Your Curated Chicago Weekend: 6/2-6/5
The Beach Boys couldn’t wait for June in “Surfin’ USA” all those years ago. Suffice it to say, they’ve returned to their happy place. And so have we, as it’s […]
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 […]
Soundset 2016: Chicago takes the hip-hop fest by storm
[soliloquy id=”5022″] Guest Author Emily Ornberg is a music geek from Minnesota who loves making magazines and drawing pictures of Elvis Presley. You can find her moshing at hip-hop […]
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 […]
3CR’s Guide to a Better June
Stages Hubbard Street + Second City Present The Art of Falling June 9-19 @ Harris Theatre for Music and Dance, 205 E Randolph St Don’t miss this encore performance of an […]
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 […]
Faade at Quenchers Saloon: Let me hear my meaning
Logan Square’s Quenchers Saloon was packed Friday night when Faade headlined the evening for their very first live performance as a group. Kaleidoscope images trickled through the room from behind […]
Celebrate 20 Years of Joan of Arc at Elastic Arts
[soliloquy id=”4959″] Joan of Arc is one of those bands cemented into the history of Chicago’s music scene. Formed after the demise of Capn’ Jazz (another Chicago music staple), […]
The Chicago Review of Terrible Books Presents: Orgy Tips from 1969
I have been a terrible book reviewer, in both ways that can be taken. I meant well, oh I did. I even have a cadre of shit-lit lined up, […]
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 […]
Wiener: Fascinating View of the Modern Political Landscape
WEINER “Same Old Schlong & Dance,” “Weiner’s Second Coming,” “Weiner Pull Out,” “Weiner’s Rise & Fall,” “Tip of the Weiner,” “Weiner Exposed,” “Weiner: I’ll Stick It Out.” These are examples […]