Author: Kevin Curran
Infinite Possibilities
Constellations — Theater Above the Law
Constellations, a play by British playwright Nick Payne that first premiered in 2012, is about two people in a relationship. Or not. The play cycles through dozens of glimpses into the life of the couple, some overlapping, some contradictory. The same moment, such as the first time they meet or the last fight they have, is portrayed multiple times subtly shifting the tone or even the outcome.
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Thank You for Being a (Socially Distanced) Friend
The Golden Girls: The Lost Episodes, Vol. 4 – LOCKDOWN! – Hell in a Handbag
David Cerda’s long-running loving but acid parody of The Golden Girls is back, and like us, the ladies are in lockdown. Set in 1992, the specific disease and the means everyone is using to communicate from quarantine are different (and hand-waved away with classic sitcom ease), but the effects are much the same, and the girls are cracking under the pressure and beginning to take it out on each other.
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Something You Don’t Know
Here Lies Henry – Interrobang Theatre
Henry enters an empty stage alone and addresses the audience. His task to tell the audience something they don’t know. Over the course of the night, he’ll tell you a lot of things, about life and love and loss. Some of them might even be true.
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It’s All Fun and Games
Adaptation – Theatre Above the Law
Theatre Above the Law is opening its fourth season with a revival of Elaine May’s Adaptation, a play that sets the choices and compromises we all have to make over the course of our lives as a brightly colored, chaotic game show.
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6th Annual Chicago Musical Theatre Festival
Chicago Musical Theatre Festival – Underscore Theatre
The Chicago Musical Theatre Festival returns to Underscore Theatre for the sixth year with a slate of eight shows, with stories ranging from time travel to Moby Dick.
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The Only Certainty in Life
Death Tax – Red Twist Theatre
Maxine is the resident of a nursing home and her health is declining. She believes that her daughter, in order to avoid a looming increase on the estate tax, is paying her nurse to speed up the process, so she offers her a deal: a cut of her substantial estate if she lives to the new year. The nurse, Tina, an immigrant and single mother facing her own family problems, reluctantly accepts. This sets off a chain reaction, the end result of which none of them can predict.
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Don Giovanni Returns to the Lyric
Don Giovanni – Lyric Opera of Chicago
The classic opera, last performed at the Lyric in their 2014/15 season, returns to Chicago this fall.
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Free Skate
Rink Life – Lucky Plush Productions
With a name like Rink Life, you’d be forgiven for expecting the show to include roller skates and an upbeat pop soundtrack. When the first pair shuffles onto the floor at Steppenwolf’s 1700 Theatre barefoot and providing their own accompaniment a capella, you may also be forgiven for wondering what you’ve gotten yourself into. But in stripping away those obvious trappings, Lucky Plush’s new show manages to focus on what really matters and the result is a lovely evening that combines the joy of movement and the quiet importance of connection.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Three Stories Up – Theatre in the Dark
On a rainy afternoon in Vancouver, a local transit police officer comes home to find her husband, also a police officer, murdered. For reasons she can’t understand, the police department wants to dismiss it as a suicide. She starts down a dangerous path to her husband’s last case and the network of criminal informants he worked with. Many plays have tackled the noir mystery, but non in quite the way that Theatre in the Dark does. This show is staged in pitch black darkness.
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A Curious Volume of Forgotten Lore
Poe – Theatre Above the Law
Theatre Above the Law is celebrating Halloween by re-staging it’s adaptation of several Poe tales, set in a macabre cabaret.
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