Brave. Poignant. Inspirational. These are the default adjectives writers are supposed to use when describing an autobiographical narrative centered around a cancer battle. And while they all certainly apply to […]
The Chicago Opera Theater (COT) presented Shakespeare Sings last weekend, an excellent concert of arias from operas by Verdi, Wagner, Britten, and other composers whose works are performed less frequently. […]
It’s officially that time of year. The temperature is cooling down, the sun is setting earlier, and the spooky, Halloween vibe is starting to take over. If this is the […]
The lights come up and a fight begins. A Recruit chooses to fight an officer as a test of her fitness to join the Army. Members of the Army look […]
No Kings protests made Saturday an auspicious day across the nation, and the perfect way to wind down was a dance concert by Giordano Dance Chicago (GDC). Ignite the Soul […]
Something unusual happened Monday night as we entered Goodman’s Owen Theatre. We were offered ear plugs. And I thought to myself, yes, this is going to be good—and loud. The […]
Tom Arnold knows what you’re thinking—or rather, who you’re thinking—when you hear that his latest comedy tour is titled My Crazy X-Wife. But, he says, Roseanne Barr is “not even […]
Three ageless witchy sisters live together in a basement apartment in Bushwick, a Brooklyn neighborhood something like Edgewater or Andersonville. Wyrd is a 2018 play written by Matt Minnicino that […]
The Lyric Opera of Chicago opened its 2025/26 season with a blockbuster with Italian composer Luigi Cherubini’s Medea. Just hearing the name evokes a dark tale of obsession, misogyny, and […]
Amiri Baraka was still LeRoi Jones when he wrote Dutchman in 1964. The play, now being staged by Trap Door Theatre, is an early dialogue on race, class and power. […]
Oak is my third experience with the work of playwright Terry Guest. His work reveals the visceral aspects of the Black experience in America with stark realism, some magical realism, […]
This is the fourth and final article in our series, The Art of Survival. See links and info about the series at the end of this article. Sexpert Dan Savage […]