Issue Archives
Mar 28 - Apr 3, 2019
Issue Archive for Mar 28 - Apr 3, 2019 Vol. 48, No. 25
Spring Theater and Dance Issue
The homegrown Chicago-style circus
Puppet renaissance man
Links Hall celebrates 40 years
The weirdos and visionaries of Prop Thtr
News & Politics
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Chicago Reader & Lumpen Radio Election Party 3
Come celebrate the runoff results with live election coverage from Back Room Deal duo Ben Joravsky and Maya Dukmasova.
by Reader staff | Mar 26, 2019
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Live from C2E2
by Rivven Prink | Apr 1, 2019
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A clear line in the sand: the 30th Ward 2
by Maya Dukmasova | Mar 27, 2019
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The ignored wards: runoffs in the 15th, 16th, and 21st 1
by Maya Dukmasova | Mar 28, 2019
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More money no problems 2
For the first time in decades, Chicago has a say in who its treasurer will be. But what the hell does the treasurer even do?
by Maya Dukmasova | Mar 28, 2019
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The road to victory
A timeline of historic moments in LGBTQ elected history in the Chicago area.
by Reader staff | Apr 1, 2019
Columns & Opinion
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Lori and Toni were missing in action 11
Lightfoot and Preckwinkle claim to be progressives but they stayed away from the front lines during the great fights of the Rahm years.
by Ben Joravsky | Mar 29, 2019
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Sad boys and vaginal design 1
Audience-submitted questions from a live event in Portland, Oregon
by Dan Savage | Mar 28, 2019
Music
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Blues bassist Calvin ‘Fuzz’ Jones made Muddy Waters sound his best
by Steve Krakow | Mar 26, 2019
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C.H.E.W. take a bite out of hardcore
The Chicago four-piece twist and tear at their favorite genre to give it a strange new shape.
by Leor Galil | Mar 29, 2019
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Tara Terra front woman Emily Blue drops a newly expanded solo synth-pop EP
Plus: Singer-songwriter Marian Runk celebrates a vivid, folky debut album, and south-side community radio station WHPK hosts a benefit at the Bottle.
by J.R. Nelson | Mar 27, 2019
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Bring your own modular on the gig poster of the week
by Salem Collo-Julin | Mar 27, 2019
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The schedule for the 2019 Millennium Park Summer Music Series is here! 4
Its 11 shows can't make up for all the series DCASE has killed, but booking Jupiter & Okwess, Chucho Valdes, Car Seat Headrest, Lydia Loveless, and Los Amigos Invisibles helps a lot.
by Leor Galil | Mar 28, 2019
Arts & Culture
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More than skin deep: photos from the Chicago Tattoo Arts Convention
More than 5,000 tattoo enthusiasts and artists from the U.S., Asia, Europe, and South America gathered in Rosemont.
by Pat Nabong | Mar 26, 2019
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Lemonade Stand offers a safe space for women of color to be funny 1
"As women of color, life continuously gives us lemons."
by Brianna Wellen | Mar 29, 2019
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, step right up to the magical, the thrilling, the Chicago-style circus! 1
Midnight Circus and Aloft Circus Arts have created their own intimate version of the big top in the city’s lofts and churches.
by Max Maller | Mar 28, 2019
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For 30 years, puppeteer Blair Thomas has been creating visual spectacle on and off Chicago’s stages
“If you’re doing something associated with puppetry in Chicago, you have to think about Blair.”
by Dan Jakes | Mar 28, 2019
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Violet, Private Eye
by Melissa Mendes | Mar 30, 2019
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Prairie Pothole
by John Porcellino | Mar 30, 2019
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P.L. Dermes in: "Follicular"
by Mike Centeno | Mar 30, 2019
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Links Hall celebrates 40 years of being whatever the Chicago dance community needs it to be
It’s been a rehearsal room, a performance venue, a puppetry workshop, and a space for experiments of all kinds.
by Irene Hsiao | Mar 28, 2019
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Olivia Lilley leads Prop Thtr’s gang of misfits, weirdos, and visionaries into the spotlight
Under its new director, the Avondale theater's experiments will continue.
by KT Hawbaker | Mar 28, 2019
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Note from an editor
by Aimee Levitt | Mar 28, 2019
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How Lily Be made the local storytelling scene look more like Chicago 1
“Am I the only Latinx sharing stories right now? Where are the rest of us?”
by Catey Sullivan | Mar 28, 2019
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Jackalope and Raven Theatres take audiences on a trip back to 1992
Dutch Masters and The Undeniable Sound of Right Now ask how much has really changed in politics and music.
by Catey Sullivan | Mar 28, 2019
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The Adventures of Augie March, Six, and Queen of the Mist bring defiance and derring-do to Chicago stages
Kerry Reid’s top picks for spring theater
by Kerry Reid | Mar 28, 2019
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What did a 1930s ballet say about cultural appropriation in modernist Chicago?
La Guiablesse was imagined by and starring a white woman who choreographed the piece for her city’s most talented black dancers.
by Liesl Olson | Mar 28, 2019
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Leave the Light On
The ghost light, a single bulb in an empty theater, is for safety—and superstition.
by Matthew Gilson | Mar 29, 2019
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This Melancholy Play is also twee as hell
Sarah Ruhl’s contemporary farce crosses the line from self-awareness to self-parody.
by Dan Jakes | Mar 27, 2019
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Sweat shows how Trump's America came to be
Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer winner should be required viewing.
by Max Maller | Mar 27, 2019
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After 40 years, Ntozake Shange’s choreopoem for colored girls remains a stunner
Court Theatre’s production is one of the highlights of the season.
by Sheri Flanders | Mar 27, 2019
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Best for Winter undergoes a late thaw
A simple, elegant Shakespeare adaptation
by Jack Helbig | Mar 28, 2019
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ShawChicago goes out the way it came in, with The Doctor's Dilemma
The company ends its run with the same play with which it first debuted in 1994.
by Albert Williams | Mar 29, 2019
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Landladies explores the power dynamic between renters and owners
It's a moving depiction of crippling homelessness and how solutions feel completely out of reach.
by Marissa Oberlander | Mar 28, 2019
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My Name is Rachel Corrie shows that tragic source material doesn't make great drama
Sitting through this play is like spending an hour and a half with a Greenpeace volunteer on the street.
by Dmitry Samarov | Apr 1, 2019
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The best part of Self-Accusation happens out on the sidewalk 2
Breaking the frame brings this German avant garde play to life.
by Max Maller | Mar 29, 2019
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Poseidon! is still shipshape 1
A stellar cast keeps the parody musical cruising.
by Kerry Reid | Mar 29, 2019
