Chicago Theaters Schedule Tonight, This Weekend And Later In 2018

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• Field and Florist creates floral arrangements for freshness and sustainability
  Farm-to-table isn't just for restaurants anymore. Field & florist, which opened in 2017 in a charming basement in Wicker Park on Division just east of Damen, grows its flowers on a 30-acre farm in southwest Michigan. Owners Heidi Joynt, 36, and Molly Kobelt, 32, say this land—surrounded by woods, vineyards, and blueberry fields—is the beating […]
• Mahalia Jackson: Moving Thru the Light sticks to the Black Ensemble Theatre formula
  The music's fabulous, but the story's thin. Jackie Taylor, the founder and leading light of the Black Ensemble Theatre, has spent her career penning and producing biographical musicals recounting the lives of prominent African-American musicians, most of whom are associated in some way with Chicago. These shows are always packed wall-to-wall with classic tunes, passionately […]
• The final 15 minutes of Dutch Masters are devastating
  But Greg Keller’s script takes way too long to get there. In his 2018 one-act, actor and writer Greg Keller creates a relationship between two young men so poignant, agonizing, and fundamental that it's difficult to believe no other playwright (at least to my knowledge) has explored this terrain before. Describing the true nature of […]
• Lit recs for people in search of pleasure
  The current book obsessions of Reader deputy editor Kate Schmidt and Super Tasty producer-host Karen Yates In Book Swap, a Reader staffer recommends between two and five books and then asks a local wordsmith, literary enthusiast, or expert to do the same. In this installment, Reader deputy editor Kate Schmidt swaps book suggestions with Karen […]
• In the Blood introduces a modern Hester Prynne
  She's got a lot more to handle than a scarlet letter. In The Blood is an adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's masterwork, The Scarlet Letter, in which Hester Prynne is required by the leaders of Puritan Boston to wear a letter A to identify her as an adulteress after she gives birth to a child while […]