Review: Tour De Friends Part Deux Parties at Salt Shed with Atmosphere, NOFUN! and HEBL
Last Friday The Salt Shed campus was abuzz with all the goings on. The new Goose Island Brewpub was open and had a line out the door that was only […]
Review: A Slow-Paced but Beautifully Poignant Evil Does Not Exist Explores a Small Community’s Connection to Nature
Following his 2021 Oscar-winning Drive My Car, writer/director Ryusuke Hamaguchi (whose also excellent Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy was released stateside the same year) takes a more oblique but no less potent and […]
Review: I Saw the TV Glow Blends a Stark Visual Style with a Compelling, Creepy Teenage Story
Under its super-charged surface story of an obsessed young fan of a TV show, I Saw the TV Glow has a great deal going on, including the story of an identity transformation […]
Review: Watching the Writer’s Mind Work, Write Cut Rewrite: The Cutting Room Floor of Modern Literature, by Dirk Van Hulle and Mark Nixon
Everyone, I suppose, has a sense of the what-if of history. What if Abraham Lincoln hadn’t gone to Ford’s Theater that night and avoided assassination? What if I had taken a […]
Preview: LudoNarraCon brings Immersive Indie Narrative Games to the Forefront in This Weekend’s Festival
It’s con and festival season and while some fests require proper attire, accommodations, and a good amount of water so you don’t pass out, others simply require you to kick […]
Interview: A Red Orchid Theatre Takes on a Werewolf Story of Love and Isolation. We Discuss Turret with Playwright Levi Holloway and Actor Lawrence Grimm
A Red Orchid Theatre’s newest production Turret is a world premiere written and directed by Levi Holloway, whose recent works have included a Broadway run of his play Grey House, […]
Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 5/9 and Beyond
It’s Mother’s Day weekend! Whether you’re completely ready for the grand day or need some ideas for things to do to celebrate, we have you covered. There are so many […]
Review: An Explosive World Premiere Tells a Little-Known Milwaukee Story of Anti-Immigrant Hostility
A world premiere by Martin Zimmerman chronicles one of Milwaukee’s least-known historical events: the 1917 bombing of a police department and the subsequent indictment of imprisoned Italian immigrants who were […]
Review: A Dazzling Debut—The Divorcées, by Rowan Beaird
No-fault divorces are currently legal in every US state, making it relatively easy to end an unhappy marriage. It may be hard to imagine how recently “irreconcilable differences” were not […]
Review: Carma Lynn Park and Scottie Kersta-Wilson—Catching a Glimpse With a New Perspective
The current exhibition at the Austin-Irving Library is Glimpses that features photographs by Carma Lynn Park and Scottie Kersta-Wilson. Although they each have a different approach in their art, together […]
Review: Christina Ramberg’s Female Torso Imagery at the Art Institute Reminds Us of the Glory Days of the Chicago Imagists
Christina Ramberg, a Chicago artist who devoted many of her paintings to images of the female torso, cinched in and bulging out of feminine undergarments, is celebrated in a new Art […]
Review: Third Coast Percussion and Jessie Montgomery Give a Moving Performance
Third Coast Percussion gave another wonderful performance at DePaul’s Gannon Auditorium on Friday night. The program included several works that have appeared on recent TCP releases. Highlights, however, were provided […]