Chicago Theaters Schedule Tonight, This Weekend And Later In 2019
Chicago theaters schedule is updated daily, and includes events at the Chicago Theater, and at Albert Ivar Goodman Theatre.
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- Defending your lifeHow to Defend Yourself and Do You Feel Anger? ask us to consider how to survive patriarchy without losing our minds—and bodies. The fish has rotted from the head all the way to the last scale on the tail. The rule of law feels like a joke.…
- "BUILD YOUR SELF," Light in Winter, Uppers and Downers, and more to do this weekendArts and culture happenings from Fri 2/21 to Sun 2/23. There are plenty of reasons to leave your house this weekend.…
- Sandra Bland's life and death provides the inspiration for graveyard shiftThe Goodman's production is lyrical and heartbreaking. Quentin Tarantino's movie Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood is in part a gauzy wish fulfillment fantasy that fictionalizes and rewrites the true-life brutal murder of actor Sharon Tate.…
- Stick Fly takes flight at WritersA wealthy Black family confronts secrets and internalized self-loathing in Lydia Diamond's acerbic drama. In 2017, First Floor Theater premiered Leah Nanako Winkler's Two Mile Hollow—a send-up of what Winkler terms "white people by the water" plays, in which a wealthy clan gathers at a beach house to fight, reveal secrets, and reminisce. The catch […]
- Shear Madness is retro, but not rewardingMercury Theater Chicago's revival of this murder mystery party game can't overcome the dated material. Adapted by Marilyn Abrams and Bruce Jordan from the original play Scherenschnitt, (scissors cut), by German playwright Paul Pörtner, Shear Madness is not so much a fully realized work of comic theater as a kind of silly party game writ […]
