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…
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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…
Photo by Molly Adams at the Defend DACA March in LA On March 29, 2018 Daniel and Maureen sat down with Laura Mendoza, from the Resurrection Project, and Denise Yvette…
Pictured above: (Left) Director Sarah Patin, (Center) Jose Nateras, (Right) Rick Rapp/Photo: Jo JB Schaffer Chicago always feels like it is working in juxtaposition with itself. Like it’s moving on two…
Featured above: Kyle Lovett, Wanda Jin and Kenya Ann Hall in a promotional Cornerstone image/Photo: Matthew Gregory Hollis Stepping into the mall at 900 North Michigan Avenue is a very specific…
Pictured above: Anita Silvert and Vinny Greco in “Coffee Against Capitalism” at Factory Theater/Photo: Vanessa Buholzer Photography When Rachel Silvert first moved to Chicago, she knew very few people within…
Pictured above: “Disco Pigs” poster/Graphic: Anna White Walking through Earphoria, one encounters Christmas lights, walls covered in murals of alien landscapes, monstrous junk-sculptures and piles of music equipment and ephemera…