Stage
Making house a home
A sonic blend of jazz, funk, blues, disco, soul and New Wave, the house music celebrated by the women of Honey Pot Performance is not the heavily-digitized music we think of today. Their inaugural show at the Experimental Station at 61st and Blackstone last Thursday attempted to recreate the energy and intimacy of the... »
Chic chicas
The Zhou B Art Center in Bridgeport bustled with activity during Thursday’s Latino Fashion Week event. Patrons, vendors, and participants moved through the front hall of the center, which was filled to the brim with tables lined with bright signs and colorful clothing. »
Act II
While the group’s mission has not waivered since it was founded in 1971, eta’s leadership is currently going through a major transition. The foundation’s long-time president and co-founder, Abena Joan Brown, stepped down this past March, on the 40th anniversary of the opening of the theater. She passed the reins to Philip Thomas, a... »
Nightmare Theatre
Dream Theatre’s Halloween-inspired production, “Audience Annihilated: Women Only Train”—a powerful and surreal theatrical experience that’s part psychological thriller, part horror film, and part haunted house, was performed five times a night for the ten nights leading up to Halloween, each cycle welcoming an audience of four people at maximum. »
Floating the Dope
Veteran radio journalist Victoria Lautman is no stranger to the drawn-out pleasures of the symposium. She’s the Chicago Humanities Festival’s go-to interviewer and has recorded tete-a-tetes with literary bigwigs like Junot Diaz, Edwidge Danticat, and Martin Amis. Nevertheless, before sitting down with Amitav Ghosh last Sunday, she confessed to a full house at Mandel... »
Night of the lifeless dead
Theater-Hikes’ open-air production of “Night of the Living Dead,” which ran last weekend in Hyde Park on a patch of land on the southwest corner of 58th Street and Woodlawn Avenue, could have used a little more chaos and a lot more gore. »
A New Song
The flashing disco lights signal that a musical performance is about to begin. An artist picks up the mic, singing one of his old Mexican favorites, barely even looking at the screen for the correct lyrics. And this tradition is part of a larger project, called the People’s Stage. »
Equal opportunity offender
Comedy is like sex” began South African standup comedian Trevor Noah. This opening line from last Thursday’s event, which was sponsored by the UofC’s Students Promoting Interracial Networks and the African-Caribbean Students’ Association, earned both gasps and chuckles. »
