a tour of the Arab world beyond Aladdin. At the beginning of this discursive one-man show, a Silk Road Rising/Stage Left coproduction, Egyptian-American musician and storyteller Karim Nagi announces he's taking his audience on a fanciful junket through the Arab world in order to counter the pervasive Western misrepresentations […]
• Herland follows three women as they age into their glory days
  Against a background of Springsteen songs, they realize that baby, they were born to run. It's time to induct Bruce Springsteen into the Queer Icon Hall of Fame. While some may scoff and insist that he's the Poet Laureate of Suburban White Dads, Springsteen's approaches to masculinity, nationality, and longing shaped my own understanding of […]