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.
Andrew Tham, composer, performer, and cofounder of Parlour Tapes
“I was just livestreaming myself from my room for eight hours a day, just to see what it felt like. It was weird.”
Manual Cinema celebrates a decade of innovative work
The company offers an online ‘retrospectacular’ of four previous shows.
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.
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.
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.
Parlour Tapes knocks classical music off its high horse
Young Chicago label Parlour Tapes has hosted a fake job fair, but they’ve also released some of the city’s best new classical music.
Gossip Wolf: Forced Into Femininity pushes a new tape with an aboveground show
Forced Into Femininity plays an aboveground show, Templehead unveils its rock opera, and more