WINDY
CITY
MEDIA
GROUP
THEATER Elizabeth Rex
-
Playwright: Timothy Findley At: Oak Park Festival Theatre at Austin Gardens, 167 Forest Ave., Oak Park. Phone: 847-; $15-$35. Runs through July 21
Who knew ...
About Face Youth Theatre Ensemble to debut '20/20'
- The About Face Youth Theatre Ensemble is celebrating its 20th anniversary with the world premiere of 20/20—a dive into recent queer history devised and performed ...
Family Equality Council holds LGBTQ reproductive options panel discussion
- Family Equality Council held an "LGBTQ+ Paths to Pregnancy: Using Donor Sperm to Build Your Family" panel discussion June 12 at Women & Children First. ...
WORLD Conversion therapy, Bermuda march, trans officer, Belgium ban
- Germany plans to ban all conversion therapies under a new law to be introduced this year by German Health Minister Jens Spahn, PinkNews noted. It's ...
DINING Pride events, Beatnik on the River, crawfish boil
- —For Pride Month, Big Gay Ice Cream is teaming with pastry chef Leigh Omilinsky—this time from her new home, Cold Storage, 1000 W. Fulton Market, ...
SHOWBIZ Sandra Bernhard, 'Love, Simon,' Taylor Swift, Tiffany Haddish
- Sandra Bernhard recently sat with Tim Teeman over at the Daily Beast—and made it clear she was done being asked about former best friend Madonna, ...
NATIONAL San Jose LGBTQ Center vandalized, rainbow-flag items, Ricky Martin
- In California, a San Jose LGBTQ center was vandalized—and rather than being a random incident, it is believed the center may have been targeted, KRON4.com ...
BOOKS ON STONEWALL Indecent Advances, The Stonewall Riots, Out in Time
-
Indecent Advances
By James Polchin $26; Counterpoint Press; 256 pages
The Stonewall Riots
Edited by Marc Stein $35; New York University Press; 341 pages ...
Five Worth Finding: Pride, Carol's Cookies, Kimpton Gray and more
- —The Queeriodic Table: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Culture: Harriet Dyer's book ( a take on the periodic table, of course ) contains a glossary on ...
MOVIES '5B' revisits first AIDS ward in Calif. hospital
- The powerful new documentary 5B is about a group of caregivers opening the first AIDS ward at San Francisco General Hospital in the '80s. Through ...
Headlines continue after advertisement...
WTTW hosts screening of 'The Lavender Scare'
- During the Cold War era, fear and hatred of communism was extended to those who might be seen as susceptible to blackmail, including gays who ...
Terence Alan Smith: The real 'MS. BLAKK'
- Terence Alan Smith, the Detroit native behind the drag persona Joan Jett Blakk, is still taken aback that a portion of his life has been ...
CAKE Chicago shows diversity in comics
- CAKE ( the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo ) took place at Center on Halsted, 3656 N. Halsted Ave., on June 1-2. According to its website, ...
FILM ANALYSIS Rewatching Stonewall at the movies
- Early in gay director Nigel Finch's 1995 sort-of docudrama Stonewall, the drag queen La Miranda ( Guillermo Diaz ), who's one of the central characters, ...
THEATER REVIEW Prophet$
-
Playwright: Anthony Tournis At: Factory Theater, 1623 W. Howard St. Tickets: TheFactoryTheater.com or 866-811-4111; $25. Runs through: July 22
Protestant Christianity's individualistic approach to its ...
THEATER REVIEW Emma
-
Author: novel by Jane Austen, stage adaptation by Phil Timberlake At: Lifeline Theatre Company, 6912 N. Glenwood Ave. Tickets: lifelinetheatre.com or 773-761-4477; $20-$40. Runs through: ...
THEATER SPOTLIGHT Free Street Theater to do 50 plays in all 50 wards
- On Sunday June 23, Free Street Theater will mark its 50th anniversary—very few Chicago theaters are older—by performing a play in every Chicago ward in ...
Critics' Picks
- La Havana Madrid, Teatro Vista @ The Den, extended through 30 June—Last two weeks to see this thrice-remounted musical about Chicago's Latinx history, presented in ...
MUSIC LeAnn Rimes goes from 'Blue' to a rainbow
- Singer LeAnn Rimes career took off at the tender age of 13 years old with a Bill Mack song called "Blue." After reaching number one ...
THEATER REVIEW Saving the World
-
Author: Marc Kelly Smith ( libretto ), Diana Lawrence ( music ) At: Chicago Tap Theatre at Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont Ave. Tickets: 773-327-5252; ...
THEATER 'Hedwig' director talks compassion, gender and music
- Since its off-Broadway premiere, Hedwig and the Angry Inch has garnered a film adaptation, four Tony Awards and a substantial following. Initially, Toma Tavares Langston ...
Aging with HIV focus of Reunion Project event
- The Reunion Project 2.0—Chicago hosted a two day event focused on people aging with HIV June 14-15 at Loyola University's Water Tower Campus. The day-long ...
Details for 'Dance for Life' set
- Dance for Life—which mobilizes Chicago's dance community by raising funds through dance—announced updated program information for its annual benefit performance, taking place Saturday, Aug. 17, ...
'Drag Seed' cast announced
- Hell in a Handbag Productionshas announced casting for its world premiere of The Drag Seed—an unauthorized parody of the 1956 psychological horror-thriller film The Bad ...
Teens competing at Jimmy Awards
- Illinois High School Musical Theatre Awards' Marguerite Reed and Jacob Simon will be among 86 students being celebrated at the 11th Annual Jimmy Awards, honoring ...
Interrobang marks 10th season
- Interrobang Theatre Project announced its 10th anniversary season—"No Man's Land," exploring the fear and anxiety that accompany journeys into the unknown, and the courage it ...
Gay Holocaust film being shown June 20
- The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, 9603 Woods Dr., Skokie, will show the documentary Dear Fredy on Thursday, June 20, 6:30-8 p.m. The movie ...
Chicago PrideFest set for June 22-23
- The weekend before the 2019 Chicago Pride Parade makes its way through Boystown, the Chicago PrideFest will start the celebration. Chicago PrideFest will take place ...
CONCERT REVIEWS X and The Damned, Gogol Bordello, Bettye Lavette and more
- If the concert scene in Chicago this past May was characterized by gloom, dampness and a scarcity of choices, the shows in June can be ...
30 Under 30 Awards to be held June 26
- Windy City Times will again mark Pride Month with its annual 30 Under 30 Awards. The ceremony will take pace Wed, June 26. As in ...
Load more Headlines
