Last Sunday, I was back in the North Side neighborhood for Lifeline Theatre’s “Cat’s Cradle,” an adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s satirical 1963 novel about a fictional co-creator of the ...

Cat’s Cradle, Lifeline Theatre. Kurt Vonnegut’s darkly funny 1963 novel, about a socially inept scientist who inadvertently destroys the world, has not aged well. Though the ideas are still ...

Kurt Vonnegut’s 1963 novel satirizes the Cold War arms race and plays on societal anxiety over military annihilation and increased militarization in the world.

Kurt Vonnegut’s major apocalyptic trio, "Cat’s Cradle," "Slapstick," and "Galápagos," prompt broad global, national, and species-level thinking about environmental issues through dramatic and ...