Pictured above: Alexandra Bassiakou Shaw (foreground), Panda Landa, Kelsey Oliver and Kirk Lynn in rehearsal for Rude Mechs’ Not Every Mountain at the Off Center in Austin/Photo: Bret Brookshire Festival curator…
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Pictured above: A scene from Walkabout Theater Company’s Monuments: a free outdoor stilt phenomenon, which will run from June 1-July 8/Graphic: Walkabout Theater Company Our DIY theater and performance recommendations for…
From left to right: Ryan Cashman, Laurel Zoff Pelton and Jordan Wilson in Striking Out: A Gay Baseball Musical at the Annoyance Theatre/Photo: Jeremy Kanne When Glenn Burke signed with…
Pictured above: Tia Pinson as Maggie/Photo: Steve Bryant If you live in Chicago, you might seldom find yourself pondering: why? Why do you live in Chicago? And that begs the question:…
Pictured above: The first Not In Our House Meeting/Photo: Sally Blood This is the second installment in a four-part series entitled “Building Consent Culture,” which defines and explores Consent Culture as…
Pictured above: The band members of the Barback Daddies, from left to right: Jules (Maggie Ward), Donna (Mary Kate Young), Keel (Electra Tremulis) and Ghost (Alec Phan)/Photo: Matthew Gregory Hollis Editor’s…
Photo by Quinn Dombrowski For those not following police funding in Chicago, there has been a push by local activists against a proposed police academy in Garfield Park. This year’s 4th…
Pictured above: Kri Van Sloun in Danielle Levsky’s bathtub just before being interviewed by Levsky/Photo: Danielle Levsky CW: Mentions of alcoholism, addiction, abusive relationships, anxiety Kri Van Sloun came over…
Wacky Wednesday is back! Each Thursday, we select a group of DIY theater artists, performers and creatives in Chicago and ask them a question completely unrelated to theater or performance.…
Danielle Levsky’s in the captain’s seat for this interview with Almanya Narula about Chicago Theatre Now, the Accountability Edition, a zine covering theater issues relevant to performers in Chicago. We talk…
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…
We sit down with Carina Shero, fat activist extraordinaire, co-founder of Femme FATales, to talk about the recent Documentary GRRRL Beauty is the Beast, willingness to be a spokesperson, the…