08/15/08

Fox News

Grounded in Fiction
The Chicago Air & Water Show dominates the skies this weekend, but there's plenty to see at street level—for starters, a couple of theatre adaptations by local lit stars. Elizabeth Berg—she of New York Times best-seller list fame, who has been touted by everyone from Oprah to the American Library Association—has adapted her...

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08/08/08

Mod Hot Weekend

Splash HitThe dog days of August are so miserable, even local theatre is looking for a way to cool off. Fake Lake, a site-specific play from the The Neo-Futurists, uses the Welles Park Swimming Pool (2333 W. Sunnyside; 773-275-5255) as a stand-in for Utah’s Lake Powell, the backdrop for this coming-of-age...

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08/01/08

Gone Fishing

Catch of the Day
There are other summer rituals besides Lollapalooza to check out this weekend—mercifully, many of the air-conditioned sort. For starters, Friday marks the beginning of the Fillet of Solo Festival, Live Bait Theater’s annual roundup of one-man and one-woman performances...

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07/25/08

Hip-Hopera

People’s Choice
Kevin Coval—the charismatic Def Poetry vet, cofounder of the teen poetry festival Louder Than a Bomb, and (ahem) recently featured Chicago single—performs selections from his latest book of poetry, Everyday People, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 31st and Friday, August 1st at...

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07/18/08

The Parent Trap

Everyone Prefers Blondes
The camera loved her; men swooned for her; and ladies are still mimicking her iconic style. Life as a Legend: Marilyn Monroe traces the definitive blonde bombshell from Norma Jean to screen queen in an exhibition of 300 Marilyn-centric works by more than 80 artists and photographers, including...

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07/11/08

Francophone Call

It’s Quebec versus France in a battle royale of weekend whimsy: While Canada’s Cirque du Soleil continues to camp out in the parking lot of the United Center, Paris’s Compagnie Transe Express stakes out some prime lakefront airspace. In the latter’s free spectacle, Maudits Sonnants: Celestial Carillon, performers suspend themselves...

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07/03/08

Patriot Games

Yankee Doodle Daughter
Hillary Clinton won’t be the next female president, via this election cycle anyway, but the new documentary What’s Your Point, Honey? aims to figure out who might bring a little ...

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06/27/08

Holding Out for a Hero

Take that, Dark Knight. Chicago Tap Theatre presents a superheroine with sass and mad tap-dance skills in The Hourglass and the Poisoned Pen. Co-created by CTT artistic director Mark Yonally and comic book artist Andrew Pepoy, whose work includes inking the likes of Batman and X-Men, the show blends opera and...

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06/20/08

Crush Course

Jonesing for the Indies?

It’s summer’s other type of indie film—you know, without an aging moviestar-as-archeologist limping through feats of derring-do. The second annual Gen Art Film Festival, offering five nights of independent flicks and afterparties, kicks off at 7:30 p.m. Monday the 23rd with Bart Got a Room, a coming-of-age story about two...

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06/13/08

Afternoon Delight

1,001: A Chicago Odyssey
Ben Hecht’s screenplay The Front Page has launched a remarkable four incarnations to date, including the 1940 Cary Grant/Rosalind Russell classic, His Girl Friday, so it seemed likely his work had some legs left yet. Another item from Hecht’s oeuvre that’s even more beloved...

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