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…
Posts published in “Impressions”
On November 20th, 2018 Scapi Magazine sat down with Nire Nah and Alex Palma to talk about Everything Stands Back Up, knowing your artistry, building a multi-layered platform, and elitism.…
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: Actors rehearsing on a stage/Photo: Ruca Souza A friend of mine came into Chicago from out of town and asked me what plays were running while they were…
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: Capture from Jen Kutner’s The Other/Photo: Micki Harris What does it mean to be in a relationship with technology? Her literalized this on screen, but the artists in…
photo by Jaysin Trevino Today, the Chicago Tribune published a hit piece on Mayoral Candidate Amara Enyia citing her personal financial issues in a way that was only objective in that it didn’t…
Pictured above: Bruch Thomas Reed and Benjamin Sprunger in About Face Theatre’s Chicago premiere of Dada Woof Papa Hot/Photo: Michael Brosilow About Face Theatre’s Dada Woof Papa Hot by Peter…