Pictured above: Comic Trible Trible/Photo: Sarah Larson As I ascended the staircase up to Mary’s Attic in Andersonville, I was met by founder and co-producer of Strip Joker, Brittany Meyer.…
Posts published in “Theater”
Pictured above: Production photo from Water on the Bridge/Photo: Lia Kohl If you’ve never been to Eckhart Pool, located right off the Chicago Blue Line, it’s a huge space. The…
Pictured above: Nancy Casas in Remember the Alamo/Photo: Evan Hanover It’s presentation day at the Neo-Futurist School for Wild Productivity, and today’s topic: the Alamo. No, wait… historical dioramas. Sorry,…
Jessie McCarty/Photo: Jessie McCarty Jessie McCarty and I met in matching blue outfits. We were here to talk about their work at The Runaways Lab Theater and their new play…
Pictured above: Melissa DuPrey, Coya Paz and Katrina Dion/Photo: Joe Mazza, Brave Lux Melissa DuPrey, Chicago-based multi-disciplinary artist, performer, and activist, has been awarded a major grant from the National…
Pictured above: Catherine Miller/Photo: MB Stanton The stamina it takes to audition is striking. Actors play a numbers game, rinsing and repeating monologues around the city, baring themselves whole in…
Pictured above: Choose Your Mar Adventure Host Mar Curran and guest during CYMA: Novembutts 2018/Photo: jdoyelphotography Editor’s Note: If you would like to be featured in this recurring list of…
Pictured above: Jesus Hilario Reyes’ performance in ECLIPSING Festival/Photo: Ally Almore As it happened, my conversation with Amina Ross and Madison Smith, the two primary organizers of the second annual…
Pictured above: Marcela Torres/Photo: Jesse Meredith Alongside sex, violence occupies a singularly controversial position in art. Nearly every art critic of the 20th century, from Antonin Artaud to Susan Sontag,…
Pictured above: (l to r) Rory Zacher, Rob Frankel, Stephanie Mattos, and Myesha-Tiara in Swamp Baby/Photo: Shepsu Aakhu Lauren “LL” Lundy has only been with Chicago theatre mainstay MPAACT since…
Pictured above: Promotional photo for Corey Smith’s Essay on the Emil Bach House/Photo: Drew Angle Editor’s Note: If you would like to be featured in future Scapi upcoming monthly productions…
Pictured above: Dan Kerr-Hobert in Tedium by The Neo-Futurists/Photo: The Neo-Futurists For the last five years, The Chicago International Puppet Festival has sought to further Chicago’s rich puppet history, growing…