The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performed three new works and Ailey’s rousing Revelations at its Saturday matinee performance. Everything about this performance felt fresh, with brilliant colors and powerful […]
Didę by Compagnie Multicorps, a celebration of body and spirit in tribute to Ìyá Nlá, the Yoruba deity of creation, deities, and all of life, was performed last weekend. Ìyá […]
The Movement You Need: An Evening With Brendan Hunt, directed by Ashley Rodbro, is a humorous and deeply touching dive into the life of Emmy and SAG Award winner and […]
Improv, standup, sketch, TV, film—however you like to laugh, Dewayne Perkins does it, and he does it brilliantly. One of comedy’s finest rising voices, the Chicago native and Brooklyn Nine-Nine […]
What’s true? Of course, there’s no manageable answer to that. But it’s hard to avoid asking that question throughout Teatro Vista’s world premiere of Paloma Nozicka’s Both, co-produced by Steppenwolf […]
Burt Bacharach’s music is famously hard to play and all‑too‑easy to cheapen. The show’s excellent Chicago‑based band proves the former with dazzling precision, while the production ladles on the latter […]
Rick Steves was in the spotlight this week for the Spring Chicago Humanities Festival. Steves is a travel virtuoso, activist, and humanitarian. He is known for his travel series, seen […]
The Dover Road is a vintage play, a comedy of manners with a twist. Ghostlight Ensemble is staging the 1921 A.A. Milne script, directed by Holly Robison, in an interesting […]
Last weekend, Lyric Opera of Chicago staged its world premiere of Safronia, a new work by avery r. young, Chicago’s inaugural poet laureate and a celebrated interdisciplinary artist. Safronia is […]
Static-Head, the new science fiction play by Impostors Theatre Co., lectures about the cost of artificial intelligence: it strips creativity, it combines old ideas without contributing anything new. Yet the […]
You know how kids try to avoid going to bed at night? If you’re a parent or grandparent or sitter, you know the drill. Mama, I’m not sleepy. Will you […]
When Michael Longfellow joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in 2022, his dry, sharp wit earned immediate comparisons to legends like Norm MacDonald and Bill Hader. Best remembered for […]