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Music, Gig Poster of the Week Aug 12, 2020
Creative collisions on the gig poster of the week

This week’s featured gig poster was created by artist and performer Cristal Sabbagh with assistance from Natalya Sturlis and Scott Rubin.
- By Salem Collo-Julin
- Tags: Gig Poster of the Week, gig poster, gig poster of the week, dance, improvisation, performance, Elastic Arts, Cristal Sabbagh, livestream, concerts, Angel Bat Dawid, Janice Misurell-Mitchell, Adam Zanolini

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Dec 10, 2019
Darling Shear is ready to fly

The artist’s piece Querida is a personal performance presenting sexuality, sensuality, and healing from trauma.
- By S. Nicole Lane
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Darling Shear, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Querida, In Progress, dance, movement, performance, Audience Architects, Grizzly and Black, Futurehood, Elijah McKinnon, OTV, Jamila Woods

Blogs, Bleader Nov 29, 2017
Links Hall turns trading post for a festival of artistic exchange

Five Chicago-based artists have invited out-of-town guests for a series of joint performances.
- By Oliver Sava
- Tags: Dance, Links Hall, Trade Routes: A Festival of Artistic Exchange, Roell Schmidt, J'Sun Howard, Brother(hood) Dance!, Myra Su, Emily Schubert, National Puppet Slam, dance, performance, puppetry

Best of Chicago, Reasons to love Chicago Jun 23, 2016
Critics' Picks
Comfort Station is a calming cure for Logan Square whiplash

A visit to this longstanding cultural hub is the perfect antidote to overstimulation.
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Reasons to love Chicago, Comfort Station, art space, Logan Square, music, performance, Critics' Picks

Music, Music Feature Mar 17, 2014
Video
Alvin Lucier is sitting in a room (at the MCA)

The composer whose curiosity about acoustic phenomena transformed contemporary classical music comes to Chicago for a historic three-day career retrospective.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music Feature, Alvin Lucier, International Contemporary Ensemble, MCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, composers, Edmonds Dewan, Brandeis University, physicists, brain waves, EEG, performance, acoustics, artists, art, John Cage, David Tudor, Charlotte Moorman, David Berhrman, RIchard Maxfield, Judson Hall, Lafayette Radio, electronics, Jasper Johns, Bob Rauschenberg, Rose Art Museum, Robert Ashley, Lydia Davis, John La Barbara, Video

Arts & Culture, Feature Mar 12, 2014
Chicago League of Lady Arm Wrestlers takes it over the top

Women with a taste for elaborate costumes and a thirst for the theatrical are challenging each other to a test of brute force—for a good cause.
- By Adam Doster
- Tags: Feature, Logan Square Auditorium, Chicago League of Lady Arm Wrestlers, CLLAW, Chi-Quita Flores, Emilia Garcia, Lumberjack Jill, Kelsey Miller, The Rock, Emily Johnson, The Aluminum Monster, Liz Chidester, Macho Ma'am Candy Savage, Kaye Straub, Gorrison Killer, Amelia Buzzell, Rockke L. Squelch, Karie Miller, Buter Her Bluth, arm wrestlers, arm wrestling, Arrested Development, Lindsay Bluth, costumes, Sideshow Theatre Company, Charlottesville, Virginia, Charlottesville Lady Arm Wrestlers, sports, theater, Jeff Ruckes, Jennifer Hoyt Tidwell, art projects, performance, Brian Wimer, documentaries, film, CLAW, Music Box Theatre, Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation, The Spot, improv, Sabrina Pratt, Armageddon, Hillary Rod-Arm Clinton

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Dec 16, 2013
Too Much Light at 25: An oral history

The Neo-Futurists reflect on a quarter century of their forever-running show, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind.
- By Janet Potter
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Neo-Futurists, Neo-Futurarium, oral history, history, ensembles, theater, actors, plays, audiences, performance, Greg Allen, Oberlin College, Phil Auslander, Futurism, experimental theater, Stage Left Theatre, Phil Ridarelli, spontaneity, improvisation, cabaret, scripts, nudity, Chicago Reader, Tony Adler, reviews, King Lear, Gene Dillenburg, Live Bait Theater, John Pierson, auditioning, Bilal Dardai, Megan Mercier, Trevor Dawkins, Kurt Chiang

Arts & Culture, Culture Vultures Oct 2, 2013
Culture Vultures: Illustrator Matthew LaFleur recommends the webcomic Space-Mullet

Plus: Chicago Urban Art Society founders on contemporary art mags and Supernatural Chicago's Neil Tobin on Lisa Alvarado's Still, Life
- Tags: Culture Vultures, Matthew LaFleur, Space-Mullet, webcomics, websites, Supernatural Chicago, Neil Tobin, Lisa Alvarado, Chicago Urban Art Society, Lauren Pacheco, Peter Kepha, Kolaj magazin, Elephant magazine, bookstores, magazines, Kroch's and Brentano's, contemporary art, writing, performance, first-person narratives, illustrators, Daniel Warren Johnson, science fiction

Arts & Culture, Culture Vultures Jul 18, 2013
Culture Vultures: Writer Austin Gilkeson recommends Roxane Gay's Ayiti

Plus: Artist Alexandra Ensign on comics confab Brain Frame and Gonzo Chicago founder John Yingling on T-shirts from Skim Milk
- Tags: Culture Vultures, Austin Gilkeson, books, Roxane Gay, t-shirts, John Yingling, Gonzo Chicago, Skim Milk, Threadless, Designer Drugs, Josh Scholl, Belmont Army, Akira, Kevin Budnik, Brain Frame, Lyra Hill, Alexandra Ensign, comix, performance, Jim Trainor, School of the Art Institute of Chica

Music, Music Feature Jun 13, 2013
A new box set gives experimental composer David Tudor his due

Despite his pioneering work with electronics and indeterminacy, he’s far more obscure than his friend John Cage—in part because he considered his music a living practice rather than something to be documented.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music Feature, John Cage, spatialization, sound, liner notes, live music, David Tudor, piano, pianists, composers, New York School, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, Christian Wolff, graphic notation, indeterminacy, Karlheinz Stockhausen, La Monte Young, Sylvano Bussotti, Stefan Wolpe, interpretation, Black Mountain College, Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, chance, performance, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, scores, recordings, documentation, box sets, CDs, electronic music, experimental music, Irma Wolpe, John Adams, Arnold Schoenberg, Igor Stravinsky, traditional instruments, Pierre Boulez, Matt Rogalsky, Robert Rauschenberg, computer music, neural networks

Blogs, Bleader Aug 3, 2010
8/4 and 8/6 — Free Dance Performances in Welles Park

The Moving Architects perform "Sacred Spaces" at Welles Park on Wed 8/4 and Fri 8/6.
- By Robin Peterson
- Tags: Free Shit, Dance, Swag, The Moving Architects, Sacred Spaces, Welles Park, The Driehaus Foundation, Chicago Presents!, dancing, dance, performance, Lincoln Square

Blogs, Bleader Feb 26, 2010
2/26-2/27 — Free Show and Writing Workshop with Abby Sher

Second City alum and author Abby Sher presents a free performance on Fri 2/26 at 7 PM and free writing workshop Sat 2/27 from noon to 2 PM, both at Flourish Studios.
- By Sam Worley
- Tags: Lit & Lectures, Free Shit, Performing Arts, Arts, Swag, Books, Abby Sher, Second City, Flourish Studios, Erasing the Distance, author, eating disorder, National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, performance, memoir, Amen Amen Amen: Memoir of a Girl Who Couldn't Stop Praying (Among Other Things)

Blogs, Bleader Feb 19, 2010
The Films of Stuart Sherman

25 films by New York performance artist Stuart Sherman screen Sunday 2/21 at The Nightingale.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Stuart Sherman, Robert Beck, Brian Frye, Nightingale, Hopscotch Cinema, Spectacle, New York, performance, conceptual

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Sidebar Dec 24, 2009
Holiday Theater

Shows running through New Year's and beyond
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Christmas, holiday, theater, performance

Arts & Culture, Theater Critic's Choice Aug 18, 2005
Abbie Hoffman Died for Our Sins XVII
- By Albert Williams
- Tags: Theater Critic's Choice, Rich Cotovsky, Daley Plaza, Performance, Woodstock, Commemorative

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Sidebar Mar 17, 2005
What's in It for Us?

Nine Words: "Performance of Sleep in One Long Act Without Intermission"
- By Laura Molzahn
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Performance

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Sidebar Nov 18, 2004
Oh, Grow Up

Youth is wasted on the old un uBung.
- By Laura Molzahn
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Performance

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Sidebar Jun 24, 2004
Differently Abled
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Performance

Arts & Culture, Dance Critic's Choice Jun 10, 2004
Adriana Durant Dance
- By Laura Molzahn
- Tags: Dance Critic's Choice, Ruth Page Center for the Arts, Choreographer, Adriana Durant, Shadow Box, Performance

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Sidebar May 13, 2004
Secret Admirers
- By Justin Hayford
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Performance

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Sidebar Apr 22, 2004
Clowns on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown
- By Jack Helbig
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Performance

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Sidebar Mar 18, 2004
Good Things in Small Spaces
- By Justin Hayford
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Performance

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Sidebar Feb 12, 2004
Problem Artists
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Performance

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Sidebar Aug 14, 2003
The War of All Mothers
- By Justin Hayford
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Performance

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Sidebar Aug 7, 2003
Does She or Doesn't She?
- By Jack Helbig
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Performance

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This week’s featured gig poster was created by artist and performer Cristal Sabbagh with assistance from Natalya Sturlis and Scott Rubin.

The artist’s piece Querida is a personal performance presenting sexuality, sensuality, and healing from trauma.

Five Chicago-based artists have invited out-of-town guests for a series of joint performances.

A visit to this longstanding cultural hub is the perfect antidote to overstimulation.

The composer whose curiosity about acoustic phenomena transformed contemporary classical music comes to Chicago for a historic three-day career retrospective.

Women with a taste for elaborate costumes and a thirst for the theatrical are challenging each other to a test of brute force—for a good cause.

The Neo-Futurists reflect on a quarter century of their forever-running show, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind.

Plus: Chicago Urban Art Society founders on contemporary art mags and Supernatural Chicago's Neil Tobin on Lisa Alvarado's Still, Life

Plus: Artist Alexandra Ensign on comics confab Brain Frame and Gonzo Chicago founder John Yingling on T-shirts from Skim Milk

Despite his pioneering work with electronics and indeterminacy, he’s far more obscure than his friend John Cage—in part because he considered his music a living practice rather than something to be documented.

The Moving Architects perform "Sacred Spaces" at Welles Park on Wed 8/4 and Fri 8/6.

Second City alum and author Abby Sher presents a free performance on Fri 2/26 at 7 PM and free writing workshop Sat 2/27 from noon to 2 PM, both at Flourish Studios.

25 films by New York performance artist Stuart Sherman screen Sunday 2/21 at The Nightingale.

Shows running through New Year's and beyond

Nine Words: "Performance of Sleep in One Long Act Without Intermission"

Youth is wasted on the old un uBung.

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