Bank of America Theatre 18 W. Monroe 312-902-1400 chicago-theater.com/theaters/bank-of-america-theater
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18 W. Monroe St. (Loop)
The Book of Mormon
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Jersey Boys
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on June 20, 2013 at 4:00AM
Performance penthouse
by Aimee Levitt on June 20, 2013 at 4:00AM
You may not think a university best known for its philosophers, physicists, and economists would need one of the most spectacular arts venues in the city. But why wouldn't it want one?
Lisa Marie Varon
by Laura Molzahn on June 20, 2013 at 4:00AM
reallisamarie.com If you can execute a moonsault, hip-hop will be a snap, of course.
Links Hall
by Deanna Isaacs on June 20, 2013 at 4:00AM
OK, let's make this clear: Links Hall, 35-year-old hothouse for some of the city's most innovative dance and performing art, is no longer at Links Hall, the Wrigleyville building that was its longtime home. This spring the organization signed a ten-year lease with musician and producer Mike Reed, and now makes its home at Constellation, otherwise known as the former Viaduct Theater, at 3111 N. Western.
Blushing Poppy Productions
blushingpoppy.org To some folks—like the lunkheads who scorn men in tights but couldn't do a barrel turn if their lives depended on it—all dance is weird.
Dean Evans
by Dan Jakes on June 20, 2013 at 4:00AM
Discovering you're at a show that involves audience participation can provoke a state of anxiety comparable to being pushed onstage at a karaoke bar. Dean Evans's alter ego revels in that.
Dale Calandra, The Whale
by Tony Adler on June 20, 2013 at 4:00AM
Dale Calandra has some experience with padding, having played Edna Turnblad, the jolly fat mommy in the musical stage version of Hairspray. And I guess he's had some experience with overeating, too, since he claims to have been paid for his first acting gig—a McDonald's commercial—in hamburgers.
Hans Fleischmann
by Justin Hayford on June 20, 2013 at 4:00AM
The Glass Menagerie, Mary-Arrchie Theatre Co. To prepare for his role as Tom, narrator and errant son in Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie, Hans Fleischmann spent more than a year doing nothing—at least when it came to cutting his hair.
Dawn, Quixote
by Tony Adler on June 19, 2013 at 12:40PM
The Building Stage Blake Montgomery was the heart and soul of the Building Stage, and Blake Montgomery decided to move on to other things.
Adam Poss
Last summer Adam Poss contributed mightily to the general greatness of Victory Gardens Theater's barrio-gritty Oedipus el Rey, with an intense turn in the title role. About seven months later he was scary charming as the manipulative gay editor of a college newspaper in Goodman Theatre's Teddy Ferrara.
Sitting next to Rahm Emanuel and his son, and in front of Trey Parker and Matt Stone
by Tal Rosenberg on June 20, 2013 at 4:00AM
The Book of Mormon Through 10/6: Tue-Fri 7:30 PM, Sat 2 and 8 PM, Sun 2 and 7:30 PM, Bank of America Theatre, 312-902-1400, broadwayinchicago.org, $65-$125.
Mike Tyson's The Undisputed Truth
Savage brawler, ear eater, and convicted rapist Mike Tyson, alone onstage, attempting to repackage himself in the two-hour, Spike Lee-directed reminiscence Mike Tyson: The Undisputed Truth. Tyson pranced.
Alana Arenas, Head of Passes
steppenwolf.org Tarell Alvin McCraney's Head of Passes was a majestic mess when it premiered at Steppenwolf Theatre in April.
Claire Molek
Brave New Art World, bravenewartworld.com The art world can seem like an intimidating place.
The chicken-in-action minimurals beneath the Bloomingdale Trail bridge
by Leor Galil on June 20, 2013 at 4:00AM
Why did the chicken cross the road? Why didn't it, say, try its hand at showbiz, take a nap, or get an X-ray?
Museum of Contemporary Art
by Sam Worley on June 20, 2013 at 4:00AM
I still haven't quite gotten over "This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s," a blockbuster of an exhibition curated by Helen Molesworth that was on display last year at the Museum of Contemporary Art. It was beautiful and moving, sure, but it was also the thing you hated most about museums as a kid: it was educational, highlighting the radical, tragic beauty of AIDS-era queer activism that gay rights groups today are largely content to forget.
Everyone's Scared by Hebru Brantley
by Mara Shalhoup on June 20, 2013 at 4:00AM
You're at Art Basel. You're a megamillionaire rap mogul.
Comfort Station
Anyone passing through Logan Square has likely noticed the small brick building on the corner of Milwaukee and Logan and wondered, What the hell is that? Constructed in the early 20th century as a shelter for trolley passengers, the building eventually fell into the somewhat ignoble role of storage shed for the city's lawn equipment.
Basement of the Oriental Institute
It's unclear whether any of the early field researchers at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute were the inspiration for Indiana Jones. Archival photos show that they traveled widely in the Middle East and Asia and wore lots of khaki and broad-brimmed hats.
Pullman
Like bison in Yellowstone, architecture is what draws outsiders to Pullman—of the 900 or so brick homes that old George P. built for his railroad town, almost all remain standing in what's today a quiet, bucolic little neighborhood. This spring the National Park Service was investigating the idea of turning Pullman into a national park, which would make it the second in Illinois, after Abraham Lincoln's home in Springfield.
Open House Chicago
Chicago Architecture Foundation, openhousechicago.org The Chicago Architecture Foundation's Open House Chicago weekend, set for October 19 and 20 this year, offers an inside look at some of the city's most fascinating structures, many of them usually off-limits to the public.
Pritzker Pavilion
by Kevin Warwick on June 20, 2013 at 4:00AM
It starts with the Bean, really. If it weren't for the obligation to haul out-of-town visitors to Millennium Park so they can gawk at fun-house-mirror versions of themselves and the surrounding downtown, I wouldn't have the opportunity to lead them ten yards east to the Jay Pritzker Pavilion, place my elbow on its western sill, and act like I know what's what about the outdoor venue's state-of-the-art acoustics system.
Good Kings Bad Kings by Susan Nussbaum
Last month I wrote a profile of Susan Nussbaum, a longtime Chicago playwright and disability rights activist who'd just released her first book. That she left the theater was a bit of a bummer—it stemmed from her frustration at failing to get her last and, in her view, her best play produced—but she followed it up with a respectable enough second act: Good Kings Bad Kings, a moving, creatively structured novel about a group of disabled kids trapped in a state-run institution.
Building Stories by Chris Ware
by Jerome Ludwig on June 20, 2013 at 4:00AM
The box containing Oak Park-based comics auteur Chris Ware's Building Stories (Pantheon) is so gorgeous that you may be tempted to leave it in the shrink-wrap to preserve its pristine collectability. But don't deny yourself the visual and literary pleasures contained within.
Charles J. Saporito
by Luca Cimarusti on June 20, 2013 at 4:00AM
Burke's Web Pub, 2026 W. Webster, 773-276-3411 Behind the bar of Burke's Web Pub, he's Charlie—a smiley, upbeat, tolerant bartender.
Office Girl by Joe Meno
by Shannon Nico Shreibak on June 20, 2013 at 4:00AM
Joe Meno has a way of capturing, in Polaroid moments, the unexplainable allure of the Second City. Hometown pride pulsed throughout 2004's Hairstyles of the Damned, and again last year through Office Girl (Akashic Books), a novel that ping-pongs around the various landmarks, topics, and minutiae of the urban mosaic that Meno is so skilled at representing.
Anthony Madrid
by Jena Cutie on June 20, 2013 at 4:00AM
If the days of bashful, taciturn poets are numbered, Chicago poet Anthony Madrid sure has the shtick to prove it. He strikes a lofty pose, flicks open his first book, I Am Your Slave Now Do What I Say (2012), and begins his weirdo routine.
The Massacre and Music Box of Horrors
by J.R. Jones on June 20, 2013 at 4:00AM
facebook.com/moviessidefilmfestival musicboxtheatre.com Neither Music Box nor Movieside Film Festival will comment on why they ended their seven-year partnership presenting the annual Music Box Massacre, a wildly popular 24-hour horror marathon in the weeks leading up to Halloween.
"Pierre Etaix: The Lost Laugh"
Gene Siskel Film Center, siskelfilmcenter.org Apologies to Jacqueline Stewart of Northwestern University—whose six-week series "L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema" spanned the north and south sides and brought numerous pioneering black filmmakers to Chicago—but the best retrospective of the past year was Gene Siskel Film Center's eye-opening series on the forgotten French comedian Pierre Etaix.
Taco Cinematheque
by Drew Hunt on June 20, 2013 at 4:00AM
Located in Tacos Garcia, a nondescript Logan Square taqueria whose walls are adorned with vintage movie posters, this new film series was founded on the simple but inspired notion that people love movies, and people love tacos—why not bring the two together? Created by Amir George of Cinema Culture, Taco Cinematheque is a bimonthly event specializing in local experimental film and video; the first edition featured Lindsay Denniberg's Video Diary of a Lost Girl, which premiered at last year's Chicago Underground Film Festival.
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