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Goodman Theatre's streaming-in-real-time Live series continues with Ohio State Murders, directed by Tiffany Nichole Greene (Hamilton National Tour)—the second of three productions. Obie Award-winning playwright Adrienne Kennedy.

12:00 AM DISROBED - THE VIRTUAL EVENT - The Covid masks are finally coming off - and so is everything else! The Hollywood Fringe Festival comedy hit "Disrobed: Why So Clothes Minded?" returns online in a new encore Zoom presentation with an all new national cast, more outrageous and more naked than ever, and for one weekend only, May 20-23. Its "Meet the Parents" - with Nudists! Only one online "ticket" is required for each household or device, and the show may be viewed at any time on demand d...

What holds "The Sound Inside" together is the urgency that the live feed gives it. Throughout, it rests on the undercurrent of tension that invariably accompanies live shows playing live and in real time.

Historic Downtown Long Grove Business Association All about chocolate Long Grove’s annual homage to the cocoa bean returns with “For the Love of Chocolate.” The event May 14-16 may be on a smaller scale to comply with COVID-19 health and safety guidelines but it won’t skimp on everything chocolate. Included are food vendors, live entertainment and kid’s activities. Opening night includes an artist hand carving a sculpture of Frank Sinatra while singer Tony Ocean performs. Advance onl...

For a solid year, the ghost light on the stage of the Goodman Theatre has shone in lonely silence on a classroom at the Aburi Girls’ Secondary School, the set for Jocelyn Bioh’s “School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play,” nipped in the bud last spring. “Just a wonderful play,” said Robert Falls, the artistic director of the Goodman. “We were in previews, and the audience was loving it. We were three days from opening.” Opinion I called Falls because I was wondering, with va...

Bechdel Fest 8 Broken Nose Theatre presents Bechdel Fest 8: Realign, a festival of short plays featuring femme, female-identifying, nonbinary, transgender and queer actors playing characters who talk about subjects other than men. The festival references the Bechdel-Wallace Test created by cartoonist Alison Bechdel that asks whether an entertainment work features at least two non-male identifying characters in conversation about something other than a man. "Many of the immensely talented artist...

New mobile resource bringing services to Americas amputee community and last updated 2021-01-20 16:13:56-05 It’s hard to keep Robert Falls off his feet, despite injury or amputation. “I want to live as long as I possibly can,” he said. After dealing with diabetes for years, Falls recently had his right leg removed below the knee, making him one of the two million Americans who are dealing with life after amputation. After the operation, Falls was learning to get around well on hi...

Local theater proves resilient, resourceful in year defined by pandemic, civil unrest First Folio Theatre was among the theaters that streamed previous productions in the wake of the COVID-19-related shutdowns. The Oak Brook theater streamed its 2013 premiere of "Cymbeline: A Folk Tale With Music" featuring Ryan Czerwonko, left, Kate McDermott (kneeling), Ronald Keaton and Tyler Rich. Courtesy of David Rice   Posted12/25/2020 6:00 AM During a year defined by a global pandemic and...