A Dickens chestnut and a spoof of 1970s celebrity specials join the online holiday theater lineup.
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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.”
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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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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.
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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