Theatre Oobleck’s Closed Casket: Baudelaire’s Final Act
It is no small undertaking to decide to adapt Charles Baudelaire’s seminal 19th century volume of poetry, Les fleurs du mal. Some may find its sheer length and poetic complexity daunting, […]
It is no small undertaking to decide to adapt Charles Baudelaire’s seminal 19th century volume of poetry, Les fleurs du mal. Some may find its sheer length and poetic complexity daunting, […]
The play opens with a symphony of switchboard operators, those 1920s-era office workers who kept people talking by plugging phones into jacks, greeting and connecting the world outside with the […]
This weekend marks the 26th annual Dance for Life Chicago, a celebration of dance and fundraiser for the AIDS Foundation of Chicago and The Dancers’ Fund. While difficult to compete […]
[soliloquy id=”16591″] When I was first introduced to Marika Hackman, she was gently strumming an acoustic guitar in the middle of the Lincoln Hall stage, performing a beautiful opening […]
Walking into The MID, I felt like I was back in college, just down the street from my old stomping grounds, University of Illinois at Chicago. I once enjoyed night […]
Lawbreakers is a fast-paced first-person shooter that has a casual relationship with gravity. It may be Boss Key Production’s first game, but director Cliff Bleszinski is no stranger to shooters. […]
[soliloquy id=”16498″] There’s a festival for everything in Chicago, and August boasts some of summer’s biggest. This past weekend alone you could have attended Chicago Hot Dog Fest, the […]
Last year, to celebrate their 25th anniversary, Lollapalooza extended their festival weekend to four days. Because this was so wildly successful, Lollapalooza kept the extra long weekend for 2017 and […]
The first day of Lollapalooza had a lot of snags; Liam Gallagher walked off stage after 15 minutes, both Lorde and Muse had to cancel their sets due to weather, […]
[soliloquy id=”16433″] Friday marked the beginning of the Chicago Hot Dog Fest. And though some clouds threatened when the festival first kicked off at Stockton and LaSalle near the Chicago […]
We are a week away from the solar eclipse! Before every one drops what they’re doing to experience that cosmic beauty, you have a full week of fun events ahead […]
First, it was quiet. Like a street in the early hours before a parade. A feeling of ceremony hung in the air, underscored by the seats still being set up […]