Mar 1, 2024 | Airness, Articles, Press
By LUKE TAYLOR | March 1, 2024 photo courtesy of Illinois Theatre CHAMPAIGN — The inside of Fat City Bar may look like it’s been set up for a concert this weekend, but something is missing: guitars. The colorful lights and speakers all suggest a rock show underway,...
Mar 1, 2024 | Airness, Articles, Press
Running from March 21st-30th, 2024, at Randall Theater. By: Chloe Rabinowitz | Mar. 01, 2024 What does it mean to really (truly) rock? It’s shred or be shredded in this exuberant, hilarious and totally sweet power-chord swelling comedy/drama about the incredible...
Feb 21, 2024 | Airness, Articles, Press
BY JODI HECKEL | ARTS AND HUMANITIES EDITOR | February 21, 2024 CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A group of nerds playing air guitar competes in bars across the country, seeking the pinnacle of self-expression that the competitors call “airness.” A play of the same name follows...
Oct 10, 2023 | Articles, Press, The Kilroys
New Plays don’t get made in a vacuum, and with The Web, The Kilroys are celebrating the whole ecosystem that brings them to life. By: Stephi Wild | Oct. 10, 2023 all portraits by Vexx Daniel Continuing to mobilize and leverage their own power to support and...
Apr 14, 2023 | Airness, Articles, Press
by John Olson | April 13, 2023 As a certain song popularized by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts in 1981 suggests, who doesn’t love rock “n roll and at times fantasize about themselves as a rock star? Many of those who can’t fight that feeling anymore...
Jan 18, 2023 | Airness, Articles, Press
By Mike Fischer | January 18, 2023 tickets here Learning How to Play The legion of happy souls out there playing air guitar – c’mon, you know who you are – give voice to feelings for which we have no words. Air guitar is both irresistible and cause for embarrassment,...
Sep 26, 2022 | Airness, Articles, Press
BY ROBIN MILLER, STAFF WRITER | September 23, 2022 The cast of LSU Theatre’s ‘Airness,’ top row, from left, are Ryan Bailey as Shreddy Eddy, Ira Anderson as Golden Thunder, Matt Burns as Facebender and Masen Keltner as D Vicous; bottom row, Jackie...
May 16, 2022 | Airness, Articles, Press
by Pat Sackett | May 16, 2022 Back in 2017 a group of us from the Twin Cities went to the Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville, KY, searching for new works to produce at Park Square. We’ve seen other great plays there that were later produced at Park...
May 15, 2022 | Articles, Press, Reviews, The Upstairs Department
The very best of these, ‘John Proctor Is the Villain’ at Studio Theatre, is nothing less than revelatory by Peter Marks | May 20, 2022 From left, Migs Govea, Paola Lázaro and Justin Weaks in “There’s Always the Hudson” at Woolly Mammoth Theatre. (Teresa...
Apr 26, 2022 | Articles, Press, The Upstairs Department
The Tony-winning regional theatre presents the play about a young man who survives a serious illness to find he may now have supernatural powers. BY LEAH PUTNAM photo credit: Christopher Mueller The world premiere of Chelsea Marcantel’s The Upstairs...
