It’s helped produce comedy giants like John Belushi, Jane Lynch, Joan Rivers and Steve Carrell.
Part theater, part training center and part comedy club, The Second City is the most famous comedy site in the world. Pay a visit to the famed Second City Theater Chicago, and you’ll hear sounds of a different kind: laughter. Operating as a non-profit, Steppenwolf relies on community support to bring plays, performances, readings and other events to the stage every year. In the mid-1970s, they started performing in the basement of a Highland Park church, and the Steppenwolf Theatre Company was born.įorty years later, the company has become the nation’s premier ensemble theater and includes 47 members representing actors, directors and playwrights.
FINDY PERISCOPE ARCHIVE
The Archive will feature Terkel’s interviews with jazz, blues and folk musicians, novelists, scientists, activists and more, all originally guests on Terkel’s daily radio show, which ran from 1952 to 1997 on WFMT.īefore they were household Hollywood names, Jeff Perry, Terry Kinney and Gary Sinise were just college friends. The WFMT Radio Network, in conjunction with the Studs Terkel Center for Oral History Museum and other partners, is creating an online Studs Terkel Radio Archive. His work, including recordings of his radio show and his engaging and historically significant oral histories of ordinary Americans, were largely inaccessible, until now. Louis “Studs” Terkel was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, historian, actor, broadcaster and Chicagoan. Many people are familiar with WBEZ thanks to notable national programs like “ All Things Considered,” “ Morning Edition” or “ A Prairie Home Companion” and from WBEZ-produced podcasts like “ This American Life” and “ Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!”
Today, the station (located at Navy Pier) and its parent company are known as Chicago Public Media. One of the country’s most well-known public radio stations, WBEZ Chicago, went on the air in 1943, broadcasting instructional programming for Chicago’s Public Schools. The studio is available for tours and open to all freelance artists for booking. Electrical Audio is Albini’s recording complex, complete with two studios featuring adobe walls, musical instruments, an isolation room, amplifiers and cabinets. Northwestern University grad, legendary musician and sound engineer, Steve Albini, has worked with many artists, including Nirvana and The Pixies. Periscope’s clients include Showtime, Universal, CNN and WB. With six studios and live recording spaces, Periscope offers a variety of sound services, from mixing and mastering to music recording and sound design. Here you’ll find Periscope, Chicago’s one-stop shop for post-production in film and TV. Students in the SAI program can attend workshops and installations by sound artists at the ESS, or rent studio time to use the studio’s state-of-the-art facilities.Ĭinespace Chicago Film Studios sits on the west side of downtown Chicago.
Founded in 1986, the ESS is more than a sound space – it’s a nonprofit organization dedicated to community development. Showcasing some of the best rock, metal, punk, hip-hop and funk artists, Double Door has hosted up-and-coming acts and bonafide superstars alike and has even helped launch some of those up-and-comers to superstardom.įive miles from campus, the Experimental Sound Studio’s Edgewater facility boasts a full-service recording, mixing and mastering studio for hire. Featuring a main room, a hayloft-style balcony and a downstairs bar that hosts comedy nights, DJs and acoustic shows, Double Door is one of the premier places to catch a live show in Chicago. These are just a few of the bands that have graced the stage at Double Door, the live music venue at the heart of Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood. With numerous concert halls, recording studios, radio stations and other storied spaces near Northwestern’s campus, Sound Arts and Industries students have access to incredible opportunities.
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