Pictured above: Comedian Whitney Wasson produces the sober showcase Serenity Now!/Photo: Loren Egeland Today, artists are more open about their process of recovery. Marc Maron has helped demystify the shame…
Posts published in “Underground”
Pictured above: Cardinal Borghese (Taylor C. Brewerton) and Bruno (Felix Abidor)/Photo: Patrick Engman Editor’s Note: This is an expression by Aliza Feder in response to Infinity Burns in the form…
Scapi Magazine’s monthly column about the history of experimental history in Chicago has a name! Makers and Breakers features 500 Clown in this installment by Scapi contributor Felix Abidor. Through a decade of clowning and physical innovation, 500 Clown has left a performance legacy that has endured long after the group’s dissolution.
Pictured above: Photo: Force Majeur Editor’s Note: Scapi Magazine contributor Estelle Rosenfeld is writing a column series about starting a theater career, as well as tips and wisdom for resume…
Pictured above: (Left to right) Ryan Walters and Crosby Sandoval in The Neo-Futurists and The Ruffians’ 2018 production of Burning Bluebeard/Photo: Evan Hanover Editor’s Note: This is an expression by…
Pictured above: A still from Transparent Bodies, an Opera Butoh Lab performance occurring on January 11/Photo: Opera Butoh Lab Editor’s Note: If you would like to be featured in future…
Pictured above: You and Me Against the World! performing in Generation LatinX/Photo: Daniel Moreno Editor’s Note: This is an expression by Olivia Sieck in response to Generation LatinX in a…
Bros do Prose is a creative team composed of founding members Ella Raymont, Christian Libonati, and Omen Sade. Their mission: to create epic works of physical theater with two actors.
Pictured above: Photo of Molly Hewitt performing at Vogds’ music video release party/Photo: Greg Stephen Reigh Molly Hewitt is Glamhag is… well, there’s no one else quite like them. Recently…
Pictured above: Kennedy Baldwin, Cameron Herdt, and Colin Rourke of Howl House in Small Fish Big Pond/Photo: Vince Pinto Editor’s Note: This is an expression by Olivia Sieck in response…
Pictured above: Emilie Modaff in Boy, Bye at Judy’s Beat Lounge/Photo: Stephanie Mateja Possibly the most rewarding aspect of being an underground arts journalist is the complexity of the art—the type,…
Pictured above: Tommy Spears and Adam Tatum in Highstreet and Mook’s Dresden Follies/Photo: Katie Ruppert Editor’s Note: This is an expression by Olivia Sieck in response to Highstreet and Mook…