Reviews

In its 25th year, CU Ballet and Krannert Center's The Nutcracker continues to dazzle audiences and keep us on the edge of our seats.

Matt attended the Folk and Roots Festival and captured some wonderful video of the event, and interviewed some of the fest organizers.

The Revolutionists is a play that allows women to speak to each other in the fullness of their own actions and ideas.

Drawing from the foundations of life, Meredith Monk and the women of her vocal ensemble, with help from girls in the Central Illinois Youth Chorus, performed her composition Cellular Songs at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts and wove a richly textured experience into a possibility of being.

Jeff reviews U of I grad Robert Bensen's poetry collection, What Lightning Spoke.

John Isberg's 2022 film is a love letter to slasher franchises of the 80s and 90s.

Deeply, viscerally, personal yet provocative and political, Black on Black on Black on Black's call for a revisioning of Black knowledge and production is not to be ignored. 

Performing his recent composition The Future is Unlimited, Always, Jon Mueller weaves textured sounds to create an expansive ambient experience at The Channing Murray Foundation with an improvisation by Luke R. Bergkoetter & Mateo Sanchez 

The Jupiter String Quartet has hit many high notes since arriving in C-U ten years ago. And when the Jupiters don’t get it exactly right, they keep plugging away.