Goodman Theatre 170 N. Dearborn 312-443-3800 goodmantheatre.org
★★★★★★★★★★
170 N. Dearborn St. (Loop)
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Audience Annihilated Part Two: Gold Star Sticker
by Marissa Oberlander on June 25, 2014 at 3:00PM
Dream Theatre Company, 5026 N. Lincoln, 773-552-8616, dreamtheatrecompany.com Already known for thoroughly immersive theater experiences, Dream Theatre sealed its standing with Jeremy Menekseoglu's Halloween show Audience Annihilated Part Two: Gold Star Sticker, the most chillingly horrific 15 minutes I've endured in recent memory.
Mike Nussbaum in Smokefall
by Tony Adler on June 25, 2014 at 3:00PM
Goodman Theatre, 170 N. Dearborn, 312-443-3800, goodmantheatre.org I first saw Mike Nussbaum act nearly 50 years ago, at Hull House Theater in Lakeview.
Port Authority, Hedda Gabler, and The Dance of Death at Writers Theatre
325 Tudor Ct., Glencoe, 847-242-6000, writerstheatre.org Several Chicago-area theater troupes are developing new facilities right now, but nobody's got sexier blueprints than Writers Theatre.
Steppenwolf's Russian Transport
by Kate Schmidt on June 25, 2014 at 3:00PM
Since its release last spring, Daft Punk's megahit "Get Lucky" has been everywhere—on the dance floor, on the radio in the grocery store, on the Grammys (it was named Record of the Year), even on its own line of Durex condoms. This spring Steppenwolf's Russian Transport used it to deliver dread.
Elevator Repair Service's Arguendo
About as far from dry as the live staging of a Supreme Court oral argument could be, Arguendo, presented by New York-based group Elevator Repair Service at the MCA this spring, reached its climax with a lawyer stripping down to his birthday suit. The case?
Den Theatre
by Aimee Levitt on June 25, 2014 at 3:00PM
Yes, yes, we Chicagoans are blessed to live in such a terrific theater town, where you can see something tremendous even in the most humble storefront black box populated with non-Equity actors. But here's the thing about those storefronts: most of them just don't have the budget for comfortable seating.
Striding Lion Performance Groups's Dada Gert
by Jena Cutie on June 25, 2014 at 3:00PM
Striding Lion's Annie Arnoult Beserra can tuck a manifesto into a dance so it's visible just under the surface, like a hand in a hand puppet. In the evening-length Dada Gert, she and her dancers slip into readymade roles—whore, wet nurse, witch, pimp, angel, waiter—and spin them into kaleidoscopic combinations.
Links Hall's Peep Show
Links Hall at Constellation, 3111 N. Western, 773-281-0824, linkshall.org The hottest blind date in dance is the series of unconventional collaborations going on at Links Hall.
Sean Flannery
by Kevin Warwick on June 25, 2014 at 3:00PM
You don't really have a problem if it morphs into a funny story, right? Sean Flannery has long been the local comic embodiment of Alcoholics Anonymous, spewing forth enough anecdotes about his booze-soaked pratfalls to deter even the most red-nosed drinker from ordering another.
Candy Lawrence
by Brianna Wellen on June 25, 2014 at 3:00PM
To call comedian Candy Lawrence a stand-up would be a misnomer. She's more like a run-and-jump-and-dance-up.
The Lincoln Lodge
Open run: Fridays 8 PM, Subterranean, 2011 W. North, thelincolnlodge.com, $10 When the Lincoln Restaurant abruptly shut its doors in December 2013, we didn't lose just the old-school Civil War-themed diner; stand-up showcase the Lincoln Lodge was suddenly without a home, and the 14-year-old institution—which boasts such alumni as Hannibal Buress, Natasha Leggero, and Kyle Kinane—was put in jeopardy.
Nerdette
Thanks to ever-increasing access to technology, the world of podcasting is quickly becoming oversaturated with any and everyone holding opinions and a handy recording device. The ladies of the Nerdette podcast, Tricia Bobeda and Greta Johnsen, stand out amid all the chatter because of their refined radio technique (the two met in the trenches of WBEZ, where Bobeda is a producer) and their uncanny ability to bring out the nerd in everyone: on one episode they discuss science-fiction novels with former NFL punter Chris Kluwe, on another they trade lines from Arrested Development with Denise Kiernan, author of The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II.
Upstairs/Downstairs at the Bijou Theater
by Drew Hunt on June 25, 2014 at 3:00PM
Third Thursday of every month, 8 PM, 1349 N. Wells, 312-943-5397, facebook.com/upstairs.downstairs.54 The notorious Bijou, a gay porn house and sex club around since 1970, is now home to Upstairs/Downstairs, a delightfully eclectic, enlightening, raucous, bizarre, and sexually explicit variety showcase that's been playing the Old Town institution since February.
Young Couple
Granted, this 13-episode venture created by and starring Brandon Ogborn, Brianna Baker, and Mike Malarkey doesn't really bask in its Chicagoness. Its true focus is on newlyweds Chris and Nic, played by Ogborn and Baker respectively, as they comedically and often dramatically navigate the ins and outs of the bedroom, the still-distant prospect of parenthood, and the introduction of an irksome ex-husband (Malarkey) into the couple's still-fresh relationship.
Mike's Pan Tree
by Steve Bogira on June 25, 2014 at 3:00PM
4400 S. Western What would Joyce Kilmer make of the tree on the grassy boulevard in Brighton Park?
"From Heart to Hand: African American Quilts From the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts" at the DePaul Art Museum
by Noah Berlatsky on June 25, 2014 at 3:00PM
DePaul Art Museum, 935 W. Fullerton, 773-325-7506, museums.depaul.edu Steps from the Fullerton el stop, the DePaul Art Museum is comfortably cozy, just two floors, a handful of rooms on each—you can walk through the whole thing in 45 minutes.
Vivian Maier
by Deanna Isaacs on June 25, 2014 at 3:00PM
Current exhibits at Harold Washington Library Center, Chicago History Museum, Art Center Highland Park, College of DuPage, vivianmaier.com, vivianmaier.photography.com Marketing campaigns for dead artists are nothing new—think of all the hoopla for those long-gone French impressionists.
Northwestern University's Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
by Laura Pearson on June 25, 2014 at 3:00PM
Last August at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art, a pipe connected to the sprinkler system burst, showering the main gallery. No art was harmed in the deluge, but the building, designed by Dirk Lohan, sustained enough water damage to require it to reschedule its fall exhibit, "Steichen/Warhol: Picturing Fame," and close its doors till the end of the year.
Wrigley Building
"What's old is new again" has always been a fashion shibboleth, but it sprang to life with the Wrigley Building's recent renovation. The shimmering bright-white landmark, designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White and informed by the Giralda Tower in Seville, became the Mag Mile's first statement piece when William Wrigley Jr.'s team finished the second tower in 1924.
StoryCorps recording booth
Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington, 800-850-4406 (for appointments), storycorps.org/locations/chicago It looks like we'll all be immortal for our Facebook friends, but if you're hankering for an audience that's a little broader, there's StoryCorps: all you have to do is lasso a partner and make an appointment for an audio recording session in the booth now permanently parked in the Chicago Cultural Center.
Zachary Hart Baker's #blackmetalyourface
by Luca Cimarusti on June 25, 2014 at 3:00PM
Is that Nocturo Culto of Darkthrone gracing the B Side of the Reader in full black-metal regalia? No, that's actually little old Lorde—it's just an issue that's passed through the hands of local artist Zachary Hart Baker.
Chicago Humanities Festival
October 25-November 9, chicagohumanities.org In a different sort of world we'd grow up swapping cards with pictures and fun facts about our favorite economists, reading comic books about the adventures of physicists and anthropologists, and hanging up centerfolds of Paris Review interview subjects in our lockers.
The Old Neighborhood by Bill Hillmann
by Jerome Ludwig on June 25, 2014 at 3:00PM
"I didn't want my nose broken. I was the only one of my brothers who hadn't had it broken yet."
Agate Publishing
by Jonathan Messinger on June 25, 2014 at 3:00PM
Chicago's literary scene seems to be in perpetual start-up mode—a constant stream of newly launched reading series, websites, and presses means there's always some fresh blood. Back in 2003, Doug Seibold started Agate Publishing in just this vein, working out of his basement with, as he told the Reader in 2012, "a cell phone, a laptop, and a DSL line" and beginning with African-American fiction and business titles, both fields he'd worked in during his 15 years in local publishing.
Paul Durica
There's plenty of Chicago history shut up in the city's libraries, museums, and archives, but there's also plenty of it sitting out on the streets in plain view. You just need the right guide to show you.
Bridgeport Film Club
Founded by Lance Eliot Adams in 2012, the Bridgeport Film Club is a group of independent producers, directors, editors, and screenwriters who help create and finance each other's movies. Through its Filmmaker Work Exchange program the club offers both established and aspiring artists access to its stable of screenwriters, storyboard artists, and crew members, provided they're willing to get their hands dirty on a fellow member's project in return.
Showplace ICON
Showplace ICON may be my least favorite movie theater in the city. I hate the assigned seating, the faux VIP atmosphere, the way the light from the hallway leaks onto the screen even after the door is closed.
Katie Rife
A long-standing member of the video-art collective Everything Is Terrible!, Katie Rife has great taste in garbage cinema. Last year she programmed the short-lived Wednesday Rewind, a weekly showcase of long-forgotten B and Z movies at the Logan Theatre that drew the kind of rowdy crowds the venue hosted in its grimy heyday.
Chicago Film Archives
by Ben Sachs on June 25, 2014 at 3:00PM
Some programming organizations make you eager to know what they'll show next; the nonprofit Chicago Film Archives makes you just as eager to know where they'll show next. In the last several months CFA has presented films (often on celluloid) all over town, from Comfort Station in Logan Square to Black Cinema House in South Shore to Constellation in Roscoe Village to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Streeterville.
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