Looking for some ways to spice up your winter free time? We’ve got you covered, just read on. FRI 1/14 It’s certainly been gloomy and gray enough lately to turn your mind to gothic fancies, and A Red Orchid Theatre (1531 N. Wells) feeds that inclination with the Chicago premiere of Jen Silverman’s The Moors. […]
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Readings, livestreams, and drunk farmers
Upcoming events and distractions from our listings coordinator
Posted inMusic
Krampus 1,000,000 A.D. on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was designed by local artist EC Brown.
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Three short films demonstrate the power of puppets
Figures made of cloth and sticks bring the atrocities of the Belgian Congo, a nudist colony, and lonely workers on the night shift to life.
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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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Growing up furry on Avenue Q
Aimless college grads still need their own Sesame Street.
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Up yours! A satanic Kermit takes over a good Lutheran kid in Victory Gardens’ Hand to God
Alex Weisman is masterfully schizoid in a dark comedy written by Robert Askins and directed by Gary Griffin.
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Reader’s Agenda Mon 9/29: Nasty, Brutish, and Short, ‘Hats Off to Dr. Seuss!,’ and Earth
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Monday, September 29
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The great puppet caper
The story behind a Wicker Park building full of “creepy wooden dolls with strings”
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This week’s Chicagoan: Chris McBrien, educational performer
This week’s Chicagoan is Chris McBrien, educational performer
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The Reader’s guide to the Chicago Women’s Funny Festival
Comics from LA to PA perform at the second annual Chicago Women’s Funny Festival.
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Reader’s Agenda Mon 3/4: The Greens, Pulaski Day, and puppets
What’s on the Reader’s Agenda for Monday, March 4, 2013.
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Odds N Friends, A History of Everything, and other arty stuff to do this weekend
Arty stuff to do this weekend
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The Chicago Fringe Festival’s second year
People are always doing awesome, out-there stuff with puppets at fringe festivals—my first fringe experience involved tiny ninjas acting out Hamlet. Among the 47 entries in this year’s Chicago Fringe Festival is an Avenue Q-style staging of George Romero’s zombie classic, Night of the Living Dead, by Milwaukee’s Angry Young Men Ltd. (Sun 9/4, 7 […]