Bites: What Theater Artist Mitchell Bisschop Eats in a Day
He may currently live in Los Angeles but Mitchell Bisschop grew up in Chicago and recently returned for the run of his one man show, Royko: The Toughest Man in […]
Review: Three Sisters Converge Around Their Dying Father in His Three Daughters, a Moving, Tense Family Drama
The things that bring family together, when simply being related isn’t enough of a reason to do so—this is the running theme of writer/director Azarel Jacobs’ (Terri, The Lovers, French […]
Review: Gwydion Theatre’s This Is Our Youth Portrays a Slice of 1982 Manhattan Life…in Existential Crisis
Kenneth Lonergan’s This Is Our Youth takes us back 40-some years … to an era when heavy-duty drugs were not only a path to pleasure (and sometimes pain) but the coinage of […]
Review: Tim Burton Returns to Weird in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, a Creative and Nostalgic Sequel
Filmmaker Tim Burton has garnered a reputation as a visionary and for being quite odd, and there’s nothing out there that says the two can’t be contained in a single […]
Chicago Is Lit: Printers Row Lit Fest and More September Events
Avid book lovers can be a solitary bunch—after all, it’s hard to lug our stacks (and stacks) of books around a party. But that is exactly what’s about to go […]
Essay: Film Adaptation of It Ends With Us Broaches a Serious Topic Without Making It Weird
This post was written by Tory Crowley. It Ends With Us doesn’t market itself as a sad, serious drama addressing the complexities of intimate partner violence. I mean, who would […]
Review: Merchant Ivory Chronicles the Professional and Personal Lives of Legendary Filmmaking Duo
Few filmmakers merged the personal and professional as gracefully as producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory. Their partnership ushered in the Golden Age of art-house cinema in the mid-1980s, […]
Review: Casey Affleck Stars in Slingshot, a Space Drama That Puts a Trio of Astronauts on an Uncertain Mission
While this new Casey Affleck-starring work, Slingshot, is set up like a science-fiction story, in reality it’s a tense acting exercise couched in a psychological thriller. The whole thing is […]
On the Road: We Review Five Broadway Shows—& Juliet, Hell’s Kitchen, Job, Suffs, Once Upon a Mattress
It has been a hot summer in New York, in more ways than one. On Broadway, 24 shows continue to draw large crowds, with several musicals and plays reaching near-capacity […]
Review: (Title of Show) at Pride Arts Will Get Creative Juices Flowing
(Title of Show) is a based-on-real-life meta-comedy cataloging the painful and often random creative process. Written by Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell in just three weeks, the musical tells the […]
Feature: The Kendall College Dining Room—Chicago’s Fine Dining Secret
The Kendall College Dining Room may not be a Michelin-starred restaurant but the quality of its food and service definitely deserves some stars. The Dining Room is a living classroom […]
Evanston Folk Festival Is Ready to Impress at Dawes Park
When Evanston’s Space Presents is putting on a show, you need to listen. Whether it’s the amazing ambiance of Space, or their diverse offerings at Out of Space and Winnetka […]