Review: Grossman Ensemble Ends the Season Memorably
The Grossman Ensemble ended their 2023/2024 season in a memorable way at Logan Center for Performing Arts in Hyde Park on Friday night. Under the direction of conductor Jeffery Meyer, […]
Review: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Brings Exquisite Craft and Depth to Of Joy
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago closed out season 46 with a program titled Of Joy. Passion, joy, and dancers in peak performance mode were on display much to the audience’s pleasure. […]
Review: Blank Theatre’s On the Twentieth Century Never Reaches Full Steam
The new production of On the Twentieth Century by Blank Theatre Company, directed by Danny Kapinos, is the latest incarnation of many fabulous versions of this story—on stage and screen. […]
Review: Dehd Ushers in an Early Summer Renaissance for Chicago With New Album Poetry
As one of the hardest working and effortlessly talented bands in Chicago, the three-piece Dehd are back with a brand new album Poetry just two short years after their last […]
Review: Wildcat Attempts to Reveal Flannery O’Connor Through O’Connor’s Own Words
As filmmakers and creatives look to their own for subject matter, there are ultimately two options to chronicle the lives and inner dialogues of notable authors, musicians, artists and others: […]
Review: In Back to Black, Newcomer Marisa Abela Is the Central Force of a Less-Than-Compelling Biopic
Sometimes, it comes down to a performance. In the case of the new Amy Winehouse docudrama Back To Black, from director Sam Taylor-Johnson (Fifty Shades of Gray, Nowhere Boy), that […]
Review: Frame of Reference Elevates an Already-Popular Story with Gods & Monsters Adaptation in World Premiere Production
Some properties exist on a Wheel of Fortune spinner of adaptations. The Producers was a movie, then a musical, then a movie. Mean Girls lived the same life. Beetlejuice has […]
Review: City Lit Stages T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral in a Church Sanctuary With a World Premiere Score
Murder in the Cathedral is a solemn play, drawn from the works of master poet and Nobel-Prize laureate T.S. Eliot. The 1935 verse play is now on stage at City […]
Review: Belle & Sebastian Bring Some Love to the Salt Shed
It took me a second to realize, but Belle and Sebastian have been in the game for 28 years with a dozen albums under their belts and a hefty mount […]
Interview: Michael Shannon and Travis Knight Talk About Turret, Working With an Ensemble and Being Fearless on Stage
In 1993, A Red Orchid Theatre (and its talented ensemble of writers, directors, and actors) established itself as a pillar of Chicago’s independent theater scene. In 2024, two of its […]
Review: I Saw the TV Glow Blends a Stark Visual Style with a Compelling, Creepy Teenage Story
Under its super-charged surface story of an obsessed young fan of a TV show, I Saw the TV Glow has a great deal going on, including the story of an identity transformation […]
Review: A Dazzling Debut—The Divorcées, by Rowan Beaird
No-fault divorces are currently legal in every US state, making it relatively easy to end an unhappy marriage. It may be hard to imagine how recently “irreconcilable differences” were not […]