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Nerds Gone Wild: The Striking Success of Geek Girl Burlesque

By Zach Freeman The success of Geek Girl Burlesque at Gorilla Tango Theatre over the past year is impressive by any stretch of the imagination. In October of 2010, “Boobs and Goombas: A Super Mario...

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Merry Christmas, Mr. Potter! Actor John Mohrlein on playing the villain in...

By Patrick Roberts Actor John Mohrlein is, by all appearances, a gentle man. His red-frame glasses and black derby hat tell me that. His charming laugh confirms it. Really, it’s more like a giggle that...

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Bumppo Road: Catching Up With the Unexpected Artistic Director Nick Sandys

When Timothy Douglas resigned midway through his first season as Remy Bumppo Theatre’s artistic director, Nick Sandys stepped up to fill the role. Sandys had already been an Artistic Associate, helping...

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Method or Madness? (re)discover theatre commences its classical mission with...

Chicago’s bustling theater scene might seem already saturated with companies, but the newly founded (re)discover theatre hopes their specific angle will help them find a bit of room in the city: Their...

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The Jackie Taylor Story: How a Girl from the Projects Grew Up and Made Her...

By Marla Seidell It’s 6:30 in the morning, and Jackie Taylor is a bundle of high energy and vibrancy. She greets me with a friendly, “Hi sweetheart!” at the newly built Black Ensemble Theater, a...

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Nordic and Naked: Akvavit Theatre Brings Cutting-Edge Finnish Theater to...

“As I was taking a shit just now, I suddenly realized that this can’t be just a coincidence that I’m sitting here taking a shit and at the same time thinking about it.”—The first line of “Kokkola” In...

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Mark Cuban’s Monkey Business: Impress These Apes and Win a (Very Small) Piece...

By Zach Freeman Mark Cuban has a lot of money. You probably knew that. But did you know that he wants to give some of that money ($1,000 to be exact) to the Chicago performer who can out-comedy seven...

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Perfect Vision: The Choreographic Genius of Hubbard Street Dance’s Alejandro...

By Sharon Hoyer I met Alejandro Cerrudo for dinner on a Monday evening after a particularly challenging day in the studio. He is tall, boyishly slim with a warm, likeable manner, just the right amount...

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The Play is the Sing: Steppenwolf’s James Vincent Meredith Gets Musical in...

By Dennis Polkow If Chicago actor James Vincent Meredith looks familiar, he has been a fixture on Chicago stages for years. But even those who have not caught his distinctive performances across the...

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To Sleep Perchance to Dream: The immersive world of Dream Theatre Company’s...

By Zach Freeman “We’re out on the fringe,” says Jeremy Menekseoglu, artistic director of Dream Theatre Company, sipping a beer in the brightly lit underground area of Sakura Karaoke Lounge in...

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Untitled Article: Young Jean Lee’s Latest Show Plays the MCA

By Zach Freeman As a twenty-six-year old graduate student studying Shakespeare at Berkeley and working on her dissertation, a frustrated Young Jean Lee, fed up with academia, went to a therapist for...

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Poor Jud Is Alive and Well and Doing Parkour: David Adam Moore Stars In Lyric...

By Johnny Oleksinski David Adam Moore is an anomaly in the cast of Lyric Opera’s upcoming production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!” A baritone who performs regularly with companies around the...

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Full Nelson: The Singular Intensity of Michael Shannon

By Brian Hieggelke The Untitled Michael Shannon Profile, Pre-Production Notes When he gets the email from A Red Orchid Theatre’s publicist that Michael Shannon is available to do a cover story, the...

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Improvised Advice: Switch Committee Recommends Jumping Off a Cliff

By, Joshua C. Robinson Switch Committee—David Schwartzbaum, Ryan Nallen, Alan Linic, Dave Karasik and Collin Dahlgren, best friends and iO Chicago graduates—perform their own version of the venerated...

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Big Bouffonery: Chicago Contemporary Circus Festival Balances Art and...

By Robert Eric Shoemaker The release reads, “First of its kind in the U.S., the 2014 Chicago Contemporary Circus Festival brings shows from around the world together January 6th through 12th.” If, like...

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Ride On: Puppet Bike Celebrates a Decade on the Streets of Chicago

By Suzanne Karr Schmidt As a relatively recent Midwesterner, I associate Chicago with outdoor festivals, pop-up art shows and street theater. And while the Berghoff’s Oktoberfest and the...

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Geeking Out: Chicago Nerd Comedy Festival Enters its Second Year

By Raymond Rehayem Back in the cathode ray days of my pre-HD childhood, when my father bemoaned my obscure taste in comic books (“What are the X-Men? Why can’t you like something popular like...

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Sex on the Brain: Playwright David Ives Riffs on Goodman’s “Venus in Fur”

By Raymond Rehayem “I like to leave a play behind,” says playwright David Ives. “This play feels very old to me. It’s like four plays ago already.” The play in question is Ives’ “Venus In Fur” and the...

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30 Plays, 60 Minutes, 25 Years: A Quarter Century of “Too Much Light Makes...

By Hugh Iglarsh “What are the hallmarks of American culture that are also typical of ADD? The fast pace. The sound bite. The bottom line. Short takes, quick cuts … High stimulation. Restlessness …...

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Family Matters: Chicago Connections Within Lyric Opera’s “The Sound of Music”

By Aaron Hunt In her autobiography, “The Story of the Trapp Family Singers,” Maria von Trapp wrote of her confusion when the Mother Abbess of Nonnberg Abbey encouraged her to forsake her aspirations to...

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