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The RefrAction Lab Showcase 2022 is a view inside five brand new plays by a selected cohort of thrilling Chicago-based playwrights. Each play was created as part of Refracted Theatre Company's eight month new work lab and was generated by looking at a divisive issue through the lens of a question. From there, these five playwrights worked to ...
Sep 25, 2024 · View the latest BroadwayWorld reviews and roundups of critics for the best of shows and theatre in Chicago. Review: AN ACT OF GOD at Copley Theatre, Aurora IL by Tina St. Angelo Wetzel - October ...
Oct 3, 2024 · See what all the critics had to say and see all the ratings for Chicago including the New York Times and more... Theatre: Ambassador Theatre (Broadway), 219 W. 49th St. CRITICS RATING: 9.50 ...
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Announcing the first Chicago-based production of Heidi Schreck’s Tony Award-nominated Pulitzer Prize finalist!
FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD HEIDI EARNED HER COLLEGE TUITIONby winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In this hilarious, hopeful, and guttingly human debate-meets-play, she resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the relationship between four generations of women—all while grappling with the founding document that, for better and worse, shapes their lives. What the Constitution Means to Me is a “slyly crafted piece of persuasion and a tangible contribution to the chan...
A hysterical and jaw-dropping inside look at the underbelly of politics through the lens of two of the undeniable founders of “fake news.”
IT IS 1934,and famous novelist Upton Sinclair is all but guaranteed to become the first Democratic governor of the state of California—until a young, unknown pair of consultants from the shadows of the challenger’s campaign attempt to take him down. As Frank Merriam and Sinclair battle it out in the spotlight—seeking endorsements from the likes of Charlie Chaplin and FDR—Leone Baxter and Clem Whitaker work behind-the-scenes to methodically construct one of the most spectacular, unbelievable,...
A cutting yet humorous behind-the-curtain drama that examines pervasive racial dynamics within the American theatre and the tolls of superficial representation on stage.
ACCLAIMED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES as “a rich, unsettling play that lives up to its title [and] lingers in one’s memory long after its conclusion.” At a Broadway theater in New York City in the mid-1950s, a group of actors has gathered for their first day rehearsing a new play called Chaos in Belleville, an anti-lynching Southern drama. But as the cast rehearses, tensions flare between Wiletta, the Black actress in the starring role, and her white director about his interpretation of the play. W...
Set on the night in 1940 that Hattie McDaniel made history at the Oscars, a story of dreamers striving to overcome considerable obstacles and fighting for recognition amidst the racism and inequity...
IT IS FEBRUARY 29, 1940, the night of the Academy Awards in Hollywood, California. Bartender Arthur Brooks, an ambitious Black man from rural Alabama, dreams of becoming a movie director. His best friend, Dottie Hudson, is a maid at the Ambassador Hotel who finds herself to be a cynic of all dreams. But when the actress Hattie McDaniel stops in at the bar and decides not to attend the biggest event in show business, Arthur and Dottie must do everything in their power to convince her to go and...
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Mar 30, 2022 · Marc Vitali | March 30, 2022 8:30 pm. Chicago theater is in full bloom for the spring season with a number of new productions and a return of some classic favorites. Hedy Weiss, theater critic for WTTW News, joined “Chicago Tonight” to share her must-see recommendations. The productions range from a mesmorizing turn from television star and ...
Oct 12, 2022 · In addition to writing new plays, Saracho founded and ran a theater company, Teatro Luna in Chicago. She now works in TV full-time. She created the show Vida for the Starz network, and has written ...
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Mar 22, 2022 · Sean Hayes as Oscar Levant in “Good Night, Oscar” at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. For fans of the likes of Mel Brooks, with whom Levant had plenty in common, this thing will come as a great ...
