Child’s play it’s not.
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It’s hard to say which sounds tougher—battling Lex Luthor to save the Midwest’s high-speed rail system or acting out said battle on a three-by-seven-foot platform sans set or props. Chicago’s own Theater Un-Speak-Able takes on the latter task in Superman 2050 (Wed 5/2-Sun 5/6, various times, Josephine Louis Theater, Northwestern University, 20 Arts Circle Dr., Evanston).
“Gentle,” “mischievous,” and “funny” aren’t the first adjectives people associate with King Lear. But they’ve been used to describe Nearly Lear (Thu 5/3-Sat 5/12, various days and times, Josephine Louis Theater), in which Toronto-based actor Susanna Hamnett presents Shakespeare’s tragedy from the perspective of the foolish king’s fool.
5/2-5/12: check with the Chicago Humanities Festival for the performance schedule, 312-494-9509, chicagohumanities.org, $5-$11 in advance, $7-$13 at the door.
