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Home » Moby Dick

Tag: Moby Dick

a young girl with dark skin and dark curly hair holds up a cute blue sea creature with big black eyes
Posted inFilm

The Sea Beast

by Catey Sullivan July 19, 2022July 19, 2022

If you’re going to title your movie The Sea Beast, you need to commit to a beast that earns its billing.

An illustration of singer-songwriter Michael P. Smith embedded in the title card for the Secret History of Chicago Music
Posted inMusic

Michael P. Smith deserves to be as widely remembered as his songs

by Steve Krakow December 1, 2021December 1, 2021

The past 20 months have been such a whirlwind of sickness, grief, political madness, and worldwide protests for causes either righteous and necessary or selfish and deranged—it hasn’t been easy for music fans to do justice to the lives and memories of all the amazing artists who’ve passed away during this chaotic period. Famous folk […]

"Six Feet Apart" from Strawdog Theatre's How Do We Navigate Space?
Posted inArts & Culture

We’re all in the same boat (alone) with Moby Dick and How Do We Navigate Space?

by Kerry Reid March 26, 2021August 18, 2021

Two streaming shows from Theatre in the Dark and Strawdog capture the drama of obsession and isolation.

Posted inMusic

Goodbye to songwriter Michael Smith

by Mark Guarino August 5, 2020November 24, 2021

With “The Dutchman” and other widely recorded songs, Michael Smith created emotional realities that let you feel along with his characters.

Posted inBlogs

Michael Zerang explores time, tone, and light with a musical coffin from Moby-Dick

by Bill Meyer October 3, 2018August 18, 2021

This weekend Chicago percussionist Michael Zerang plays an instrument called Queequeg’s Coffin with a string quartet for the drone piece Follow the Light.

Posted inArts & Culture

Leave the flatlands behind in Savanna and Galena, along the bluffs of the mighty Mississippi

by Ted Cox May 30, 2018August 18, 2021

Head west for quaint townships and lush landscapes.

Posted inArts & Culture

Arnie the Doughnut, Tangles and Plaques, and 11 more new stage shows to see

by Chicago Reader October 25, 2017August 18, 2021

A delightful kids’ show and a Neo-Futurist’s look at dementia are among this week’s best bets.

Posted inArts & Culture

There’s madness ahoy in Lookingglass’s Moby Dick

by Max Maller June 29, 2017August 18, 2021

David Catlin’s dazzling aerial-acrobatic production returns.

Posted inBlogs

Moby Dick with puppets at the MCA, All-American basketball at the United Center, and more things to do in Chicago

by Brianna Wellen March 28, 2016August 18, 2021

Message For Details, Dad’s Basement dance party, and more happenings from March 28-31.

Posted inBlogs

Orson Welles’s five best performances in films he didn’t direct

by Drew Hunt August 9, 2015August 18, 2021

Highlights from Orson Welles’s acting career

Posted inArts & Culture

Lookingglass Theatre moves Moby-Dick from sea to sky

by Zac Thompson June 24, 2015August 18, 2021

Lookingglass Theatre’s dazzling new staging of Moby-Dick uses aerial acrobatics to buoy Melville’s masterpiece.

Josh Nordmark, Brad Woodard, Zach Bloomfield, Antonio Zhiurinskas, Drew Schad, and Ben Werling
Posted inArts & Culture

Shattered Globe Theatre’s The Whaleship Essex pulls a Melville

by Tony Adler September 10, 2014August 18, 2021

Shattered Globe Theatre’s The Whaleship Essex is bestilled, if not dead, in the water.

Theater on the Lake curators Meghan Beals McCarthy and Michael Patrick Thornton and managing director Samantha Chavis
Posted inColumns & Opinion

Still a beach bum, after all these years

by Deanna Isaacs June 5, 2012August 19, 2021

A planned major rehab never happened, but at 60, Theater on the Lake has some new blood

Posted inBlogs

12 O’Clock Track: Ahab, “The Giant”

by Philip Montoro May 9, 2012August 19, 2021

A ten-minute opus from a German funeral-doom band obsessed with Moby-Dick

Posted inBlogs

Salonathon

by Ed M. Koziarski August 4, 2011August 19, 2021

The Chicago Underground Film Festival curates a program of “fantastical, funny, friendly, freakish films” from this year’s lineup Monday 8/8 at Beauty Bar.

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