- Blogs, Bleader, May 21, 2013
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ArtPlace America ignites Great Chicago Fire Festival with $250,000 grant
A brand-new grant adds flame to the pyre.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 16, 2013
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Lyric Opera's Oklahoma!: Where's that sound guy?
Lyric Opera of Chicago miked up for Oklahoma!, but could use a few tweaks.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 12, 2013
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Still thinking about Lookingglass Theatre's Still Alice—and about Alzheimer's
The play and the novel it's based on grapple with the disease honestly, as does a recent account in free verse.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 10, 2013
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Remembering Robert Sickinger, a pioneer of off-Loop theater
The Hull-House Theater director who inspired David Mamet and Jim Jacobs has died in Florida at age 86.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 8, 2013
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Is Ado Annie the key to a revisionist Oklahoma!?
Thinking about Hammerstein's musical before its performance at Lyric Opera
- Blogs, Bleader, May 2, 2013
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Lyric Opera of Chicago is getting miked for Oklahoma!
To ring in a new Rodgers and Hammerstein work, Lyric will introduce a new soundsystem.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 2, 2013
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Social media Shakespeare: An idea whose time has finally come
Isinglass Theater performs Much Ado About Nothing through social media.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 30, 2013
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A New York Times story begins with a gratuitous display of humility
Note to writers: Don't grovel
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 18, 2013
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Quick: Deadline for city artist's grant is one minute before midnight, tomorrow
You can still apply for a Chicago artist's grant; the deadline is Fri 4/19.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 5, 2013
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An example of the late Roger Ebert's grace
Remembering the late film critic's reaction to Siskel & Ebert Save Chicago
- 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.
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 29, 2013
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Catch this Streetcar if you can
Lyric Opera's A Streetcar Named Desire is sold out, but you might still be able to land a ticket.
- 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
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 11, 2013
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The deep hidden meaning behind Gorilla Tango Theatre's Bikini Shakespeare
The director of Bikini Shakespeare explains the deep hidden meaning behind her artistic vision—sort of.
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 8, 2013
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A haiku on How Long Will I Cry?: Voices of Youth Violence
A response to a Steppenwolf for Young Adults show whose several stories include the murder of Chicago college student Francisco Valencia
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 5, 2013
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Victory Gardens Theater shortens its season
The company also looks for resident companies to share its space.
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 1, 2013
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A haiku on Cadre and Fela!, two shows that hit Chicago almost simultaneously
A South African play and a show about a Nigerian icon had brief, overlapping runs here.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 27, 2013
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Tonight and Friday: Chicago Opera Theater's sexed-up The Fall of the House of Usher
Chicago Opera Theater takes Philip Glass's The Fall of the House of Usher into the realm of repressed sexual identity.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 22, 2013
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A haiku on Chicago Shakespeare Theater's updated and heavily armed Julius Caesar
CST's history play needs gun control.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 20, 2013
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In Cadre, Omphile Molusi visits the dark continent of apartheid
Omphile Molusi's Cadre reviewed
