Theater Awards 2016
ANOTHER YEAR’S WORTH of creative, collaborative and often innovative Chicago theater is under our belts. Recent offerings were marked by wildly ambitious projects at budget levels large and small, from Robert Falls and Seth Bockley’s sprawling stage adaptation of Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 at the Goodman to a bare-bones and balls-out reinvention of Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape at Oracle Theatre. The season was also notable for an increasingly open and necessary discourse about representation of minorities in casting, show selection and other aspects of shaping a Chicago season. We took in both the shows themselves and the conversations around them, and we’re back to present the second annual Time Out Chicago Theater Awards. Once again, we asked you to vote on our chosen nominees in 10 categories from shows that opened between June 1, 2015, and May 31. And once again, we’ve singled out a few special commendations of our own.
CRITIC’S PICKS BEST ONE-TWO PUNCH
Ike Holter for Sender (A Red Orchid Theatre) and Prowess (Jackalope Theatre) Possibly the most produced and most prolific Chicago playwright of his generation so far, Ike Holter hit a double whammy last spring with a concurrent pair of world premieres, both Chicago-set stories culminating on the same night. Sender’s hipster relationship antics and Prowess’s vigilante crime-fighting fantasy differed in tone but provided a real snapshot of young Chicagoans’ anxieties.
ACHIEVEMENT IN STICKING TO THOSE CHILDHOOD MUSIC LESSONS
Chicago’s impressive number of actor-instrumentalists It seems like you can’t go a week as a Chicago theatergoer without seeing an actor strap on a guitar or sit down at a piano or behind a drum kit. In the past season alone, cast members of the Hypocrites’ American Idiot, the House Theatre of Chicago’s The Revel, Strawdog Theatre Company’s Once in a Lifetime and Court Theatre’s One Man, Two Guvnors were among those accompanying themselves. In other locales, this kind of thing tends to be noted as a signature of a particular director’s style; in Chicago, it’s a signature of the city’s scene.
19 September–November 2016 Time Out Chicago
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