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 […]
Tag: Moby Dick
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We’re all in the same boat (alone) with Moby Dick and How Do We Navigate Space?
Two streaming shows from Theatre in the Dark and Strawdog capture the drama of obsession and isolation.
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Goodbye to songwriter Michael Smith
With “The Dutchman” and other widely recorded songs, Michael Smith created emotional realities that let you feel along with his characters.
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Michael Zerang explores time, tone, and light with a musical coffin from Moby-Dick
This weekend Chicago percussionist Michael Zerang plays an instrument called Queequeg’s Coffin with a string quartet for the drone piece Follow the Light.
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Leave the flatlands behind in Savanna and Galena, along the bluffs of the mighty Mississippi
Head west for quaint townships and lush landscapes.
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Arnie the Doughnut, Tangles and Plaques, and 11 more new stage shows to see
A delightful kids’ show and a Neo-Futurist’s look at dementia are among this week’s best bets.
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There’s madness ahoy in Lookingglass’s Moby Dick
David Catlin’s dazzling aerial-acrobatic production returns.
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Moby Dick with puppets at the MCA, All-American basketball at the United Center, and more things to do in Chicago
Message For Details, Dad’s Basement dance party, and more happenings from March 28-31.
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Orson Welles’s five best performances in films he didn’t direct
Highlights from Orson Welles’s acting career
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Lookingglass Theatre moves Moby-Dick from sea to sky
Lookingglass Theatre’s dazzling new staging of Moby-Dick uses aerial acrobatics to buoy Melville’s masterpiece.
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Shattered Globe Theatre’s The Whaleship Essex pulls a Melville
Shattered Globe Theatre’s The Whaleship Essex is bestilled, if not dead, in the water.
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Still a beach bum, after all these years
A planned major rehab never happened, but at 60, Theater on the Lake has some new blood
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12 O’Clock Track: Ahab, “The Giant”
A ten-minute opus from a German funeral-doom band obsessed with Moby-Dick
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Salonathon
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.