More in Chicago:
- Comedy is back, baby!A glimpse at how stand-ups coped during the pandemic and made their triumphant return to telling jokes again. During the past year, comedians were forced, like so many others, to get creative.…
- A silence louder than wordsHow allegations of sexual abuse exposed cracks in the foundation of Young Chicago Authors, Free Write Arts & Literacy, and the city’s spoken word community Warning: This story contains brief descriptions of alleged rape and sexual assault.…
- Coming through the pandemic storm with The TempestA trash island forms the background for Oak Park Festival Theatre's outdoor staging of The Tempest. Choosing The Tempest as their first show to break the enforced theatrical silence of the past 16 months makes a lot of sense for Oak Park Festival Theatre. Shakespeare's late romance celebrates the "rough magic" of finding redemption, love, […]
- Teatro ZinZanni brings back glitz, kitsch, and the joy of livingTeatro ZinZanni,the dinner circus spectacle, reopens at the Cambria Hotel. The show begins before you enter the theater lobby on the 14th floor of the Cambria Hotel, before the costumed attendants greet you just past the revolving door at the northeast corner of Randolph and Dearborn and usher you into the elevator, before you step […]
- A Sea Change for a time of upheavalCabinet of Curiosity sets sail with a new live show about mermaids, whales, sharks, seagulls—and climate disaster It begins, as many wonderful things do, with the sea. Enter the outdoor space at Pilsen's BRNDHAUS-PLZEN, and the squawk and swoop of real-life gulls merges with those of Sea Change, the latest offering from the wildly creative […]
