A daily dip into the stacks, leading up to our 50th anniversary in October
Category: Feature
Posted inArts & Culture
Cultural Asset Mapping Project creates a ‘braided web’
The city’s Cultural Asset Mapping Project (C.A.M.P.) uses creative storytelling, data visualization, and many other collaborative tools to build arts engagement on the south and west sides.
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Contretemps beats against the time
Contretemps Contemporary Ballet challenges the stereotypes of the form in Heat Lightning.
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Remembering Sally Nemeth
A playwright’s playwright, Sally Nemeth planted seeds of encouragement and collaboration.
Posted inNews & Politics
Reasonable doubt
James Allen is serving three life sentences for murder. No one ever said he killed anyone.
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A tsunami of news and a new path for Actors’ Equity membership
Changes in faces, places, and union rules might carry harbingers of a shifting landscape in Chicago theater.
Posted inNews & Politics
A silence louder than words
How allegations of sexual abuse exposed cracks in the foundation of Young Chicago Authors, Free Write Arts & Literacy, and the city’s spoken word community
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Remy Bumppo and Teatro Vista name new artistic directors
Marti Lyons takes over at Remy Bumppo, while Lorena Diaz and Wendy Mateo share the top job at Teatro Vista.
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Mitsu Salmon considers the orchid
A new interdisciplinary work digs into the roots of one of the most mythologized of flowers.
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Joel Hall Dancers tap the spirit of the phoenix again
In LEGACY: Phoenix^5, Joel Hall Dancers celebrate the past and look to the future.
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Eschaton is a virtual cabaret with a surreal twist
Eschaton host Tony Grayson rolls out the willkommen mat for a livestream variety show.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Looking for YOMHN with Monica Brown
In “Roots, Branches: Ancestor(s) Stones,” Monica Brown traces ancestral legacies.
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Tap Secret! offers “cotton candy” escapism and a welcome return to live performance
Chicago Tap Theatre and JC Brooks team up for a new show with a 90s beat.
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Black Ensemble Theater scores big with MacKenzie Scott grant; Victory Gardens announces new playwrights ensemble
$5 million helps BET regain lost ground from COVID, while Ken-Matt Martin reignites a VG tradition.