“The house of cards goes up in flames”: “Chiang kai-check” weaves web of history and memory
Wes theater got off to a running start on Thursday with a performance of Charles Mee’s Chiang Kai-Chek. Lily Whitsitt ...
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American Brass Quintet plays music of past and present
The words "brass quintet" don’t usually evoke excitement, but there was no other word for the anticipation zinging through the ...
Local cinema options abound
The recent scare surrounding the film industry’s box office slump has somewhat subsided, but it is hard to ignore the ...
Film Serious: “I Am The Video World Made Flesh”
David Lynch spoke at Yale this week. "Oh that's so chill! I wonder if he talked about Dune." No. Yale ...
Cohen quartet fuses jazz with electric guitar and avant garde
As the melodica player broke into his dance, the electric guitar wailed and the drummer brushed the drum set with ...
Singers bring local composer, spirit of Christmas to Crowell
A rich tenor voice, at once solitary and tragically beautiful, floated through the rafters of Crowell Concert Hall last Saturday ...
Film Serious: If I was a rock band, I would break up with myself
“END OF THE CENTURY” FRIDAY 9/30 8 p.m. Since Joey Ramone died, it has been up to me to carry ...
Dorfman Dance troupe explores personal and global territory
Biblical texts were as good as weapons in the last piece of the David Dorfman Dance performance at the CFA ...
The Mee Two: Three student directors take on two plays by American playwright
Though the theater calendar has room for everything from musicals to one-woman shows, a theme seems to be developing this ...
Chicago’s NeoFuturists put on A.D.D.-friendly show
The Neo-Futurists are the rare troupe of actors that commands a cult following by not, in any conventional sense, acting. ...