Friday, June 30, is the time to get your gothic on for a good cause, and for a night of entertainment. Collaboraction Theatre Company is hosting Darkest Before Dawn: A Dark Circus […]
Darkest Before Dawn: A Dark Circus of Music, Theater and Fashion
Kim Campbell
Actors Gymnasium Graduates a New Class of Performers with Passages
Every year, Actors Gymnasium has some well-anticipated shows and this year’s Professional Circus Training Program Showcase entitled Passages was no exception. After a year of long hours and hard work in the […]
Chicago’s Fourth Annual Physical Theater Festival Runs June 2-10
Physical Fest is back and full of interesting program surprises as usual. There is a modernist fable titled Memory of Dust, a peak in to the life of the Confetti Maker, a […]
Wild Chicago Explored by Mike MacDonald
In his coffee table book, My Journey Into the Wilds of Chicago, Mike MacDonald, photographer and author, explores one of his greatest passions, the natural world all around Chicagoland. Mike shows every […]
Cavalia’s Odysseo Transports Us with Mythology
When a show’s slogan is ‘The Best Show Ever’ I take it as a personal invitation to test that theory with as much skepticism as possible. Still, I went to see Cavalia’s […]
Circus 1903 The Golden Age of Circus Revisited
Strolling in to the Oriental Theatre on opening night in Chicago one could get the feeling that the golden age of circus never ended and they might be right. The house was […]
Best of Bri-Ko Gets Physical
The Best of Bri-Ko, playing every Thursday night at Stage 773, lives up to its name. Clowns Brian Posen, Tim Soszko and Brian Peterlin put their energies together to silently answer age-old […]
Magic is Bedazzling with The Illusionists
Seven magical dudes calling themselves the Illusionists have descended in a cloud of laser-augmented smoke upon Chicago this week at the Oriental Theatre, and their show is spectacular, of course. In some […]
The Actors Gymnasium’s Quest Seeks Answers to the Big Questions
A quest is defined by Webster’s dictionary as ‘a search, pursuit, investigation or inquest.’ But it’s also described as ‘a chivalrous enterprise in medieval romance, usually involving an adventurous journey’. Leslie Buxbaum […]
This Week at Harris Theater: SEA–Interview with Director Streb
I interviewed director Elizabeth Streb about her upcoming show SEA (Singular Extreme Actions) at Harris Theater. Streb’s work as a choreographer is groundbreaking (sometimes literally). I asked her what distinguishes her dance […]
Meet the Puppet Master of the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival
The 2nd annual Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival is about to be unleashed upon Chicago just in time to distract us from the deep freeze of winter. Playing at multiple venues January […]
Mr. and Mrs. Pennyworth Keeps Fairy Tales Alive at Lookingglass Theatre
Mr. & Mrs. Pennyworth have an important task—to keep fairy tales alive. And Odin, like any good marketing executive, has outsourced the job to them. This family-friendly show is a vaguely Dickensian […]
