Pictured above: Alexandra Bassiakou Shaw (foreground), Panda Landa, Kelsey Oliver and Kirk Lynn in rehearsal for Rude Mechs’ Not Every Mountain at the Off Center in Austin/Photo: Bret Brookshire Festival curator…
Posts published in “Theater”
Pictured above: A scene from Walkabout Theater Company’s Monuments: a free outdoor stilt phenomenon, which will run from June 1-July 8/Graphic: Walkabout Theater Company Our DIY theater and performance recommendations for…
From left to right: Ryan Cashman, Laurel Zoff Pelton and Jordan Wilson in Striking Out: A Gay Baseball Musical at the Annoyance Theatre/Photo: Jeremy Kanne When Glenn Burke signed with…
Pictured above: Tia Pinson as Maggie/Photo: Steve Bryant If you live in Chicago, you might seldom find yourself pondering: why? Why do you live in Chicago? And that begs the question:…
Pictured above: The Nest/Capture: Google Maps Playwright and actor Jillian Leff seems like your run-of-the-mill audience member whenever you encounter her at a theater event or show. She usually has a…
Pictured above: Capture from Ordinary Peepholes/Photo: Glitter Guts After the success of his production #thegrelleyduvallshow, Alex Grelle has been exploring and discovering new mediums within the Chicago DIY performing scene. When…
Pictured above: Jameson Wentworth, Liz Chidester, Elena Romanowski, Britain Gebhardt, Amy Stricker & Lizzie Schwarzrock in “High Fidelity” by Refuge Theatre Project/Photo: Zeke Dolezalek Anyone who visited the Windy City Café…
Pictured above: Performers rehearsing for Art in Response/Photo: Anna Gelman On April 23, I talked with Sara Maslanka, the artistic director of Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble (CDE), and Natasha Mijares, a curator…
Pictured above: Links Hall Bridge Dance Feastival Promotional Poster/Graphic: Links Hall Our DIY theater recommendations for the month of May: Bridge Dance Festival Links Hall at 3111 North Western Through the…
Pictured above: Jerwin Gabriel Santiago (left) and Christian Borkey (right) being interviewed/Photo: Amy Do Many think of comedy as a coping mechanism. That somehow, it is a way to deflect from…
Pictured above: Ariana Silvan-Grau and Gabriel Levine in Josephine the Mouse Singer (2018)/Photo: Eric L. Kirkes The announcement that American Theatre Company (ATC) would be shuttering profoundly affected the work that…
Pictured above: Addison Heimann and Hannah Welever/Photo: Greg Stephen Reigh Kappa Force is described by director Hannah Welever as “a campy super-hero web series about 5 sorority crime fighters trying…