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by Sharon Hoyer | December 2, 2025

From the Humane Laboratory: Mad Shak Presents the Third and Final Chapter of “Ex/Body” “This piece is being made in the midst of deep questions with the ensemble about where do we go from here? What do we do with the coexistence of these feelings of the desire to be seen? The desire to hide?"

by Sharon Hoyer | October 18, 2023

Ways of Seeing: A Preview of Mad Shak’s “Ex/Body: strike, vibrate, shatter” at Studio5

by Sharon Hoyer | April 6, 2019

Observer Effect: A Review of Mad Shak’s Of Whales, Time, and Your Last Attempt to Reach Me

by Sharon Hoyer | January 2, 2019

Players 2019: The Fifty People Who Really Perform for Chicago

by Kevin Greene | June 3, 2018

Blood & Rain: A Review of Mies Julie at Victory Gardens Theater

by Alyssa Motter | March 27, 2018

Collective Memory from Collated Pasts: A Preview of Of Whales, Time and Your Last Attempt to Reach Me by Molly Shanahan/Mad Shak

by Michael Workman | December 9, 2016

Movement Makes Us Humane A Preview of Mad Shak's Love With/out Trembling at Links Hall

by Sharon Hoyer | December 15, 2014

Muscle Memory: Mad Shak Investigates How We Forget

by Sharon Hoyer | January 21, 2014

Preview: Archipelago/The Leopold Group

by Sharon Hoyer | October 31, 2011

Review: Factor Ricochet/Synapse Arts Collective

by Sharon Hoyer | May 11, 2010

Watching the Artist Living: Molly Shanahan and Mad Shak pursue performance denuded

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