Mamby on the Beach: Day 1 in Review
Our guest author is Rebecca O’Neil, a Los Angeles native who traded the seashore for the lakeshore. She’s a music festival veteran. Upon entering React Present’s Mamby on the Beach at […]
Steep Theatre’s Wastwater: Three Tense Stories About the Choices We Make
Frieda, an Englishwoman of indeterminate age, is one of the links among the three parts of Wastwater, a new play by English playwright Simon Stephens in its U.S. premiere at […]
Early Morning, Weehawken, 1804
July 11 is the anniversary of the Hamilton-Burr duel at Weehawken, NJ. June Skinner Sawyers has written an homage to Hamilton and to his modern-day re-creators. Sawyers has published many […]
The Secret Life of Pets, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Under the Sun, Blood Simple (reissue), Director’s Cut
THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS People are being a little hard on this harmless little film about beloved and discarded house pets. Of course it’s derivative but a great deal […]
CST’s Doreen Sayegh Brings the Bard to the City of Big Shoulders with Shakespeare 400 Chicago
Doreen Sayegh has been a skosh busy. Playwright and quote-machine William Shakespeare died 400 years ago this year, and a few folks still like to produce his work, so […]
Emerson String Quartet Devotes Three Hours to Haydn at Ravinia
In a marathon, three-hour concert that included two intermissions at Ravinia on Tuesday night, the Emerson String Quartet gave an energetic, vibrant, yet nuanced, performance of six quartets that comprise […]
Filmmaker Michel Gondry Discusses His New Movie Microbe & Gasoline
It is all about finding something magical in life, says filmmaker Michel Gondry, when asked to sum up what his films share in common. Gondry, indeed referred to as a […]
Your Chicago Curated Weekend 7/7-7/10
I hope everyone had a fun and safe pre-fourth of July weekend. I’m still recovering from the holiday. Not so much from partying (of which there was a fair bit) […]
Stacey Comes Home: We Interview an Artist from Cirque du Soleil’s Toruk
Stacey Magiera is a gymnast turned circus artist who shows her incredible versatility by playing three different characters in Cirque du Soleil’s new show Toruk, which is coming to United […]
R.O.W.E. week 26: Write Bloody Poets
I’m Brianna Kratz, a Chicago poet and literature enthusiast. In 2016, I’m reading only women authors for my Read Only Women Experiment (R.O.W.E.). For weekly updates on challenges, conversations, and […]
Actors of Theatre at the Center’s Odd Couple Try to Redefine “Space Oddity”
Before there was a film rendition, a sitcom, an animated sitcom featuring a cat and a dog, a revival sitcom featuring the 1980s, and finally yet another sitcom featuring Chandler […]
New-to-Blu-ray: Napoli, Napoli, Napoli
Alex is a freelance movie critic who specializes in writing about classic Hollywood movies from the 1920s, ’30s & ’40s. He has his own film blog and he writes about film […]