KT Hawbaker, Chicago Reader

KT Hawbaker

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Chicago, IL, United States

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Past articles by KT:

Feminist fable

A new play about Ruth Bader Ginsburg celebrates the late jurist, but erases her complications. → Read More

Not a drag: The Golden Girls find a new home

Hell in a Handbag moves its long-running franchise parody/homage into the Leather Archives & Museum. → Read More

You can follow me @frida_kahlo

Are blockbuster art shows alienating people who just want to look at art? → Read More

#iPlan2Live takes over TikTok

Kale Williams initiates an online movement celebrating Black softness and purpose. → Read More

Remote recovery

My name is KT, and I'm an alcoholic. As I write this lil article, I am officially 107 days sober after an arduous, sweaty—and, admittedly, sometimes fun—struggle with booze. As I write this, I am also keenly aware of how the stay-at-home order would have been my dream scenario 108 days ago. Isolation? TV binges? Wine delivery? I'd be dead. And, for that, I am genuinely grateful for sobriety, as… → Read More

Why are all our friends watching The Sopranos?

Two millennial pop-culture enthusiasts talk about watching the iconic show for the very first time. → Read More

Haven hands us an extra-tense Titus Andronicus

Complicating gender and racial identity adds texture to the gory Shakespearean stew. → Read More

Art critic Lori Waxman wants to support your artists visa

The 60 wrd/min project aims to keep overseas creatives in the U.S. → Read More

A young banker gets sucked into a moral abyss in Labyrinth

Broken Nose examines the high-stakes world of global finance. → Read More

A police killing takes us through mental jujitsu in Sheepdog

Kevin Artigue's fraught story is one helluva play for Shattered Globe. → Read More

Countess Dracula gives a Black warrior woman spin on Bram Stoker

A little more defiance of the genre would give this Otherworld Theatre show more bite. → Read More

Born to run

How I ran away from my failing body and straight into the Chicago Marathon. → Read More

Cross-dressers and gay men meet at Harvey Fierstein's Casa Valentina

A gender-bending Catskills resort in 1962 takes center stage at Pride Films & Plays → Read More

Out of Love traces the rocky path of the lifespan of a friendship

Elinor Cook's drama gets a gritty and tender U.S. premiere from Interrobang Theatre Project. → Read More

The video game’s the thing in Super Richard World III

Otherworld Theatre’s Stupid Shakespeare Company makes a low-budget, high-laugh debut. → Read More

Leftovers takes on Bill Cosby and his legacy

Unfortunately, this Something Marvelous production takes on more than it can handle. → Read More

Desire in a Tinier House is a poetic queer love story—despite the shirtless-boy marketing

It envisions a queer domestic space we don't normally see onstage. → Read More

Essential reading for Pride Month

Five memoirs that made me the pansexual freak I am today → Read More

Storefront Theater Musical is a bad-faith disaster

It commits the great satirical sin of punching down. → Read More

The Secret of the Biological Clock follows a scattershot conceptual recipe

While it's clearly a labor of love, the proliferation of hooks and lack of commitment make for a underbaked confection. → Read More