“Eyeth—get it? In the Deaf storytelling tradition, utopia is called Eyeth because it’s a society that centers the eye, not…
Since January 2020, vocalist Julian Otis and Elastic Arts executive director Adam Zanolini have programmed AfriClassical Futures, a series offering…
Q: I’m a straight guy, married to a straight woman for 15 years. Several years back, I opened up to…
Credit: Coco Picard In a new exhibition, longtime collaborators Dutes Miller and Stan Shellabarger created an immersive multimedia installation that…
For Chicago-based director Donterrio, the late-00s musical Passing Strange represents a road map for how an artist—no matter the medium…
Editor’s note: Chicago playwright, novelist, actor, director, and disability rights activist Susan Nussbaum died April 28 of pneumonia at 68.…
Walking down North Avenue with his bulky Home Depot purchases in tow, George Blakemore sparkled in a glistening metallic-toned ensemble…
As a child I hated subtitles. The words constantly multiplying and changing on the bottom of TV screens distracted me…
“Candyman. Candyman. Candyman. Candyman. Candyman.” The repetition is a summoning spell which repeats the past in the present. Horror is…
Several decades after the metamorphic transition from silent to sound, a 1981 article in the New York Times observed that…