Mary Rose Archives - Chicago Reader

Woman in Victorian dress stands with back to us in a backlit doorway, framed with foliage. On the right front, a man is kneeling.

Ghostly grief

by Albert Williams January 10, 2022March 3, 2022

In January of 2020, Black Button Eyes Productions presented the Chicago premiere of Duncan Sheik and Kyle Jarrow’s quirky musical ghost story Whisper House, about an 11-year-old boy living in a haunted lighthouse. Now the company—whose motto is “We help magic invade reality”—has returned to song-driven supernatural storytelling with Mary Rose, an original musical based […]

Magician Kayla Drescher stands in front of a colorful brick wall (with a mural on it), holding a paper pink heart.

City Life

Magic, Bowie, con artists, and more

by Salem Collo-Julin, Micco Caporale and Kerry Reid January 7, 2022January 7, 2022

Yeah, it’s cold, but our hearts are still warm with all the feels for these upcoming events! FRI 1/7 Tickets are still available for tonight’s live podcast taping of Not Another D&D Podcast at the Vic (3145 N. Sheffield). In this campaign after the campaign, three unlikely adventurers try to correct all the wrongs that […]

Illustration of a a young woman surrounded by ghostly figures, skulls, and trailing vines, with a beating red heart in the center of her body.

Arts & Culture

The lost girl

by Kerry Reid January 5, 2022March 3, 2022

J.M. Barrie’s most famous creation has become shorthand for all puckish men-children who refuse to grow up, entranced by a world of adventure and derring-do, where good and evil exist on an uncomplicated binary. But while Peter Pan and his fellow Lost Boys have found life in numerous adaptations since Barrie first introduced the character […]