Chicago Theaters Schedule Tonight, This Weekend And Later In 2018
Chicago theaters schedule is updated daily, and includes events at the Chicago Theater, and at Albert Ivar Goodman Theatre.
More in Chicago:
- Mahjong is experiencing a renaissance downtownIt’s like Crazy Rich Asians except way less intense. The climax of last summer's hit movie Crazy Rich Asians featured a tense exchange between two characters over a round of the Chinese tile game of mahjong. Mahjong games here in Chicago, though—at least those organized by Debbie Turner—are more congenial and less intense.…
- City and neighborhood festivalsGood times, good times April…
- Medusa Undone argues that even gorgons suffer from rape cultureOtherworld retells the old myth from a feminist perspective. Greek myths are essentially ancient soap operas, and such is the case with Medusa Undone, which reexamines the origin of the well-known monster but told through a modern feminist lens. Here the gods Athena and Poseidon are cast as monsters and Medusa is a timid sea […]
- Corona boldly embraces every space opera clicheOtherworld's mashup of Greek mythology and Star Trek is campy fun. Campy and fun, Elizabeth A.M. Keel's Corona follows the voyage of the starship Corona Borealis and its captain, Ariadne, on a mission to bring 14 sacrifices to the minotaur on planet Crete. A spin on the classic Greek myth, it hits every great sci-fi […]
- Nureyev tells the epic story of the dancer’s extraordinary life and tumultuous times“He was Mick Jagger before Mick Jagger.” He moved with a feral grace, with a heat that blazes through the grain of the film that remains, with a virtuosity that never disguises—but rather illuminates—the sheer risk of dance, the insolence of a human daring to flout the laws of gravity, time, and space to attain […]
