Ah, Riot Fest. The last huge festival of the year took place this past weekend and it was the affair you’d expect it to be: amazing bands dazzling a crowded […]

As we left the Chopin Theatre Friday night, after an appropriately spooky and decidedly well-sung performance of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street presented by Kokandy Productions, I […]

I’ve been a little WWI obsessed for the last few years. It was a terrible, bloody conflict where soldiers had to fight under unfathomable hardships. I know capturing trench-style warfare in […]

Right out of the gate, I will say that the term ‘gothic’ certainly fits the story and the actions of the characters in Southern Gothic. Windy City Playhouse’s remount of […]

I’m a sucker for management games, and I’ve been waiting for the locally developed Onsen Master since I first saw it at (where and how long ago?). I was super […]

It’s a well-worn cliché to call a film a “slow burn,” but clichés got that way for a reason, and films like God’s Country prove why. Directed by Julian Higgins […]

Leaving the theater after seeing this wise and hysterically funny play, my first thought was, I would like to see this produced in Florida, where the governor and legislature have […]

Guest article by Shaela Johnston. YAKZ, aka David Mitori, is a dubstep producer currently living in Las Vegas, who has made a huge name for himself within underground dubstep scene. […]

Joseph Kesselring’s 1941 Arsenic and Old Lace is a familiar property, frequently revived and indelibly captured on film in Frank Capra’s 1944 movie starring Cary Grant. Its popularity is well […]

There’s realism, there’s surrealism, and then there’s that difficult-to-explain middle ground that The Silent Twins occupies. From the great Polish-born director Agnieszka Smoczynska (The Lure) comes this true story about […]

Without even realizing it, I have come to truly love the works of filmmaker Gina Prince-Bythewood (Love & Basketball; Beyond the Lights; The Old Guard), but nothing quite prepared me […]

Meant to be a lighthearted romp, much like the production portrayed in the play being put on within the movie, See How They Run finds ways to be frothy without […]