Four Ways to Prep for Physical Festival
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 […]
CST Stages Mash-up of Shakespeare’s Bellicose History in Tug of War: Foreign Fire
Song montage of “Once I Was a Soldier” by Tim Buckley and Larry Beckett. Photo by Liz Lauren. From the get-go in Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s limited run, six-hour marathon mash-up Tug […]
Ascend—Actors Gymnasium Circus Training Program Showcase Takes Off
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 […]
Cirque de la Symphonie opens Chicago Philharmonic Residency @ Harris Theater
Five classical circus performers visited the Chicago Philharmonic this past Saturday night to ring in the orchestra’s new tenure at Harris Theater. The performances blended the music of Rimsky-Korsakov and […]
Irish Theatre’s Spinning Portrays Tragedy in a Seaside Village
The struggles of single parenthood and the dread of losing a child cause the worlds of Conor (Dan Waller) and Susan (Jodi Kingsley) to spin out of control in the tense […]
The Body of an American at Stage Left Theatre: Two Men Haunted by the Ghosts of War
The Body of an American at Stage Left Theatre is a fact-based play haunted by visions of war and the ghosts that lurk in its shadows. Canadian war reporter/photographer Paul […]
Haymarket: The Anarchist’s Songbook: Talented Crew of Actors/Musicians Tells Tragic Chicago Story
[soliloquy id=”4686″] Photos by Evan Hanover. Haymarket: The Anarchist’s Songbook takes us on a visit to a tragic but inspiring moment in Chicago history and does it with a bang-up […]
Stomping Grounds Series Closes This Weekend
The second annual Stomping Grounds series, a celebration of Chicago’s percussive dance community, comes to a close this weekend with the last of six performances. The series, presented by Chicago […]
Not Entirely Enchanted by Broadway in Chicago’s Disenchanted
What happens after the fairytale ends and the slender beauty runs off with the prince she met moments before the wedding? Naturally, it’s worse than what the magic mirror predicted. […]
Schoolhouse Rock Live!: Where History and Grammar Rules Converge
Seeing that Schoolhouse Rock Live! was currently playing in Chicago, I instantly wanted in on this nostalgic musical journey. Though the show at the Apollo Theater in partnership with Emerald […]
A Tree Falls in About Face’s The Secretaries, & Everyone Hears It
There are few things in life that I am comfortable in saying make complete sense: the science behind the salty-sweetness of a chocolate-covered pretzel, the inevitable success of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s […]
Neo-Futurists’ Mike Mother Filters Family Secrets Via Fiction and Memoir
Squeaky-voiced Neo-Futurist Jessica Anne (no last name for a reason to be revealed) has created and performs a provoking mash-up of memoir and performance art, a solo show, with two […]