THREE TO SEE: This Week's Theater Recommendations
By Melody Udell in Arts & Entertainment on Aug 9, 2013 4:10PM
First Folio Theatre's The Rainmaker at Mayslake Peabody Estate. Photo by Melissa Carlson.
Deeply affecting shows set in the Depression era hit the stage this week in Chicago.
Kander and Ebb’s classic musical about love and restlessness in 1930s Berlin is coming to the stage at Light Opera Works. We think it’s time for a trip to Evanston.The show runs from Saturday, Aug. 10 through Sunday, Aug. 25.
Light Opera Works at the Cahn Auditorium, 600 Emerson St., Evanston, 847-920-5360 or online.
Based on a Pulitzer-winning novel, The Color Purple chronicles a young African American woman working to overcome adversity in the '30s-era rural Georgia. Bring the tissues. The show runs Wednesday, Aug. 14 through Sunday, Oct. 27.
Mercury Theater, 3745 N. Southport Ave., 773-325-1700 or online.
A single woman falls for a con man promising to bring rain to the Depression-hit, drought-plagued farm of the Curry family. Catch the play al fresco — it's staged outside at the Mayslake Peabody Estate. The show runs through Sunday, Sept. 1.
First Folio Theatre, Mayslake Peabody Estate, 1717 W. 31st St., Oak Brook, 630-986-8067 or online.