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Blogs, Bleader May 16, 2016
Salvador Dali, Craft Beer Week, Carol Burnett, and more things to do in Chicago this week

A Gospel Fest preview, photographer Lynsey Addario, author Gemma Correll, and more happenings from May 16-19
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, The Imaginative World of Dali, Zygman Voss, Salvador Dali, Lynsey Addario, Field Museum, Gemma Correll, Women and Children First, Carol Burnett, Chicago Theatre, Chicago Gospel Festival Preview, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicagoland Shorts Vol 2, Headquarters Beercade, Beer Under Glass, Chicago Craft Beer Week, Garfield Park Conservatory, Hambook, Flat Iron Comedy

Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 6, 2015
Recommended
There's sadism aplenty in La Casa de Bernarda Alba

Aguijón Theater gives Federico García Lorca's masterpiece a dreamlike staging that's worth the trek.
- By Chloe Riley
- Tags: Theater Review, La Casa de Bernarda Alba, Aguijón Theater, Federico García Lorca, The House of Bernarda Alba, PBS, Wolf Hall, Luis Bunuel, Salvador Dali, Belmont Cragin, Marcela Muñoz, Steppenwolf, Goodman, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Aug 13, 2014
Recommended
It's standing room only at the Chicago Dancing Festival

Tickets are long gone, but you can still watch for free.
- By Jena Cutie
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Chicago Dancing Festival, Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Museum of Contemporary Art, Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park, Dances for 2, Ron De Jesus, Transition Zone, Nexus Project, Benjamin Wardell, Michel Rodriguez Cintra, Salvador Dali, Celebration of Dance, Joffrey Ballet, Twyla Tharp, Nine Sinatra Songs, Hubbard Street, Falling Angels, Third Coast Percussion, Cyclic Connections, After School Matters, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Mar 21, 2014
More thoughts on Resnais, Breaking Bad, surrealism, and "surrealism"

Considering the influence of 20s and 30s surrealism on more recent film and television
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Arts, Television, Film, Surrealism, Alain Resnais, Breaking Bad, Vince Gilligan, Andre Breton, Salvador Dali, Simon of the Desert, Mon Oncle d'Amerique, Same Old Song, First Surrealist Manifesto, automatic writing, Communist Party, Leo Tolstoy, Enemy, Denis Villeneuve, Jose Saramago, The Double, The X-Files

Blogs, Bleader Oct 9, 2012
Video
A recipe for good ideas?

Lessons on half-conscious thoughts from Salvador Dali and Bill Callahan
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Ideas Week, Music, Ideas Week, Variations on a Theme, Salvador Dali, Bill Callahan, Eid Ma Clack Shaw, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 30, 2012
The Weekly Top Five: Debuts

Top Five Debut Films
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, They Live by Night, Nicholas Ray, Rebel Without a Cause, The Great McGinty, Preston Sturges, The Miracle of Morgan Creek, Unfaithfully Yours, Targets, Peter Bogdanovich, Roger Corman, Francis Ford Coppola, Monte Hellman, Jack Hill, Jack Nicholson, Boris Karloff, L'Age D'Or, Luis Bunuel, Salvador Dali, Shadows, John Cassavetes, Bela Tarr, The Family Nest, Kevin Smith, Clerks, Badlands, Roman Polanski, Knife in the Water, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Accatone, Mama Roma, Citizen Kane, Orson Welles, Breathless, Jean-Luc Godard, Sauve qui peut (la vie), Drew Hunt's Weekly Top Five

News & Politics, Media Jan 6, 2000
Artificial Intelligence/Steppenwolf Strikes a Nerve

Media columnist Mike Miner on Y2K and Steppenwolf's 1999 production of Hysteria, a dark farce that raised the issue of "trigger warnings" before the term had come into use
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, Hot Type, Michael Miner, Y2K, A.E. Ayer, Steppenwolf Theatre, Hysteria, Terry Johnson, Sigmund Freud, Martha Lavey, theory of repressed memories, Electra complex, trigger warnings, child sexual abuse, Jeffrey Mallon, Janet Malcolm, Sigmund Freud Archives, John Malkovich, Salvador Dali, Mariann Mayberry, Hedy Weiss, Richard Christiansen, Albert Williams, the New Yorker, Yasen Peyankov, Backstage, sexual hysteria, Michele Volansky

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Dec 9, 1999
Final Analysis

Albert Williams reviews Steppenwolf Theatre's 1999 production of Hysteria, by British playwright Terry Johnson
- By Albert Williams
- Tags: Theater Review, Sigmund Freud, Terry Johnson, Hysteria, Steppenwolf Theatre, Carl Jung, the Holocaust, Freudian theory, Salvador Dali, John Malkovich, Mariann Mayberry, Abraham Yahuda, Moses and Monotheism, Ben Travers, Rookery Nook, Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw, Martha Lavey, Insignificance, Theater Oobleck, Lookingglass Theatre, Alan Wilder, Mark Vann, Yasen Peyankov, David Gropman, Virgil Johnson, Paul Gallo, Richard Woodbury, Roadworks Productions

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Salvador Dali, Craft Beer Week, Carol Burnett, and more things to do in Chicago this week

A Gospel Fest preview, photographer Lynsey Addario, author Gemma Correll, and more happenings from May 16-19

Recommended
There's sadism aplenty in La Casa de Bernarda Alba

Aguijón Theater gives Federico García Lorca's masterpiece a dreamlike staging that's worth the trek.

Recommended
It's standing room only at the Chicago Dancing Festival

Tickets are long gone, but you can still watch for free.

More thoughts on Resnais, Breaking Bad, surrealism, and "surrealism"

Considering the influence of 20s and 30s surrealism on more recent film and television

Video
A recipe for good ideas?

Lessons on half-conscious thoughts from Salvador Dali and Bill Callahan

The Weekly Top Five: Debuts

Top Five Debut Films

Artificial Intelligence/Steppenwolf Strikes a Nerve

Media columnist Mike Miner on Y2K and Steppenwolf's 1999 production of Hysteria, a dark farce that raised the issue of "trigger warnings" before the term had come into use

Final Analysis

Albert Williams reviews Steppenwolf Theatre's 1999 production of Hysteria, by British playwright Terry Johnson

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A Gospel Fest preview, photographer Lynsey Addario, author Gemma Correll, and more happenings from May 16-19

Aguijón Theater gives Federico García Lorca's masterpiece a dreamlike staging that's worth the trek.

Tickets are long gone, but you can still watch for free.

Considering the influence of 20s and 30s surrealism on more recent film and television

Lessons on half-conscious thoughts from Salvador Dali and Bill Callahan

Top Five Debut Films

Media columnist Mike Miner on Y2K and Steppenwolf's 1999 production of Hysteria, a dark farce that raised the issue of "trigger warnings" before the term had come into use

Albert Williams reviews Steppenwolf Theatre's 1999 production of Hysteria, by British playwright Terry Johnson

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