Chicago Theaters Schedule Tonight, This Weekend And Later In 2018

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• The Chicago hat is definitely the best part of The Princess Switch
  Welcome to Flopcorn, where Reader writers and contributors pay tribute to our very favorite bad movies. In this installment, social media editor Brianna Wellen and staff writer Leor Galil discuss the bizarre appeal of the Netflix holiday extravaganza The Princess Switch. Brianna Wellen: I first clicked on The Princess Switch on Netflix because I have an […]
• The cleverest part of Bite Size Broadway is the title
  It's all downhill after the Fosse-packed opening number. Probably the cleverest thing about this Annoyance show, which promises to deliver eight minimusicals, is its title. The second cleverest thing is its opening number, choreographed by Lily Staski and packed with tongue-in-cheek renditions of various Broadway dance clichés and references, in both lyrics and tune, to […]
• See it now: 'The Many Hats of Ralph Arnold'
  There’s still time to catch "The Many Hats of Ralph Arnold: Art, Identity & Politics" at Columbia College’s Museum of Contemporary Photography. But not a lot of time: the show of seldom-seen work by this black gay artist and educator whose collages captured the social upheavals of the 1960s and ’70s closes December 21. …
• The Joffrey’s Nutcracker abandons plot, pathos, and palatable choreography in favor of special effects
  The most memorable dances, unfortunately, are the most offensive. Curtain up on the Joffrey's third season of Christopher Wheeldon's Nutcracker, which resituates the popular Christmas ballet in Chicago during the 1893 Columbian Exposition. In his note to the program, artistic director Ashley Wheater quotes historian Peter Bacon Hales: "The White City is a utopian city, […]
• Lit (and food) recs for the politically minded Chicagoan
  The current book obsessions of Reader deputy editor Kate Schmidt and OneIllinois editor Ted Cox In Book Swap, a Reader staffer recommends two to five books and then asks a local wordsmith, literary enthusiast, or publishing-adjacent professional to do the same.…