- News & Features, Deanna Isaacs on Culture, May 23, 2013
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Richard Cotovsky's life on the fringe, rewarded
After four decades in Chicago theater, the artistic director of Mary-Arrchie gets a special nod from the Jeff Awards.
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, May 7, 2013
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The art of disability on display at Bodies of Work
The festival puts people with disabilities on the stage, on the screen, behind the mike, and—just as importantly—in the audience.
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, May 2, 2013
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By the Way, Meet Vera Stark pulls the mask off old Hollywood
The title character of Lynn Nottage's play is an amalgam of the African-American actresses whose roles were restricted in early cinema—and who are still expected to play to type.
- Performing Arts, Culture Vultures, Apr 4, 2013
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This week's Culture Vultures recommend:
House of Cards, There Is a Happiness That Morning Is, The Boy Detective Fails, and Chicago Whispers
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 1, 2013
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Red Theater tackles obscenity, nudity, honesty, and poop in a new doc
The Fourth Wall: A Red Theater Documentary screens twice in Chicago, starting tonight.
- News & Features, Deanna Isaacs on Culture, Mar 25, 2013
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Silk Road Rising's "Mosque Alert" enlists the global community
A play in progess finds six characters in search of a conversation.
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 21, 2013
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Master filmmaker Alain Resnais, still elusive at 90
Taking a first crack at his latest (but not last) feature, You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet, screening tonight at the European Union Film Festival
- News & Features, Deanna Isaacs on Culture, Dec 28, 2012
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After the Newtown shootings, another tragedy revisited
Victory Gardens Theater revives The Warriors
- News & Features, Deanna Isaacs on Culture, Dec 5, 2012
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At Victory Gardens, a bitter uprooting
The city's playwright-driven theater weeds out the old
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 23, 2012
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A haiku cliffhanger
A haiku that asks the question, Uh oh, what now?
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 30, 2012
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Show Boat and the neglected legacy of James Whale
Remembering the great British director, whose 1936 Show Boat screens this week from a restored print
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 22, 2012
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Horrors historical (Eastland) and theatrical (Dancing Queen): the week in performing arts
Fresh performing arts reviews from Reader critics
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 25, 2012
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Coal play
Hiroshi Teshigahara's Japanese ghost story Pitfall screens tonight at Chicago Cultural Center.
- News & Features, Deanna Isaacs on Culture, Aug 25, 2011
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Playwright Sarah Gubbins didn't think she was gay--or a writer
But with a couple world premieres this year, she's come into her own
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 25, 2011
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48-Hour Film Project
Join a team, make a movie in a weekend, watch it at the Logan, and vie for a chance to screen at Cannes, in the 48-Hour Film Project this weekend.
- News & Features, Letters, May 26, 2011
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Letters and Comments: Food writing without the 'distasteful trope'
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 22, 2011
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Distributor to Release Ministry Movie Despite Lawsuit
The distributor of "Fix: The Ministry Movie" still plans to shop the film in Cannes despite a lawsuit from front man Al Jourgensen.
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Feb 10, 2011
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Men Don't Leave
Victory Gardens and Writers’ Theatre do fatherhood.
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 22, 2010
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10/23—Free Staged Reading by New Leaf Theatre
New Leaf Theatre hosts a free staged reading of Bilal Dardai's The Man Who Was Thursday on Sat 10/23.
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 28, 2010
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Through 10/10—Free Performances of QED at Northwestern
Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science presents free performances of Peter Parnell's QED through October 10.
