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…
Posts published in “Underground”
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: Cast and Crew for EPIC Tales from the Land of the Melanin/Photo: Olivia Sieck Editor’s Note: This is an expression by Olivia Sieck in response to EPIC Tales from…
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: Jillian Leff, Chicago performer and playwright. She is also a company member and marketing director for The Cuckoo’s Theater Project/Photo:Tyler Core DIY Quotes from DIY Folx is…
Pictured above: Art for Reality is an Activity by Theater Oobleck/Graphic Design: Morgan Krehibiel Editor’s Note: Editor’s Note: This is an expression by Wendy Schmidt in response to Theater Oobleck’s Reality…
Pictured above: Tarina Bradshaw as Cyn and Alicia Jade as Nat/Photo: Travyon C. Printis/TCPhotography Editor’s Note: This is an expression by Felix Abidor in response to “Throat Punch” from Nothing Without…
Pictured above: Schantelle Alonzo (center) and other ensemble members of Albany Park Theater Project in Ofrenda/ Photo: Liz Lauren Editor’s Note: This is an expression in response to Ofrenda in the…
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: 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: Yumiko Yoshioka in 100 Light Years of Solitude/Photo: Edgar Gutierrez Calvillo Editor’s Note: This is an expression in response to 100 Light Years of Solitude in a poetic form by…