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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Ruth Page Center for the Arts was a full house Sunday for an opening weekend performance of The Year I Didn’t Go to School: A Homemade Circus. The audience […]
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’. […]
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 […]
As usual, Chicago’s more than 200 theaters—both Equity and non-Equity—provided a magical wealth of productions for theatergoers and theater critics alike. Third Coast Review’s Stages writers reviewed more than 200 […]
Nobuyuki Hanabusa stepped on to the stage dressed all in black like a beat poet and slipped behind a small rig that looked like a DJ booth. On it were […]
Cirque du Soleil’s touring show Toruk landed in Chicago this week and will be here until this Sunday, August 7, running two shows daily at United Center. Toruk is a […]
Stacey Magiera is a gymnast turned circus artist who shows her incredible versatility by playing three different characters in Cirque du Soleil’s new show Toruk, which is coming to United […]
You like theater and you think Physical Festival Chicago might be something for you and your friends, but you’re not sure how to prepare for it. Will you need to […]
The eight graduates of the Actors Gymnasium’s first circus training program might have been keyed up about their showcase performance, but the audience wouldn’t have known it because their training […]