When the lights dim, the curtain at the Cadillac Palace Theatre rises slowly, exposing forty pairs of feet dancing perfectly in sync. The curtain pauses at knee-height, focusing your eyes […]
Trip the Light Fantastic: The Making of SuperStrip, the new dance-theater work from Lucky Plush Productions, defies categorization. Commissioned by the Harris Theater, the show revolves around a group of […]
This ain’t your mother’s Mary Poppins. Or rather, the NightBlue Performing Arts Company’s production of Mary Poppins is a jaunty expansion of the 1964 movie we all know and love. […]
It’s difficult to turn your life– and your pain– into art. Too often it ends up being therapy– good for you, but not necessarily good for the audience. But All […]
The first time I saw Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things was at my small Midwestern liberal arts college, the same setting as the play itself. Afterwards, my friends and […]
He has a book club. She has a book club. Here a book club, there a book club, everywhere a book club! This is only a slight exaggeration, as Chicago […]
On a cold Tuesday night, 30 to 40 people crowd the back of Women and Children First in Andersonville. As people continue to arrive, extra chairs miraculously appear, pushed up against […]