Movies/Theatres

How I Learned to Drive, the winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize, co-winner of both the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and the Lucille Lortel Award for outstanding play, has rolled into The Artistic Home theatre, 1376 W. Grand Ave., as its relevance screams out from current news headlines. 

In your imagination, mix the concepts and actions of privacy, self-worth, identity and awkwardness, then throw in some webcam voyeurism and fast-paced comedy in a smallish black cube space with four "stage" entrances/exits. 

Enveloped in the fog on a desolate Irish bog with a haunting tune playing, the audience is immediately one with Irish playwright Marina Carr's By the Bog of Cats, playing in the intimate The Artistic Home storefront theater

The Mars Assignment opens a window on an issue that everyone deals with in their daily life but rarely talks about,

After Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy spoke her final words Wednesday night in the Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave., the audience gave six-time Joseph Jefferson Award recipient Linda Reiter a standing ovation. 

Rabid Bat Theatricals debuted their The Princess, The Minstrels and The Rabid Bat in three 606 Parks (Walsh, Churchill and Park 567), engaging audiences of all ages with action, fun, charm, wit and imagination in a folktale. 

From the yellowing pages of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's feminist short story, The Yellow Wallpaper, Lorelei Sturm brought to life a thought provoking story, using monologue, dialogue, performance movement and "off stage" audio narration. Opened Sunday, Aug.

NBC (National Broadcasting Company) announced that they are renewing both Chicago Fire and Chicago PD for another season, meaning that Bucktown streets will continue to see film crews. 

"One Earth…Our Earth!" is the theme for the 3rd Annual One Earth Film Festival  Mar. 7-9, 2014, which has a submission deadline of Jan. 12, 2014, for videos.  Young filmmakers' entries will be divided into four age ranges. 

Contests may be individuals or groups. There is no limit to the number of people in a group. The age ranges are: