When asked the question “What is love?” there seems to be no better or more fitting response than the call back, “Baby don’t hurt me… NO MORE!” (Thank you, Haddaway.)…
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Over the week, there have been waves of backlash at The Metropolitan Opera’s newest season announcement. A recent Washington Post made the rounds, taking to task the institution’s insistence on an…
Sitting in a dimly lit, abrasively loud bar in Andersonville, I ask Kelley Sheehan and Jonathan Hannau, members of the Plucky Plunkers duo, how they met. They say: “Rehab.” “Group…
Pictured above: Trent Dozier and John Schnorrenberg in “The Arts”/Photo: Knowlton Haaland Photography After their performance, I sat down with Dozier and Schnorrenberg to discuss their weekly variety show “The…
Back in June 2017, Scapi Magazine sat down with Pamela Torrey and Matthew Peckham of the Chicago Vocal Arts Consortium to talk about their production of Little Women. CVAC is…
Pictured above: Heather Jencks and Silvita Diaz in Nanay/Photo: Giau Minh Truong/Design: Lani T. Montreal When Lani Montreal speaks, she is at once educator, mother, cancer survivor, playwright and DIY theater…
We sit down with comic Ashley Ray to talk about adding randoms on facebook, Astrology roasting, balancing marketing expertise and DIY aesthetics, being unapologetically genuine in an age of “#blackwomanmagic”…
Pictured above: Denise Yvette Serna/Photo: Juli Del Prete We’re introducing a new, bi-monthly segment into our theater section at Scapi, in which we ask DIY theater artists and creatives around…
It’s Questionable Internet Opinions! Josh is here to talk about Imposter Syndrome, what has AGMA done for me lately, the call for coalitions in Chicago’s Opera Community (shout the fuck…
After a suspiscious interaction with a berserk man and a scientist, Sparafucile, Leonora and The Governess try to infiltrate the lair of the Queen of the Night. Once they get there,…
Pictured above: Peter Wilde, Johnny Garcia, Alec Phan, Rachel Shapiro and Melanie Vitaterna in YIZKOR/Photo: Cassandra Kendall “Liep âne leit mac niht gesîn.” (“No one loves without some pain.”) The…
Pictured above: Julie Williams and Kelly Anchors in The Near Future & That Sort of Thing/Photo: Jeffrey Bivens Now approaching the end of its fourth week of performances, the 29th…