The Home Theater Festival, which has just wrapped up its inaugural year in Chicago, consists of a two-week long series of gatherings in which a variety of art, music, and dance performances are staged in homes throughout the city.
Stage
Odd Man Out
by Emily Holland •
“The Misanthrope” kicks off a Molière Festival at Court Theatre.
Dance, Chance, and Possibility
by Katherine Jinyi Li •
At the start of Dance 4 Peace last Saturday, the spacious auditorium of the Gary Comer Youth Center, so usually bathed in light coming through its glass walls, went slowly dark in anticipation for the night’s first dance act.
You May Not Know What Happened
by Spencer Mcavoy •
According to the Electromagnetic Spectrum, the “host” of “The 7 Person Chair Pyramid High Wire Act,” the play is supposed to “cover some important basics: the Yeti, Charles Darwin, miracles versus non-miracles, lying, fact-checking, rope-making methods of Siberia, and flying mammals.”
Spectral Recitations
by Stephen Urchick •
“Spoon River Anthology” opens at Provision Theater, populating the stage with a pageant of unquiet spirits.
Puppets of the Abyss
by Bea Malsky •
With wife Lisa Krause, a professional puppeteer, Espey has transformed his graphic novel “Songs of the Abyss” into a grotesque puppet show he calls “Ishi’s Brain.”
In La Villita
by Maria Nelson •
Quiara Alegría Hudes’s story of Washington Heights, Manhattan could have been adapted into a musical about Chicago’s Southwest Side—and in a few small ways, it was.
Monologuing
by Stephen Urchick •
Solo Saturdays convenes at The Venue, a smallish auditorium space at 16th and Dearborn.
