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on November 6, 2019 at 12:00PM
Logan Square Improv Runner-Up
Steppenwolf Runner-Up
Gift Theatre
by Kate Schmidt on November 6, 2019 at 12:00PM
On its website, Jefferson Park's tiny the Gift Theatre states as one of its founding beliefs that "a play never closes until everyone who saw it stops thinking about it." Which means maybe I should let the ensemble know that, thanks to me, their powerhouse 2018 production of Hamlet—directed by Monty Cole, with Daniel Kyri heading a mostly Black cast—is still running.
Trap Door Theatre
by Catey Sullivan on November 6, 2019 at 12:00PM
It's not uncommon for newbies to leave Trap Door wondering what just hit them. Since founding the 45-seat Bucktown company over 25 years ago, Beata Pilch has specialized in "obscure" works by eastern European playwrights, many of them raucously absurdist and—at least initially, sometimes—emotionally and intellectually confounding.
Court Theatre
Under artistic director Charles Newell, Court Theatre is all over the place in the best possible way. Where else can you see both a rapturously well-done August Wilson epic and a mesmerizing one-man Iliad in the same season?
The Annoyance Runner-Up
Hamilton (ongoing at CIBC Theatre) Runner-Up
Second City’s She the People Runner-Up
Hamilton Runner-Up
Dawn Xiana Moon Runner-Up
Stefanie Johnsen Runner-Up
Maria Burnham Runner-Up
Foxie la Fleur Runner-Up
Lyric Opera of Chicago Runner-Up
West Side Story Runner-Up
Shannon Noll Runner-Up
Improvised Jane Austen Runner-Up
The Hideout Runner-Up
Second City Runner-Up
Joffrey Ballet Runner-Up
Joffrey Academy Runner-Up
Auditorium Theatre Runner-Up Harris Theater
Lucy Stoole Runner-Up
Hamburger Mary’s Chicago/Mary’s Attic Runner-Up
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