Chicago Theaters Schedule Tonight, This Weekend And Later In 2018

More in Chicago:

• In one big weekend, Chicago Opera Theater shows off an opera in progress and a brand-new production
  The Life and Death(s) of Alan Turing is revelatory; The Scarlet Ibis is not. Last weekend was an auspicious one for Chicago Opera Theater. On Friday, at DePaul University’s handsome Gannon Concert Hall, COT presented The Life and Death(s) of Alan Turing, an opera in progress by composer Justine F. Chen and librettist David Simpatico.…
• The Total Bent is more than a great musical—it’s great art
  It's also a bitingly irreverent satire. Salvation awaits at The Total Bent, the bitingly irreverent musical satire from Haven Theatre. Papa Joe is a gospel preacher and singer hell-bent on saving souls through televangelism.…
• The Soccer Player in the Closet attempts to conjure the existential despair of the handset and the Pringles tube
  Unfortunately, Nothing Without a Company can't make this interesting theater. As excuses never to leave the house go, Christiano (Rolando Serrano) has more than his fair share. He's a former world champion at competitive online soccer who made so much money gaming that he could support his whole extended family, all without getting off the […]
• Haymarket Books publishes reading material for radicals
  From political theory to hip-hop poetry, the Chicago publisher sells not just books, but the idea of a new society. "It is that experience of reading a book which can most politicize and most radicalize people," says Anthony Arnove, a founding editor and editorial board member of Haymarket Books, Chicago's foremost progressive publisher.…
• Raven’s How I Learned to Drive lacks horsepower
  Paula Vogel's play is a stunner, but this production hits a few wrong notes. Paula Vogel's Pulitzer-winning How I Learned to Drive is a stunner. A memoir of sexual abuse in 1960s Maryland, the piece emerges as the associative leaps of a digressive memory shored up by the cool technical outlook of an instruction manual […]