Eleanor Friedberger Bringing a New View to Empty Bottle
It’s been quite a while since The Fiery Furnaces released an album, but that hasn’t slowed down Eleanor Friedberger’s musical output. Since she and her brother Mathew put the project […]
The Flick at Steppenwolf: Reel Love Becomes Real Life in a Rundown Movie Theater
Annie Baker’s Pulitzer-winning script for The Flick, newly opened at Steppenwolf Theatre, gives us a chance to get to know three people, underpaid workers in a movie theater in Worcester […]
All the World’s a Stage is Emotional and Entertaining
It’s difficult to turn your life– and your pain– into art. Too often it ends up being therapy– good for you, but not necessarily good for the audience. But All […]
Pop Waits: It’s Punk Raucous Mixed with Melancholy
Pop Waits, the Neo-Futurists’ new production, directed by Halena Kays, is a punk rock operetta with some sweet and sad moments. Created by Malic White and Molly Brennan, Pop […]
Refuge Theatre Project’s High Fidelity Reclaims a Chicago Classic
Refuge Theatre Project, the no frills, contemporary music theater group that brought you Next Thing You Know and Glory Days in 2015, is starting off 2016 with a run of High […]
Indie Writers Host Reading at Women & Children First
Every Thursday night a group of writers meets in various locations on the south side of Chicago. They call themselves the “Indie City Writers.” Being a part of the club […]
Experience Asian Street Food Without a Plane Ticket
February here can be exceptionally brutal, so why not leave Chicago for a sultry, jungle-inspired sanctuary without splashing out for a plane ticket? Chef Won Kim, winner of Food Network’s […]
Porchlight’s “Far From Heaven” Takes Their Musical Theater Fare Shaken, Not Stoic
How do you take a cloyingly overused plot line and make it feel less decayed, more relevant, and, above all, interesting? That’s what Porchlight Music Theatre’s Far From Heaven attempts […]
Eclectic Full Contact Theatre’s Overworked Shape of Things
The first time I saw Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things was at my small Midwestern liberal arts college, the same setting as the play itself. Afterwards, my friends and […]
R.O.W.E. Week 6: To One of the Boys I Loved Before
I’m Brianna Kratz, a Chicago poet and literature enthusiast. In 2016, I’m reading only women authors for my Read Only Women Experiment (R.O.W.E.). For weekly updates on challenges, conversations, and […]
Deadpool, Zoolander 2, Where to Invade Next, In the Shadow of Women
DEADPOOL The fact that this movie even exists seems to be the result of sheer will power. Not to get lost in the history of the project, but some of […]
Beyond the Book Club: Chicago Authored Spotlights Local Lit
He has a book club. She has a book club. Here a book club, there a book club, everywhere a book club! This is only a slight exaggeration, as Chicago […]