By Fran Zell Have you been unable to get out of bed any days lately because the world seems to be dissolving into quicksand under your feet and bed seems to be the safest place […]
By Fran Zell “Hands Up Don’t Shoot.” That’s the emblematic cry born out of nationwide protests following the fatal shooting of 18 year-old Michael Brown Jr. in Ferguson, Missouri, ten years ago now. He was […]
By Fran Zell When I decided to write a documentary play about the harrowing journey that more than half a million asylum seekers have taken from Venezuela to the United States, I reached out to […]
By Fran Zell A bridge, a river and a view figure prominently in Charly Evon Simpson’s Jump presented by Shattered Globe Theatre at Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont through June 1. The bridge is the […]
By Fran Zell Back when Stephen Sondheim turned 70, he reflected in a lengthy New York Times interview about what it meant to him to see the New York premiere of Saturday Night 45 years […]
By Fran Zell Puppets are magical. They take us out of ourselves in order to better see ourselves and the world. They make us think, they make us laugh, open us to the healing possibilities […]
By Fran Zell Joy Snihur Wyatt Laking is wearing her studio clothes —blue jeans speckled with paint and a sturdy sweater —when I arrive at her gallery, a large gracious space adjacent to her royal […]
By Fran Zell There’s an ominous new (to me) parking regulation sign I’ve run across recently on my travels around Chicago. “15 MINUTE STANDING ZONE,” it reads in capital letters at the top. “TOW ZONE,” […]
by Fran Zell Like the celebrated novel it is based on, Middle Passage which opened this week at Chicago’s Lifeline Theatre, is a multi-layered epic adventure that questions the meaning of freedom and the way […]
by Fran Zell An alliance of vibrant musical talent known as the Chicago Cabaret Professionals gave its first live Musical Monday concert since before Covid-19 this past Monday at the city’s Old Town School of […]
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