Switch to the
mobile version
of this page.
Latest issue
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
RSS
The Daily Reader, Early Warnings, and Food & Drink e-mails
Mobile
Username
View Profile
Edit Profile
Log Out
Log in
Create Account
The Chicago Reader
City Life
News & Politics
Columns
Music
Arts & Culture
Film
Food & Drink
Events
Ads
Browse
How to place classified ads
Browse News & Politics
Features
Maya Dukmasova
Cannabis
The Ben Joravsky Show
Browse Music
Features
Chicagoans of Note
Gossip Wolf
The Listener
Secret History of Chicago Music
Music Reviews
Best Chicago albums of the 2010s
Early Warnings
Full music listings
Online events
Browse Film
Features
Movie reviews
Index of older long reviews
Small screen
Film archive: short reviews
This week’s movies of note
Movies of note: new reviews
Featured movie theaters
Browse Arts & Culture
Features
Recommended
Theater reviews
Art reviews
Ghost Light (news & notes)
Theater & Performance listings
Dance listings
Art listings
Improv/Sketch listings
Online events
Browse Food & Drink
Features
Mike Sula
Recommended
Reviews
Sommelier Series (paid sponsored content)
Cannabis
Events
Browse City Life
Community
The Mental Health Issue
Public Service Announcement
The Sex Issue
Shop Local
Sightseeing
Street View
Browse Columns
John Greenfield: On Transportation
Deanna Isaacs: On Culture
Ben Joravsky: On Politics
The Ben Joravsky Show
Dan Savage: Savage Love
Opinion
Browse Ads
Classifieds
Matches
How to advertise
Display advertising information
Classified advertising information
Submit a free Matches ad
Browse Events
Online events
Full event listings
Reader events
Recommended today
Recommended this weekend
This week’s movies of note
Early Warnings (Music)
Full music listings
Theater & Performance listings
Dance listings
Improv/Sketch listings
Art listings
Lit & Lectures listings
Food & Drink events
Cannabis events
Parties
Other stuff
Chicago Reader Book Club
TixReader: Buy tickets
Vote! Best of Chicago
Online events
Early Warnings
Articles
Issues
Find a paper
Giveaways
Store
Book Club
Donate
Articles
Clear Filters
Filters
Recommended
close
Categories
Year
Features
News & Politics
All News & Politics
Back Room Deal
Cannabis
Comics Feature
Culture
Essay
Fall Preview
Feature
Media
News
Our Town
Politics
Sports
The Ben Joravsky Show
Columns & Opinion
All Columns & Opinion
Identity & Culture
On Culture
On Media
On Politics
On Transportation
Opinion
Savage Love
Staff notes
To Be Blunt
Music
All Music
Chicagoans of Note
Concert Preview
Fall Preview
Gig Poster of the Week
Gossip Wolf
In Rotation
Music Feature
Music Review
Pitchfork
The Block Beat
The Listener
The Secret History of Chicago Music
Best of Chicago
All Best of Chicago
Arts & Culture
Arts & Entertainment
Best of Chicago Ballot
Buy Local
Cannabis
City Life
Credits
Food & Drink
Goods & Services
Introduction
Music & Nightlife
Reasons to love Chicago
Sports & Recreation
Arts & Culture
All Arts & Culture
Architecture
Art Feature
Art Review
Book Review
Book Swap
Books and Comics Issue
Books Issue
Calendar
Comedy
Comics
Dance
Fall Preview
Fall Theater and Dance
Fashion
Feature
Festival
Fiction
Flash Fiction
Ghost Light
History
Holiday Events
Lit Feature
New Year's Eve
Performing Arts Feature
Performing Arts Review
Prairie Pothole
Pride 2019
Pride 2020
Spring Theater and Dance
Theater Preview
Theater Review
Travel
Valentine's Day
Winter Theater and Dance
City Life
All City Life
Comics Feature
Community
Feature
Feral Citizen
Holiday Gift Guide
Pets Issue
Public Service Announcement
Shop Local
Sightseeing
Stay at Home
Staycation
Street View
Windy Citizens
Film
All Film
Fall Preview
Film Issue
Flopcorn
Movie Feature
Movie Review
Small Screen
Food & Drink
All Food & Drink
Bar Review
Cooking with Cannabis
Fall Preview
Food & Drink Feature
Food, Drink, and Cannabis Issue
Key Ingredient
Restaurant Review
Reader
All Reader
AAXLL Supply Co (sponsored advertising)
About
Aeriz (paid sponsored content)
Announcements
Camelot Illinois (sponsored advertising)
Cannabis Conversations (paid sponsored content)
Chicago Votes (sponsored advertising)
Classified advertising
Corvelay Media Inc. (paid sponsored content)
David Jay Collins (sponsored advertising)
Digital Editions
Early to Bed (sponsored advertising)
Fufluns Foods (sponsored advertising)
Google Fiber Webpass (sponsored advertising)
GTI (paid sponsored content)
Invictus Media Group (sponsored advertising))
Leafwell (sponsored advertising)
Lyft (sponsored advertising)
Matches
Merlot (sponsored advertising)
Nature’s Care Company (sponsored advertising)
Poetry Foundation (sponsored advertising)
Press releases
Reader events
Reader: Planned Parenthood Illinois (sponsored advertising)
Red Bull (sponsored advertising)
SocialWorks (sponsored advertising))
Steve Allen Media (sponsored advertising)
Tequila Herradura (sponsored advertising)
The Foley Food and Wine Society (paid sponsored content)
The Lytle House (sponsored advertising)
Tulip Tree Gardens (sponsored advertising)
Verma Media (sponsored advertising)
Other Stuff
Blogs
close
Categories
Year
Features
Issue.Year
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
1994
1993
1992
1991
1990
1989
1988
1987
1986
1985
1984
1983
1982
1981
1980
1979
1978
1977
1976
1975
1974
1973
1972
1971
close
Categories
Year
Features
Features
Recommended
Member Picks
Slideshow
Video
Audio
Critics' Picks
Readers' Poll
Image
Sponsored
Gallery - User Submitted
close
Sort by:
Most Recent
Top Viewed
Number of Comments
Relevance
Loading...
16 results
Arts & Culture
,
Performing Arts Review
May 29, 2019
Volta
brings back the full death-defying Cirque du Soleil experience
The ever-present danger is as much a part of a Cirque show as the spectacle.
By Jack Helbig
Tags:
Performing Arts Review
,
Volta
,
Cirque du Soleil
,
Jean Guibert
,
Yann Arnaud
,
stunts
,
circus
Arts & Culture
,
Performing Arts Review
Jul 26, 2017
Prepare to be dumbstruck by Cirque du Soleil’s
Luzia
The company’s latest spectacular is “a waking dream of Mexico” as mind-bestirring as it is surreal.
By Jack Helbig
Tags:
Performing Arts Review
,
United Center
,
Cirque du Soleil
,
Luzia: A Waking Dream of Mexico
,
Daniele Finzi Pasca
,
Julie Hamelin
,
Salon Mexico
,
Diego Rivera
,
Frida Kahlo
,
circus
,
circus arts
,
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey
,
Guy Laliberté
,
Gilles Ste-Croix
,
the Greatest Show on Earth
,
Picasso
,
Chagall
,
E.E. Cummings
,
Wallace Stevens
,
Simon Carpentier
,
Martin Labrecque
,
Angelica Bongiovonni
,
Enya White
,
Cyr wheel
,
trapeze
,
acrobats
,
clowns
Blogs
,
Bleader
Nov 11, 2016
Chicago Book Expo, Pop-Up Magazine, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend
Fun Home
, Handmade Market Chicago, and more happenings from November 11-13.
By Isabel Ochoa Gold
Tags:
Arts
,
Do This
,
Alison Bechdel
,
Fun Home
,
Out of This World
,
Circus
,
Chicago Book Expo
,
Jonathan Giles
,
Revival
,
Pop-Up Magazine
,
Robert J. Gordon
,
Handmade Market Chicago
,
Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov
,
National Museum of Mexican Art
,
Yollocalli
,
Chill Set
Arts & Culture
,
Theater Review
Aug 12, 2015
Recommended
Cirque du Soleil is thrilling again
With
Kurios: The Cabinet of Curiosities
the troupe puts the focus back on the jaw-dropping talents of humans, not eye candy.
By Tony Adler
Tags:
Theater Review
,
Cirque du Soleil
,
Kurios: The Cabinet of Curiosities
,
United Center
,
circus
,
Sarah Guyard-Guillot
,
Andrii Bondarenko
,
Facundo Gimenez
,
Gabriel Beaudoin
,
Christopher Chatham
,
Baz Luhrmann
,
Moulin Rouge!
,
The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen
,
Recommended
Blogs
,
Bleader
Apr 6, 2014
Reader
's Agenda Sun 4/6: Windy City Gay Idol,
A Space Odyssey
, and Eleventh Dream Day
What's on the
Reader
's Agenda for Sunday April 6
By Taylor Tolbert
Tags:
Do This
,
Arts
,
American Idol
,
The Voice
,
Windy City Gay Idol
,
LGBTQ
,
Sofo Tap
,
Mayne Stage
,
CircEsteem
,
A Space Odyssey
,
Alternatives
,
circus
,
Eleventh Dream Day
,
Riot Now!
,
Hideout
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jun 14, 2013
Queen of the Air
: The greatest circus story ever told
Dean Jensen has written the first biography of Leitzel, the circus's greatest star.
By Aimee Levitt
Tags:
Books
,
This Will Kill You
,
Arts
,
Leitzel
,
Lillian Leitzel
,
Alfredo Codona
,
Alfred Pelikan
,
Dean Jensen
,
circus
,
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
,
aerialist
,
Victoria Codona
,
trapeze
,
Milwaukee Institute of Art
Music
,
Music Sidebar
Sep 15, 2011
Brilliant Corners
The new Brilliant Corners of Popular Amusements festival presents Dan Deacon, Shellac, and some actual clowns
By Luca Cimarusti
Tags:
Music Sidebar
,
Brilliant Corners
,
circus
,
vaudeville
,
Bill Callahan
,
Sidi Toure
,
Bomba Estereo
,
Cave
,
A Hawk & A Handsaw
,
Charles Bradley
,
Dark Dark Dark
,
Shellac
,
Cloudbirds
,
Hollows
,
B.S. Brass Band
,
Magic Carpet
Blogs
,
Bleader
Feb 1, 2011
Video
Mucca Pazza: The Movie
The Kickstarter video for Daniele Wilmouth's Mucca Pazza film "Marching Banned" is so entertaining, you really do want to watch them ask you for money.
By Ed M. Koziarski
Tags:
Film
,
Music
,
Daniele Wilmouth
,
Mucca Pazza
,
circus
,
punk
,
marching band
,
marching banned
,
kickstarter
,
Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts
,
Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center
,
EMPAC
,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
,
Peter Carpenter
,
Eleanore and the Timekeeper
,
dance
,
choreographer
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Aug 5, 2010
Bleak Geek
Damn everything but the circus!
By Cliff Doerksen
Tags:
Bad News From the Past
,
We're Old
,
Wild man
,
circus
,
albino
,
Madagascar
,
county
,
Pleasantville
,
Oscar Graham
,
ee cummings
Blogs
,
Bleader
Aug 4, 2010
Wilding
Not all wild men worked in a circus
By Cliff Doerksen
Tags:
Bad News From the Past
,
We're Old
,
Circus
,
wild man
,
rape
,
confession
,
lynching
,
mob
,
law enforcement
,
sheriff
,
jail
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jul 29, 2010
Offal performance
There are limits to what even the marks will put up with
By Cliff Doerksen
Tags:
Bad News From the Past
,
We're Old
,
Wild man
,
circus
,
liver
,
carnival
,
geek
,
mob
,
violence
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jul 28, 2010
Fra Leppo Nippy
Wild is as wild does
By Cliff Doerksen
Tags:
Bad News From the Past
,
We're Old
,
Circus
,
carnival
,
wild man
,
geeking
,
race
,
bite
,
biting
,
Wild Men of Borneo
,
P.T. Barnum
,
Leppo
,
lightning
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jul 27, 2010
Loco Vore
"Eat bugs" commandeth the Lord thy God.
By Cliff Doerksen
Tags:
Bad News From the Past
,
We're Old
,
Wild man
,
circus
,
law
,
locust
,
Leviticus
,
grasshopper
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jul 22, 2010
Geek Chic
You had to have a screw loose to work as a geek
By Cliff Doerksen
Tags:
Bad News From the Past
,
We're Old
,
carnival
,
circus
,
doctors
,
geek
,
pain
,
steel plate in head
,
surgeon
,
tusk
,
wild man
,
Wild men
Blogs
,
Bleader
Apr 3, 2009
4/6 -- Circus class
Free circus skills class for adults Monday at CircEsteem.
By Nicholas Teddy
Tags:
Free Shit
,
Swag
,
Uptown
,
circus
,
CircEsteem
,
juggling
,
clowning
,
stilts
,
stilt-walking
,
trapeze
,
spinning plates
,
plate spinning
Arts & Culture
,
Theater Critic's Choice
Jul 20, 1995
Alegria
By Albert Williams
Tags:
Theater Critic's Choice
,
The Cirque du Soleil
,
Alegria
,
Acrobats
,
Contortionists
,
Jugglers
,
Tumblers
,
Circus
,
Cityfront Center
Browse by Issue
Other Searches
Events
Location Guide
Member Search
Movie Showtimes
Movie Reviews
Article Archives
Issue Archives
Slideshows
Comments
Videos
Images
Best of Chicago voting ballot
Best of Chicago 2019
About the
Chicago Reader
Reader
Staff
Reader
Careers
Freelancing Info
Contact Us
Advertising information
Distribution Locations Map
Reader
Subscriptions/Back Issues
Reprints
Chicago Reader Book Club
Upcoming
Reader
events
TixReader: Buy event tickets
Store
Support the
Reader
: Become a member
Make a donation
Terms of Use
Privacy Policy
Copyright © 2021 Chicago Reader
Powered by
Foundation