Noah Diaz's You Will Get Sick at Steppenwolf leans a little heavy on the whimsical metaphors, but the performances are stellar.| Chicago Reader
Black Ensemble Theater's latest musical tribute puts Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick, and Patti LaBelle front and center.| Chicago Reader
In Jean Claudio's Memorabilia with Teatro Vista, an aging clown and inventor tries to salvage his memories.| Chicago Reader
Court's one-man retelling of the Homeric epic returns for a fourth and final time—with a longer litany of human carnage.| Chicago Reader
An early innovator in motion pictures comes into focus in Factory Theater's The Curious Circumstances of Louis Le Prince.| Chicago Reader
Random acts of confusion and madness rule the roost at Second City e.t.c.'s 49th revuew, Chaos Theory of Everything.| Chicago Reader
She Who Dared centers the women behind the Montgomery bus boycott and the landmark case of Browder v. Gayle.| Chicago Reader
A soldier and an acting teacher collaborate to imitate a dictator in Six Men Dressed Like Joseph Stalin at A Red Orchid Theatre.| Chicago Reader
An aging vaudevillian and a young Black man find an unlikely connection in Charles Smith's Golden Leaf Ragtime Blues.| Chicago Reader
John Hildreth's adaptation for Lifeline gives H.G. Wells's sci-fi classic a contemporary gloss and a local setting.| Chicago Reader
Rehana Lew Mirza's Neighborhood Watch traces the growing paranoia of a white progressive living next to a Muslim family.| Chicago Reader
Matt & Ben imagines the bromance of Damon and Affleck right before Hollywood success (literally) falls in their laps.| Chicago Reader
The musical format lets the creators crack open Thompson’s twisted mind, but it’s the cast of Untitled Unauthorized that carries the tune.| Washington City Paper
The onetime Chicago experimental playwright's 2006 play, The End of Reality, finds a fitting home with Theatre Y.| Chicago Reader
Shay Youngblood's autobiographical story of a Black girl raised by her elders in the south returns to Pegasus Theatre Chicago.| Chicago Reader
Blank Theatre Company's revival of Sweet Charity honors the spirit of Bob Fosse and features a miraculous performance in the title role.| Chicago Reader
In Second City's latest mainstage revue, This Too Shall Slap, the politics stay offstage, but the angst is evident.| Chicago Reader
Gender Play, or What You Will at Steppenwolf is s a defiant and exuberant celebration of queerness and the Shakespearean canon.| Chicago Reader
E. Patrick Johnson's ethnographic Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women gets a stirring adaptation with Fleetwood-Jourdain.| Chicago Reader