For those that don’t know, besides writing and editing for Scapi I’ve also in the past done my fair share of audio and video recording for both musicians and outside…
Posts tagged as “DIY”
Pictured above: Actors during UrbanTheater Company’s production of Runaways (2007)/Photo: Anthony Aicardi Editor’s Note: This is the fourth installment of Makers and Breakers, Scapi Magazine’s regularly occurring column about the…
Pictured above: Cast of May the Road Rise Up with playwright O’Neill/Photo: Factory Theater Are you a DIY theater/performance artist who likes to answer questions about the craft? Email taylor.imel@loop.colum.edu…
Pictured above: Rehearsal of May the Road Rise Up at Facotry Theater/Photo: Michael Courier Are you a DIY theater/performance artist who likes to answer strange and random questions? Email taylor.imel@loop.colum.edu…
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…
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…
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: Free Street Theater’s Youth Ensemble and Company/Photo: Provided by Free Street Theater Though Free Street Theater has been rooted in Chicago for nearly 50 years, their programs and…
Pictured above: Frank Okay on the set of Earth Motel/Photo: Courtesy of Frank Okay “Art Director, Touring Musician, Creative Director, Toy Store Manager, Sr. Design Consultant, Illustrator, Talk Show Host,…
Pictured above: Christopher Sylvie, Karen Fort, Zoë Pike and Lyle Mays in Last Days of the Commune by Bertolt Brecht, performed in 2017 at Prop Thtr/Photo: Provided by Prop Thtr…
Capture from the 2018 International Chicago Underground Queer Transcendance Symposium (ICUQTS)/Photo: Colectivo Multipolar A cubist dance floor. Hybrid-genre, meaning many points of entry—a collision course of queer and trans music,…
Pictured above: Sara Zalek/Photo: Noa/h Fields Performing at Cafe Mustache on a late Friday night variety bill, Sara Zalek was lustrous—literally: her skin was painted gold. Her 20-minute Butoh-influenced performance piece,…