Chicago,

David Bowie Is, Chicago

'David Bowie Is' exhibit reveals a cultural icon, beyond the pop.

Nancy S. Bishop Art & Architecture September 27, 2014 Chicago,

"David Bowie Is" Chicago Exhibit Reveals a Cultural Icon, Beyond the Pop David Bowie was born September 16, 1965. Actually, that’s the day that 18-year-old David Jones legally assumed the name that became famous. This is one piece of ...

The Whaleship Essex

Shattered Globe Spins Tale of Shipwreck and Survival

Nancy S. Bishop Theater September 8, 2014 Chicago,

  Tales of the whale—the commercial treasure and leviathan of the sea—and the sailors who set out in wooden ships to hunt them, are endlessly fascinating. Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick” stands as one of the great adventure stories of world ...

My Name Is Asher Lev

Timeline Theatre explores the power of art to hurt and to heal 

Nancy S. Bishop Theater September 4, 2014 Chicago,

  Asher Lev is an artist, a round-faced, cherubic artist whose paintings horrify his deeply religious Hasidic parents and community. “My gift is demonic and divine. It has the power to hurt and the power to heal,” he says at ...

Ed Paschke Art Center, Chicago

Ed Paschke’s Art Finds a New Home in His Old Neighborhood

Nancy S. Bishop Art & Architecture August 9, 2014 Chicago,

  The work of a Chicago artist who won national and international fame is settled in at a small museum on the far northwest side of Chicago, the neighborhood where he grew up. Ed Paschke, whose vividly colored and brilliantly ...

The Jungle

Oracle Theatre Transports Us to 1906 Packingtown Chicago

Nancy S. Bishop Theater July 26, 2014 Chicago,

In a space the size of my bedroom, Oracle Theatre slaughters and carves up cattle, fights for workers’ rights, celebrates a wedding, worships at Christmas, and dies in childbirth. And with rolls of paper and paint, they conjure believable scenes ...

The Late Henry Moss

By Sam Shepard

Nancy S. Bishop Theater June 30, 2014 Chicago,

Sam Shepard is known for his in-your-face, verbally and physically violent brawls between brothers or between fathers and sons. His plays like “True West,” “Curse of the Starving Class” and “Buried Child” helped Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company create its reputation ...

Hairy Who & the Chicago Imagists:

The Chicago Art Movement That Offended Almost Everyone

Nancy S. Bishop Film June 19, 2014 Chicago,

Do you remember your first look at the so-called Chicago Imagists in Chicago galleries in the ‘60s and ‘70s? Whether you were on your own or in a stroller pushed by your parents, you surely found the art of the ...

Interview: Seth Bockley, playwright

 On the dark underbelly of our Internet obsessions.

Nancy S. Bishop Features June 6, 2014 Chicago,

    Seth Bockley is a Chicago-based playwright, playwright-in-residence at the Goodman Theatre and author of "Ask Aunt Susan," which opened at the Goodman’s Owen Theatre this week. He has been involved with the Goodman for several years ...

“Ask Aunt Susan”

By Seth Bockley

Nancy S. Bishop Theater June 6, 2014 Chicago,

        Photo by Liz Lauren.     Seth Bockley’s new play, "Ask Aunt Susan," is a smart, funny 90-minute tear through today’s era of digital connections and a"cri de coeur" ...

Chicago Architecture:

A Scavenger Hunt for Visitors, Fans and Obsessives

Nancy S. Bishop Art & Architecture May 31, 2014 Chicago,

  Chicago is known for its iconic classic and contemporary architecture, as well as for its famous and eccentric architects, such as Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Perhaps because of that environment, many Chicagoans are ...