This post will be the 400th on the site. It’s a departure from format, in that I’m pulling from a facebook post I wrote earlier today, and posting it as…
Posts published in “Impressions”
Pictured above: Lottie a la West in Hardcore Paramours: A Burlesque and Music Extravaganza/Photo: John Blair Photography Growing up, I was a very quiet and extremely introverted person. I didn’t feel…
Pictured above: Promotional image for L’Heure Bleue or The Blue Hour/Art: Gannon Reedy Incisive and melancholy, the poems of writer Elisa Gabbert’s book L’Heure Bleue or the Judy Poems explore the…
Pictured above: Wheelchair Accessibility Icon/Photo: MabelAmber I read the email over and over again. Tears formed in my eyes as the words of rejection echoed in my head—I really wanted that…
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: Intimacy Director Siobhan Richardson (left) works with cast of Serenity Wild at the Frank Theatre Company/Photo: Blaize Thomas This is the first installment in a series entitled “Building…
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…