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…
Posts published in “Underground”
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: Chicago Scratch branding/Logo design: Preston Choi Editor’s Note: This is an expression by Zach Barr in response to Chicago Scratch’s clean, in the form of a list; it is…
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…
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…
Pictured above: Promotional photo for Corey Smith’s Essay on the Emil Bach House/Photo: Drew Angle Editor’s Note: If you would like to be featured in future Scapi upcoming monthly productions…
Pictured above: Dan Kerr-Hobert in Tedium by The Neo-Futurists/Photo: The Neo-Futurists For the last five years, The Chicago International Puppet Festival has sought to further Chicago’s rich puppet history, growing…
Pictured above: Kiayla Ryann and Jyreika Guest in In The Blood/Photo: Austin D. Oie Editor’s Note: This is an expression by Danielle Levsky in response to In the Blood; it…
Ann-Claude Rakotoniaina and Austyn Williamson in Bicycle Thieves/Photo: Willie Burton Editor’s Note: This is an expression by Felix Abidor in response to Bicycle Thieves by Littlebrain Theater as a part…