Question: What do you get when you screen a film about a Humboldt Park kickball league, shot in part in local bars, at the Portage Theater, the proud new owner of a liquor license? Answer: fire twirlers, a marching band, go-go dancers, and lots of drinking. We sent our photographer to the premiere of Left Field Thursday. Browse our photos…
Anna Davlantes creates a talk show with an unlikely angle: the opinions of ordinary Chicagoans.
An avant-garde rocker with a Joni Mitchell sound
The successful black playwright shares a secret—namely, her white Russian muse
“Free” jazz pioneer Fred Anderson turns 80 in March, and the five-day celebration at his club, the Velvet Lounge, begins…
A little boom amid bust
Rouw siert Electra (Mourning
Becomes Electra)
Eugene O’Neill’s take on the Oresteia trilogy (a.k.a. the House of Epic Dysfunction, wherein son loves mother, murders father; wife murders husband, is avenged by children; and so on) is stripped down to its primal essence by the renowned Toneelgroep Amsterdam. Raw, merciless, and pungent with sexuality, this production incorporates TV, video, and plenty of nudity. In Dutch with English supertitles.
The new Field Museum exhibition, Real Pirates, gives us the lowdown on the golden years of the 1700s.
We pit three large-ensemble jazz bands in a Chicago versus Chicago versus New York face-off
while idiling on the Kennedy
