Chicago Theaters Schedule Tonight, This Weekend And Later In 2019

More in Chicago:

• Mercury Theater rises from the dead
  The Southport corridor venue gets new life and new leadership. Retractions generally aren't fun for journalists. But the announcement last week that Mercury Theater Chicago isn't dead after all makes me happy—even if it means that my obituary for them as one of the losses in Chicago theater for 2020 now has to be taken […]
• Avner Landes’s Meiselman gets it right
  Even though its titular character always does just the opposite Meiselman is put-upon. Everything and everyone in his world is bent on humiliating and belittling him, so he plots his revenge.…
• For Your (Re)Consideration finds dramatic gems from the past with resonances for today
  Ghostlight Ensemble's online festival celebrates overlooked women playwrights. A group of unmarried women decide to encloister together on an idyllic estate inherited by their ringleader, Lady Happy. No men are allowed on the premises at any time.…
• Show them the money
  A movement for pay equity and transparency for theater designers scores a victory; Black Lives Black Words kicks off a new discussion series. Back in 2019, I interviewed Chicago set designer Arnel Sancianco for a short Reader profile. In the course of our discussion, he mentioned that, while creating a sustainable career as a designer […]
• What are human rights to the incarcerated?
  Two books explore the creativity of people in prison while highlighting their lack of access to basic necessities. “Art helps to free people even while incarcerated,” Renaldo Hudson says in the new book Carving Out Rights from Inside the Prison Industrial Complex.…