Chicago,

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 ...

M. Butterfly

By David Henry Hwang
Directed by Charles Newell
Court Theatre, Chicago
May 17--June 8, 2014

Nancy S. Bishop Theater May 31, 2014 Chicago,

Court Theatre is staging its new production of David Henry Hwang's 1988 hit play, M. Butterfly, in Hyde Park. The powerful and tragic story is always fascinating but Court's production on opening night did not flow as smoothly as most shows by ...

Hubbard Street Dance, Chicago

Alyssa Schoeneman Dance October 20, 2011 Chicago,

Hubbard Street dancers (from left) David Schultz, Jesse Bechard and Meredith Dincolo in "Scarlatti" by Twyla TharpPhoto by Todd Rosenberg Hubbard Street Dance Chicago - Fall Series Works by Twyla Tharp, Nacho Duato and Johan Inger Harris Theater, ...