Across
1) Minds are read, cards appear and disappear, razors are swallowed— already more than a 1000 times as the year began
5) The reigning monarch? — or perhaps Steep Theatre Ensemble’s imagined cherry alter ego depicted in this 2019 Best Play Pick
7) It takes months of training with a physical therapist to learn how to move like this main character of this 2019 Best Play Pick
9) A ten-day 2019 Best Play Pick scouts out global talents at this yearly theater festival
10) This year was the third time hosting a festival of these characters from across the globe
11) Not Gustav, but the other musician/composer who, among other things. stars in a yearly Chicago Xmas classic
12) This Chicago theater— often with an anglophile bent— might be named for how you get a cuppa
15) Taxpayer identification number? Or, what a broken Xmas Tree ornament is made of
16) Though not a mime, this title character doesn’t utter a word
17) A theater named for a punctuation marriage
19) A word playwright Fouad Teymour uses in his title for this 2019 Best Play pick that suggests the sky’s the limit
22) Originators of a hit song that singing sheep danced to in a 2019 Best Play Pick
25) 2009 recognition for a 2019 Best Play Pick staged by Writers this year
26) Theater named for an escape hatch
27) Not Presley, Lewis or Perkins, but the other part of the titled Sam Phillips foursome
29) This 2019 Best Play Pick was inspired by visually impaired children
31) Three of this theater’s plays made it to the Picture This Post BEST PLAYS 2019 list— and one of those plays is all about a list
32) A 2019 Best Play Pick named for a solstice
33) This title character LOVED mathematical puzzles
34) The title role vermillion bird of this 2019 Best Play Pick
37) The actress who played this title role has the same name in real life
38) Chicago theater named for a bird, or a clock named for a bird
39) Chicago diva Donica walks in the footsteps of this Broadway legend, who originated the title role
41) Title character who, in other circumstances, is said to come in like a lion and go out like a lamb
42) Elvis or the Bard? This 2019 Best Play Pick keeps you laughing as you channel both simultaneously
43) Genre of this 2019 Best Play Pick produced by a theater that might be named for a type of circus act
44) The title character is often characterized a sly guy
45) This 2019 Best Play Pick has four
46) A play within a play 2019 Best Play Pick
Down
2) A bunch of bureaucrats depicting PTSD?
3) The original production of this 2019 Best Play Pick is credited with catapulting the theater that produced it —then and now— into national fame
4) The prize that most feminists agree the main character portrayed in this 2019 Best Play should have won
6) A little village or a bard creation?
8) We remember this performance at the start of EVERY Chicago play, when we are pointed to the exits
13) This 2019 Best Play Pick is NOT about oil, but rather the all too common painful path to prison
14) A 2019 Best Play Pick that shined a light on the refugee crisis in Africa
18) We first connect with this title character waving through a window
20) The theater— that staged three of this year’s Best Play Picks— might also be called a stand up guy
21) This year they told stories about a frozen graveyard, blubber makers, a red bird and a numbers guy
23) In this 2019 Best Play Pick a Black single mom living in Chicagoland winds up in anger management— while fielding the micro aggressions of her White peers
24) Seven books in seventy minutes— it’s magic!
26) The title role’s last last name
28) Something the factory workers in this 2019 Best Play Pick script by Lynn Nottage have in common
30) This year he helped tell Chicagoans a whale of a tale, and also of a storied walk to redemption
35) The title size of wisecracks about beasts in this 2019 Best Play Pick
36) You grab a bench here expecting to sweat as you watch an intensely dramatic moment in this 2019 Best Play pick about privilege, white skin and otherwise
38) A title word named for a medieval pilgrimage trail
39) They join puppets to create rituals of the bullfight, the funeral and the burning in a 2019 Best Play Pick
40) Not four, not five, not seven nor eight
42) The wild animal a young boy imagines himself to be in this disturbing 2019 Best Play Pick that introduces us to the idea of “un-adoption”