Cheryl Snodgrass Archives - Chicago Reader

A drawing-room setting. Six people in evening clothes and feathers are seated in a semi-circle in the rear. A man in a combination of plaids is doing a chicken impression before them.

Flying feathers

by Dan Jakes June 30, 2022July 25, 2022

There are a lot of substantive and weighty criticisms to be levied at the RuPaul’s Drag Race franchise and its global juggernaut influence over drag culture. Then there are petty ones, like mine: the series sucks at showcasing scripted camp. Nothing hushes even the most raucous, shoulder-to-shoulder packed bar viewing parties quite like the competition’s […]

Portrait of white woman with long gray hair, wearing a black striped sweater and strand of beads.

Ghost Light

Deb Clapp takes final bows at the League of Chicago Theatres

by Kerry Reid February 22, 2022February 22, 2022

When I was first doing theater in Chicago back in the Pleistocene era (that is, the late 1980s), the League of Chicago Theatres (formed in 1979 as the Off Loop Producers Association) seemed most notable for running the Hot Tix discount ticket booth and offering co-op advertising rates to member theaters in publications like the […]