Theatre in Chicago: Lighting the Way to 2020: Online Plays for the Holidays
Back in March, many artists were gloomily predicting the end of theater in Chicago, but YOU weren't one of them—were you? After all, if London playhouses could survive being closed for eighteen years (1642-1660), why should we complain after only ten months? Hasn't art always found a way to thrive in even the most adverse conditions?
This—uh, unusual holiday season of 2020 is no exception. Ushering out a year perplexed by natural elements in rebellion are a veritable cornucopia of plays—some streaming, some zooming, even a few employing twentieth-century "wireless" technology, as well as some pre-recorded, some performed live in real time, some as standalone events and some as segments in series—all of them designed to acknowledge our uneasiness, but also invoke the promise of recovery on the horizon.
Eleanor's Very Merry Christmas Wish-The Musical, an Eleanor Management Production, through December 27. The heroine of Denise McGowan Tracy's book may be a humble rag doll, content in her happy North Pole home, but like all brave toys, she longs to see the world. Video streaming at www.eleanorswish.com