Uncle Joe was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatsoever about that. The cardboard boxes littered the floor, filled with Joe’s tools, Joe’s college textbooks, Joe’s albums and manuals, Joe’s CDs, Joe’s tax returns, Joe’s unfinished projects, and all manner of Joe’s mess and memorabilia, stacked in a circle radiating outwards from a […]
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Monster mash-up
The Chicago Children’s Theatre’s 18th season kicks off with Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About a Terrible Monster, an innovative production from the Emmy Award-winning multimedia performance collective, Manual Cinema. Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About a Terrible Monster Through 10/16: Sat-Sun 9:30 and 11:30 AM, Chicago Children’s Theatre, 100 S. Racine, 312-374-8835, chicagochildrenstheatre.org, $25-$36 Based on […]
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Yule be home for Christmas with Manual Cinema and Hell in a Handbag
A Dickens chestnut and a spoof of 1970s celebrity specials join the online holiday theater lineup.
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Manual Cinema celebrates a decade of innovative work
The company offers an online ‘retrospectacular’ of four previous shows.
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Manual Cinema’s Frankenstein is technically dazzling and emotionally cold
The latest version of the story presented in Chicago is inflected with bits of Mary Shelley’s personal life.
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In Manual Cinema’s The End of TV, two women help each other rediscover their humanity
The multimedia ensemble’s latest production is a beautiful and transfixing examination of the effects of the industrial age.
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Manual Cinema comes home to debut The End of TV
The shadow puppetry performance collective will be producing a two-week run of the show at the Chopin Theatre.
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Manual Cinema turns Gwendolyn Brooks into poetry magic
With the help of Eve Ewing, Nate Marshall, and Jamila and Ayanna Woods, the performance collective creates an immersive audiovisual event out of the poet’s life story.