By Frances Welch
October 5, 2015
It goes without saying that The Canopy Club manages to book and promote a pretty diverse bill of artists each month; some acts are more surprising than others, considering certain artists’ large followings (Young the Giant, Young Thug) and the rather unknown following of Champaign-Urbana (pretty m...
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By Elizabeth Dye
October 22, 2014
Blind Summit Theatre, whose colossal 60-foot tall Voldemort puppet performed at the 2012 London Olympics, has returned to the United States from England with a tour that includes one 2-foot tall, three-man-operated puppet and a table as the prop.
Inspired by both British playwrights and world religion, “The Table...
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By Brittney Nadler
October 2, 2014
What happens when mythmaking collides with reality? That is the ultimate question in “Polaroid Stories,” a play with poetry, profanity and prostitutes that journeys into the lives of street youth on an abandoned pier in the outskirts of town.
Inspired by “Metamorphoses,” a Latin narrative poem, “Pol...
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By Rebecca Jacobs
September 11, 2014
OK Go is not just the band of treadmill guys anymore.
This fall, the band is releasing their fourth album and will be performing at The Canopy Club on Saturday night at 9:30 p.m. Tickets for the show are $15.
Damian Kulash, lead singer and guitarist of OK Go, said he thinks that the band’s treadmill music...
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