Even before late May, I heard that Lifeline Theatre,a respected theater in the Chicago's Rogers Park neighorhood was putting on a play adaptation of officialgaiman's Neverwhere. But thanks to a post on rowandoll's Facebook wall, I found out that they were running a photo contest to go along with it. Since the original TV mini-series was set in the secret world beneath ( Read more... )

Last week, Chicago Reader released a long, in-depth expose that made a strong case that Darrell W. Cox, the artistic director at Uptown-based Profiles theater, had a history of physically and psychologically abusing women who worked for him. The theater made its reputation with dark, gritty and violent plays, so I suppose it wasn't that shocking ( Read more... )

This bit of news originally came from Kazakhstan’s Express K Russian-language newspaper, with Lenta.ru, the Russian online news site, adding some context. So I’m going to crib from both articles.

The gist of the story is this. A Kazakh couple from the city of Astana, who perform under the aliases Rebekka and Uragan (Hurricane), decided to open the ( Read more... )

My mom has asked me to review Thinner Than Water, a play that's currently being performed at Jefferson Park's Gift Theatre. We were originally supposed to see the play together, but my mom wound up not going because of other commitments. I wound up having commitments of my own that day, but they wrapped up early enough for me to actually attend the ( Read more... )