Chicago Stage Review

3:00 a.m.: Slipping Beyond the Boundaries of a Bruised Mind

Jillian Erickson moved to Chicago 15 years ago with doing a solo show like this in mind. After spending many years as a Writer, Performer and Co-Producer/Director of Beast Women, she has experienced what feels to be a handful of very unique lifetimes worth revealing.  As a result, she has created this show.  3:00 a.m. is a menagerie of Jillian’s life over the past years:  from Colorado to Chicago from Ralph Machio to Religion  from Biological Clocks to A-ha.  3:00 a.m. is an interweaving of years gone by and the smorgasbord of segments that have steered her towards her current path.  It’s time to strap yourself in, and hold on tight. This show is, after all, one of the many rides of her life! 

Presented by Beast Women Productions and Prop Thtr

Fridays and Saturdays, 8:00 p.m.

 June 7 - 29, 2013

@ Prop Thtr

3502 N. Elston, Chicago

Show Type: Performance Art

Tickets – 3:00 a.m.: Slipping Beyond the Boundaries of a Bruised Mind

BEAST WOMEN 2013 SPRING SERIES

ARTIST’S TALK: Film BURNT ORANGES and excerpts from Chicago Opera Theater’s MARÍA DE BUENOS AIRES

In collaboration with the Chicago Opera Theater (COT) and the office of the Consulate of Argentina in Chicago, USA, the Instituto Cervantes brings you – Burnt Oranges the film screening, reception, and Q&A with director Silvia Malagrino. The evening will also include live excerpts from COT’s upcoming production of María de Buenos Aires.

Burnt Oranges (Naranjas Quemadas) is an award-winning, poetic documentary by Chicago filmmaker Silvia Malagrino in collaboration with writer Monica Flores Correa and editor Sharon Karp. The film examines the long-term effects and repercussions of Argentina’s 1970′s state terrorism through a combination of intimate witness narration, interviews, documentary, and re-created footage. The film is a personal and artistic portrayal of a country’s struggles to confront its painful past, and a reminder of the global necessity to defend human rights and democratic values.

Director: Silvia Malagrino
Writer: Monica Flores Correa
Editor: Sharon Karp
Country of Production: USA
Year: 2005
Length: 90 minutes
Language: Spanish and English with English subtitles

The film is a personal and artistic portrayal of a country’s struggles to confront its painful past.

Tuesday, April 9, 2013
     Reception @ 6:00 pm
     Screening @ 7:00 pm

@ Instituto Cervantes

31 W. Ohio St., Chicago.

Tickets are FREE (Suggested donation $10).  Reservations  are recommended.

TICKETS — ARTIST’S TALK: BURNT ORANGES

Instituto Cervantes — film screening ::Burnt Oranges

Chicago Opera Theater — Viewpoints: Burnt Oranges, a Screening with Silvia Malagrino

The Word Progress on My Mother’s Lips Doesn’t Ring True

Guest Hungarian/Romanian director Istvan K. Szabo captures the signature comic/tragic surrealism of Matei Visniec’s The Word Progress on My Mother’s Lips Doesn’t Ring True. Winner of the “Best Play in the Off-section” at the Avignon Festival in 2009″ this remarkable remount delves into the pits of refugee psyche, a metaphysical space where one continuously runs from a place with nothing left, to a place with nothing to offer.

Catch this transcendent masterpiece before it takes off for it’s European Tour!

Read the 4 STAR review here: The Word Progress on My Mother’s Lips Doesn’t Ring True – REVIEW – Chicago Stage Review

Apr 4 – Apr 13, 2013

@ Trap Door Theatre

1655 W. Cortland, Chicago

Show Type: Drama/Performance Art

Box Office: 773-384-0494

Trap Door Theatre

Maria/Stuart

Everything was going fine, before the shape shifter showed up. Grandma Ruthie’s three tolerably dysfunctional daughters were throwing her a birthday party (including unbalanced Sylvia, with her terrifying hook hands). The kids were coming too, and nobody planned on mentioning the family’s horrific secrets. But now there’s soda and cheese puffs spilled everywhere and a mysterious pink letter is circulating around the kitchen. What happens when it’s opened is just the tip of the iceberg in the Chicago premiere of Jason Grote’s dark comedy, as supernatural forces conspire to bring everyone to the brink of confronting the pasts they’ve kept so carefully buried.

Presented by Sideshow Theatre Company

Through May 5, 2013

@ Theater Wit

1229 W Belmont Ave, Chicago

Show Type: Dark Comedy

Box Office: 773-975-8150

Maria/Stuart ~ Sideshow Theatre Company

Barnum

The greatest show on earth is the setting for the life story of Phineas Taylor Barnum. Celebrating its Chicago professional premiere, BARNUM sets this colorful personality inside the center ring of his own circus. Audiences will be thrilled with high flying acrobatics as BARNUM tells the story of America’s greatest showman. This show bursts with toe tapping melodies; ballads, marches, and ragtime tunes by Cy Coleman and Michael Stewart.

Through June 16, 2013

@ Mercury Theater

3745 N. Southport Ave, Chicago

Show Type: Musical

Box Office: 773-325-1700

Barnum - Mercury Theater Chicago

Catch Me If You Can

Based on the hit DreamWorks film and the incredible true story that inspired it, CATCH ME IF YOU CAN is the high-flying, splashy new Broadway musical that tells the story of Frank W. Abagnale, Jr., a teenager who runs away from home in search of the glamorous life. With nothing more than his boyish charm, a big imagination and millions of dollars in forged checks, Frank successfully poses as a pilot, a doctor and a lawyer – living the high life and winning the girl of his dreams. But when Frank’s lies catch the attention of FBI agent Carl Hanratty, Carl chases Frank to the end…and finds something he never expected.

Apr 2 – Apr 14, 2013

@ Cadillac Palace Theatre

151 W. Randolph, Chicago

Show Type: Musical

Box Office: 800-745-2000

Chicago - Catch Me If You Can - 2013 Tickets – Broadway in Chicago

Underneath the Lintel

The play focuses on a Dutch librarian who opens a book returned 113 years overdue and finds a ticket for a Chinese laundry in London. Her curiosity compels her to redeem the ticket for a pair of abandoned trousers, which contain another clue that leads her on an adventurous journey around the world and into surprising revelations of a long-forgotten past, where she ultimately discovers what can only be described as a miracle.

Thru Apr 28, 2013

@ First Folio Theatre

1717 W. 31st S,t Oak Brook

Show Type: Comedy/Drama

Box Office: 630-986-8067

First Folio Theatre ~ Underneath the Lintel

A Piece of My Heart

ARFTCo is proud to present a revival of their successful 2004 production of Shirley Lauro’s A Piece of My Heart, a moving and deeply felt portrayal of six women who served in Vietnam, and the profound changes that service wrought in their lives, and in our country. Taken from the true stories of military nurses, Red Cross workers, and USO performers and the men they served with and cared for; this work is as timely now as when it premiered in 1991. More veterans will be returning home from service this year than have since WWII, and A Reasonable Facsimile Theatre Company is proud to present this beautiful and true production in their honor.

Presented by A Reasonable Facsimile Theatre Company 

Mar 29 – Apr 28, 2013

@ Cornservatory

4210 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago

Show Type: Drama

Box Office: 773-650-1331

APOMH – A Reasonable Facsimile Theatre Company 

Beautiful Broken

Paul and Bridgette like each other. So do Matt and Julie. But it’s never that simple, is it? There’s the personal baggage, the crossed signals, the walls and defenses and ghosts of the past that continue to haunt us. Set against the backdrop of Chicago’s vibrant storefront theater scene, Beautiful Broken is a romantic dramedy about relationships, family, the obstacles we create in attaining connection, and whether we can ever really fix what’s broken.

Presented by Broken Nose Theatre 

Previews: Mar 23 – Mar 28, 2013

Regular Run: Mar 29 – Apr 21, 2013

@ Greenhouse Theater Center

2257 N Lincoln Avenue, Chicago

Show Type: Comedy/Drama

Box Office: 773-404-7336

Beautiful Broken