Opulent lifestyles, unbridled passion, and endless joy…all the while a thread of darkness and deceit lurks underneath. Such is the tale of Leo Tolstoy’s 1878 novel masterpiece, Anna Karenina, adapted into a ballet, […]
If you’ve been around the performing arts scene in Chicago enough, you might have heard tales of a bellydancing Wookiee. We certainly had, and found ourselves mesmerized by the fun and talent […]
The bottom line is this: if you find yourself in any seat at the Joffrey’s production of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, it is a good seat. Being in the room for this annual holiday […]
It’s been about a week since the sixth annual Chicago Nerd Comedy Festival. In its sixth year at Stage 773, this festival has always been an intimate favorite, truer to the nature […]
Tana Karo started Acrobatica Infiniti, billed as the world’s first “nerd circus” back in the era of Gaper’s Block. It was 2015, and “nerd culture” was on the rise, as was the attention to […]
It’s time once again to buckle up for three days of nerdy performance fun at Stage 773 tonight as the sixth annual Chicago Nerd Comedy Festival begins. This year’s lineup has […]
The midsummer night’s dream that choreographer Alexander Ekman and artistic director Ashley Wheater are alluding to in this contemporary ballet is not the Shakespearean comedy of marriage and interwoven plots, but rather […]
Oprah is a leitmotif in the multimedia movement narrative Poor People’s TV Room, at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art from April 12-15. United States Artist Fellow Okwui Okpokwasili and director-designer Peter Born have […]
Thirty years into choreographing for his company Doug Varone and Dancers, Doug Varone believes he has become somewhat of a pointillist. He said looking back, his early choreography resembled the work of […]
There is no ballet so ingrained in the public consciousness as Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. Even those who profess no interest in the art form have likely seen a performance, and […]
Fifty years ago, the Auditorium Theatre reopened after a 26-year hiatus as a performing arts space. In celebration of that first show reintroducing the building as a place for the arts—a performance […]
Polaris, a new contemporary pole dance company, debuted at Chicago’s Den Theatre in Wicker Park on Wednesday night with their show Poleitico. Billed as “a contemporary pole show focusing on important social […]
