Conor Sullivan (ex-Oh Theodora) Gets Some Bad News!

When Conor Sullivan, a founding member of Oh Theodora, relocated to Los Angeles last year, the group continued doing shows as a trio for several months, before announcing plans to dissolve this Spring. This Wednesday, April 1st, Oh Theodora is performing , but apparently no one gave Conor any advanced warning before the announcement was made public.

Thankfully the cameras were rolling to capture his reaction to this emotionally charged news. Please watch this video before the inevitable DMCA Takedown ruins the fun for all of us.

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Tailgaters: The Complete Season 1

The cast of , an-LA based comedy show made up of several former Chicagoans/Steamroller MVPs, released a webseries called Tailgaters last week. It's a great, weird little series of shorts that I highly recommend you watch right away, and, if you live in LA, check out The Wheel Show, monthly at Meltdown Comics!

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A chat between Movies: Live!'s Sarah Shockey and Conor Sullivan

Conor Sullivan and Sarah Shockey have teamed up for a series of live script readings called Movies: Live! w/ Conor & Sarah. Tomorrow, Saturday September 20th at 1pm at the new iO space, they'll be reading Conor's new screenplay Steal My Sunshine, and Sunday the 21st at 4pm at the Public House Theater, they'll be having a double feature of Sarah's Sand Castle and Conor's Calm Down Tanya.

In advance of this weekend's three readings, here's a conversation between Conor and Sarah about a whole bunch of things!

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Collectors Edition says goodbye to Conor Sullivan!

I've lived in Chicago for almost 4 years. For most of that time, I've known , my good friend who is leaving for Los Angeles next month. For a lil while I'd had plans to eulogize Conor here on the Steamroller, but I don't think that would be fair to him because Conor leaving Chicago to bigger and better things is nothing but a positive thing. He is moving on to do things he's always wanted to do, and I am sincerely proud of him.

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Everybody's Haunted Part Boo: The Screamquel is TONIGHT!

Three years ago ,  and  put up a Halloween show at Second City's de Maat Theater called Everybody's Haunted. The show was essentially written in 2 hours (most of which was spent napping) and was simultaneously all sorts of crazy, lazy and stupid.

Now, with  happening tonight (saki Records, 10/31/13 at 7:30pm), let's take a look back at by FAR the most prepared piece from that night three years ago: A video from a fourth person () that was obviously not made for the original show.

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Finish Your Dinner's preshow prayer

Two of the finest sketch teams in the city,  and , have teamed up to produce a new monthly show at The Public House Theatre, an exciting new theater space catered towards sketch comedy. The show is called ​ and the show's seven producers sent over this exclusive look behind the scenes at their most reverential preshow ritual. The first Finish Your Dinner is tonight, April 4th, at 8pm; each ticket comes with a free can of PBR and can be purchased here.

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A Holiday Playlist from Oh Theodora's Conor Sullivan

With Christmas less than a week away (and our big Christmas Show tonight!), myself and the rest of Oh Theodora understand you’re probably getting sick of all the same old songs playing in every store/car/car store you’ve been in the last two months. So, in order to keep you in the Christmas Spirit, here’s a playlist I’ve created of some lesser known Christmas gems to play while wrapping your brother’s Gift Card to Kenny Roger’s Roasters.

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Live Review: Eve 6 & Everclear

The Steamroller's live music correspondent Conor Sullivan (of  & Collectors Edition) saw Eve 6 and Everclear last weekend. I'm on a bunch of mailing lists for PR companies that represent bands both big-time and small (mostly small). A lot of the time, these messages get ignored, but when I received a press release highlighting an upcoming tour featuring coheadliners Eve 6 and Everclear, with a stop in nearby Joliet, something clicked. I knew Conor to be long-time, unironic fan of both bands and thought this would be a nice opportunity to check in with few bands most folks haven't given a second thought to in years. Check out the full review after the jump!

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