‘Rent’ embodies societal issues at State Farm Center
By Elizabeth Sayasane, Contributing writer
October 12, 2017
Twenty years after revolutionizing Broadway, Jonathan Larson’s "Rent" visited the State Farm Center. The musical filled the stage with passion as members of the show shared the story of impoverished New Yorkers searching for a silver lining, attempting to find community and purpose in a city trying to leave...
Budget impasse hits Parkland College
By Ashni Ghandi
March 9, 2016
The state budget impasse is proving increasingly troublesome for the Parkland College faculty, staff and student body, and the college's theater department may be experiencing the negative effects first.With $566,989 cut from the budget and 46 faculty positions eliminated, Parkland has been forced to el...
Box Office Report: “John Wick”
October 30, 2014
My thought process walking out (or escaping) the theater was to label “John Wick” as either bad or really bad depending on how pissed off traffic made me on the ride home. And I will say that I hit more red lights than I intended to. The film concerns a retired hit man played by Keanu Reeves, who bre...
The Art Theater Co-op hosts inaugural Dance Film Festival
By Alexander Vassiliadis
September 17, 2014
A theater has a wide variety of purposes. From movies to gatherings, certain theaters specialize in showing different types of art, and for The Art Theater Co-op, a combination of dance and film took place at the downtown Champaign venue. For the first time in its history, The Art Theater Co-op, locat...
Circa’s stocking overflows in new show
By David Burke of the Quad-City Times
November 19, 2009
Circa ’21 Dinner Playhouse is offering a huge buffet, overflowing with delicious favorites just in time for the holidays. And there’s food, too. Circa’s holiday revue, “Holly Jolly Christmas,” is a performance smorgasbord, numbering about 40 different songs (not to mention six to eight more ...
