Sabina Ott’s who cares for the sky? demands participation of all ages the moment one enters the room. Forcing viewers to confront their obsession with conquest, the artist has built […]
At the open of the 40th anniversary season, this past Sunday afternoon the Black Ensemble Theater in Uptown was hopping as the ensemble cast of Doo Wop Shoo Bop revisited […]
The annual Academy Awards night is just around the corner and that means it’s time to figure out where you’ll be watching this year’s show. To honor cinema’s greatest night, film […]
We start off this week’s edition of Your Chicago Curated Weekend with a concert that’s not happening. Ke$ha was scheduled to play at Loyola University on Friday. But yesterday, she canceled […]
Tucked away in the seemingly top secret, instrument adorned “music room” of Soho House Chicago, Eryn Allen Kane hosted an after show following her first ever solo and, might I […]
I must be in a drinking mood this week because this sounds like my kind of evening. On Monday, February 29, Parts and Labor is hosting an evening of trivia […]
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 […]
An ensemble member walks across the stage at The Neofuturarium to introduce the next short play in the line-up. She gives us the name of the author and what elementary […]
This past weekend, the New York-based Urban Bush Women dance company went on an explorative journey through the music, spirit and life of John Coltrane-and took Chicago audiences along for […]
It is perhaps no accident that Cocked, a play about many things, but chief among them gun violence, takes place in Victory Gardens Theater, which is located in the Biograph […]
The Goodman Theatre’s new production of 2666, adapted from the massive novel by the late Roberto Bolaño, takes five stories and threads them loosely together with a couple of mysteries […]
My personal Mount Rushmore of Comedy Influences includes Gilda Radner (as well as Carol Burnett, Judy Blume, and Erma Bombeck). Much of my schtick has been influenced by Roseanne Roseannadanna and […]