Talking about how we process the world and our place in it through the visual arts rather than the spoken word can lead to some curious places. The people, things and […]
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard has been gracing Chicago stages for over a decade, with their earliest performances dating back to 2014 in spots like Beat Kitchen and Subterranean. […]
The most important part of director Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 High and Low (which in turn was based on the Ed McBain novel King’s Ransom) was never the story of a […]
Following up his debut feature, Sequin in a Blue Room, New Zealand filmmaker Samuel Van Grinsven gives us a different kind of ghost story with Went Up the Hill. The […]
The Grant Park orchestra played an excellent concert at Jay Pritzker Pavillion on Wednesday evening. Unfortunately, the ambient noises were worse than ever, with several sirens blaring, motorcycles screaming, and […]
A part of the success of the 2021 film Nobody likely had something to do with the novelty that it’s the story of a seemingly ordinary man fighting like a […]
It’s always a pleasant and refreshing surprise when a band or artist performs their album in its entirety from front to back; and last weekend’s BRONCHO show at Thalia Hall […]
General readers, beware! Tom Comitta’s new book Patchwork isn’t for you. Patchwork isn’t for someone who wants a novel that tells a story and has characters and settings and scenes. […]
As my household library shifts from Brown Bear and Pig the Pug into Harry Potter, Unicorn Academy, and various heavy tomes about dinosaurs, there is one constant that remains, books […]
Aftershows are always the best. There’s just something in the air that makes everyone put on their Sunday best, at least mentally and emotionally, that is. Everyone is in better […]
Based on the city’s north side and staged at Skokie’s North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, Music Theater Works regularly produces a slate of relatively traditional American musicals. Last […]
The first national tour of the musical Parade arrived in Chicago this week with impressive credentials. Based on a true story set in Atlanta, it involves the 1913 rape and […]