This multidisciplinary performing arts festival, hosted by the Pilsen area’s Blue Rider Theatre, runs through December 17, with shows most Fridays and Saturdays at 8 PM and Sundays at 7 PM, as well as children’s matinees on selected Saturdays and Sundays at 3 PM and the occasional late-night extra. Most evenings feature two or more artists, with intermissions between each act. Blue Rider Theatre, 1822 S. Halsted, 733-4668. Tickets: $10 a night except where noted in the listings below; $60 for a festival pass (good for all performances); some student and senior discounts available.
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The first of these two performance pieces is Dolores Wilber’s movement-based investigation of “the nature of work relationships.” The second is Jeffrey Dorchen’s one-man show about a Jewish folksinger’s unorthodox career. “Dorchen’s wicked monologue . . . is one bizarre ride–a fanciful, dark, perversely funny, strangely perspicuous, at times tasteless, vividly entertaining, beautifully paced tequila-influenced journey. . . . This is a great show despite its structural or philosophical difficulties,” says Reader critic Carmela Rago of this Theater for the Age of Gold presentation, billed as the show’s last Chicago performance. 8 PM.
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