Author: Kevin Curran
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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What Would You Do?
Blonde Poison – Agency Theatre Collective
In World War II Berlin, a Jewish woman named Stella Kubler collobarated with the Nazis to help find other Jews in hiding, in exchange for her family’s safety. With blonde hair and blue eyes, she could pass for German. Stella, called ‘blonde poison’ by the Gestapo, is the focus of a new play by Cindy Henkin, presented by The Agency Theatre Collective.
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Trial by Jury
Bloody Bathory – The Barrens Theatre Company
In the early 1600s, in an isolated castle in the forests of Hungary, Countess Elizabeth Bathory is reputed to have murdered literally hundreds of her servant girls for the purposes of bathing in the blood of virgins to maintain her youth and beauty. It sounds like a story made up to scare children, but there was a real Countess and she was really convicted for countless murders, and bricked up in a room in her castle and left to die. Of course, the murder accusation may have been a plot cooked up by the monarchy to take her castle from her and eliminate a huge debt it owed to her family, but details, details, right?
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