Review | “The Ruse of Medusa” at Facility Theatre
Facility Theatre’s gorgeous, weird, and wonderful production of Erik Satie’s surrealist comedic THE RUSE OF MEDUSA is well worth a trip to Wicker Park.
Review: BEWILDERED at Hell in a Handbag Productions
Hell in a Handbag Productions catapults into its 15th Anniversary season with the premiere of BEWILDERED.
The 44th Annual Non-Equity Jeff Award Winners
The full list of winners of the 2017 Non-Equity Jeff Awards
David Cerda to Receive Special Jeff Award
More than 200 members of the Chicago theater community signed a recommendation that the 2017 Non-Equity Special Jeff Award be given to David Cerda — the co-founder and Artistic Director of Hell in a Handbag Productions — for his theatrical and charitable contributions.
Review: LADY X: THE MUSICAL at Hell in a Handbag Productions
Hell in a Handbag Productions begins its 15th season with a bang. LADY X: THE MUSICAL is a campy noir musical. Coupled with a few cocktails, it is the perfect antidote to escape this dumpster fire world.
In PSYCHONAUT LIBRARIANS Imagination Will Set You Free
Narnia. Oz. And now, the Anyverse. In The New Colony’s premiere production, “Psychonaut Librarians,” we are brought to another world that is beyond our dreams. And in reality, we are brought to a show that is beyond our imagination.
DIVINE SISTER is Divine at Hell in a Handbag
Chicago theater boasts no shortage of pop cultural parody shows, but Hell in a Handbag’s production of THE DIVINE SISTER rises above this description. In the grand camp tradition, playwright Charles Busch’s witty and raunchy send-up celebrates the peculiar fascination Hollywood held with nuns in the 1960s. And what better subjects could there be for female impersonation? Cloisters of chaste, devout, dramatic, beautiful characters ripe for fictional scandal. Busch’s script takes advantage of every nun cliche in the canon—visions from God, desperate campaigns to build a new school for the children (the children!) and of course, sexual liaisons between the sisters.