10/22/2008 NEW STAGE PLAY - "MASS GRAVE"! A literal feast of horror comes your way in this one act suspense gem, Darren Callahan's "Mass Grave." Also available to purchase through the CATALOG.

10/10/2008 DIONYSUS CUP FLIER! Click here for complete schedule and all details regarding Chicago's Dionysus Cup, the Chicago new plays festival featuring Darren Callahan's "The Double Negative."

10/06/2008 YES, ANOTHER NEW "TRAVEL" ALBUM! The fourth TRAVEL release for 2008 -- 16 arena rock songs under the title "Anti-Social Butterfly " is scheduled to be released on November 11th, 2008. For details and preview of choice cuts, click here. You can also place an advanced order through the CATALOG.

09/26/2008 "THE WHITE AIRPLANE" STAGED READING! As part of its journey to production, Darren Callahan's "The White Airplane" will have a preview staged reading on Sunday, November 23rd, 2008 at 2 PM at the Josephinum Academy, 1500 N. Bell, Chicago. Click here for more information!

09/20/2008 "THE WHITE AIRPLANE" TO HIT THE STAGE IN CHICAGO IN 2009! Critically-acclaimed Polarity Ensemble Theatre of Chicago will be producing Darren Callahan's surrealist mystery "The White Airplane" for its winter 2009 season. The run is February 13 to March 22, 2009 and to be directed by Remy Bumppo associate, Susan Padveen. The play will also be published simultaneously with the production, paired with a second TBD Darren Callahan script. Click here for more information as the production develops!

09/15/2008 "THE DOUBLE NEGATIVE" TO BE IN 2008 DIONYSUS CUP! Darren Callahan's WWII drama "The Double Negative" will have 2 staged readings as a part of the renowned Chicago festival, The Dionysus Cup. Click here for showtimes and dates in November!

09/05/2008 CRIMESPREE! Killer fiction magazine Crimespree ran a recent review of Darren Callahan's novel, "City of Human Remains." Click here to read.

08/04/2008 MISSING LINK! A free CD to the first person who can write and explain the connection between TRAVEL and this band!

08/02/2008 PREVIEW CUT FROM FOURTH "TRAVEL" ALBUM IN 2008! Coming this fall is the fourth release this year from noise rockers, TRAVEL. Click here for an early preview cut, "Waves of Control"!

08/01/2008 "THE DICTIONARY" RELEASED! Side project by TRAVEL's Darren Callahan, Matt Hart, and Michael Vallera releases new full-length debut CD under the name THE DICTIONARY. Click here to experience the noise, or dig that "none more black" album cover. Or click here to buy!

07/25/2008 WRITERS! Photo op #2 with awesome peeps and awesome writers -- Darren Callahan with (L to R) bestseller novelists Brian Pinkerton, Barry Eisler, Marcus Sakey, and Lee Child.

07/01/2008 ZOMBIES! Photo op with film director George Romero (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead) & Darren Callahan. Pretty sweet.

06/27/2008 YET ANOTHER NEW "TRAVEL" ALBUM! The third TRAVEL release for 2008 -- 16 awesome pop/rock songs under the title "= Writes" is now in the can and scheduled to be released on July 29th, 2008. For a preview, click here. You can also place an advanced order through the CATALOG.

06/15/2008 YOUTUBE! Mucho new YouTube goodies have been posted. Just search on "Darren Callahan" to find such nuggets as the OO OO WA "Rocketship" music video, a 1998 TRAVEL show, and a Metromix highlight of "Horror Academy."

02/23/2008 "THE DICTIONARY!" For a preview cut from the forthcoming album for Darren Callahan's band "The Dictionary," click here.

02/22/2008 "TRAVEL" REVIEW! A review of the live album can be found here.

02/18/2008 NEW BAND! Matt Hart, Michael Vallera, and Darren Callahan are hard at work on a new album, under the band name "The Dictionary." Click here for exclusive pictures.

02/10/2008 ANOTHER NEW "TRAVEL" ALBUM! Say, the 2nd of 5 Travel albums for 2008 is coming 03/04/2008, but you can get it now from this very site! "Spoken Worl[l]d" is the mellow album that is just plain sleepy.

01/30/2008 NEW "TRAVEL" ALBUM! Say, the first of 5 Travel albums for 2008 is coming 02/19/2008, but you can get it now from this very site! "Travel Comes @live" is the live album that is just plain wicked.

01/04/2008 2008 CONFERENCE APPEARENCES! Darren Callahan will be appearing at Chicago's Love Is Murder, Pikes Peak (Colorado) Writers Conference, and Thrillerfest (NYC). Seek him out, check out a panel, and say hello if you are attending.

12/30/2007 NEW SCREENPLAY! New Darren Callahan screenplay now available, "Lesbian Pornographic Feature Film." Note: not an actual porn.

12/14/2007 PERFORMINK! Darren mentioned in the latest PerformInk magazine, for actors/playwrights.

11/23/2007 DEMENTIA PRECOX! Darren was quoted in an article about the seminal 80s punk/electronica band Dementia Precox.

11/17/2007 "HORROR 101"! The smash "Horror 101" book is now available though this website! Features profiles of 101 classic horror and monster flicks, including an essay by Tom Savini, and, of course, Darren Callahan.

11/01/2007 Reviews! A quick summary of the reviews of Darren Callahan's "Horror Academy" can be found here.

10/31/2007 HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM "HORROR ACADEMY"! One week left in the run of the Darren Callahan/Babes With Blades event play "Horror Academy." It's a hit! Chicago Tribune named it the #1 pick for the season with a big feature, picture, and four out of five on the fright-o-meter, giving the play a rating of "horrifying." Time Out Chicago calls it "a ripping good time." There is NOTHING like this show in town. Metromix has a 3-minute special on CLTV, also online at this link. Select "Babes With Blades theatre show" from the right side video pod to see the exclusive footage. NPR (WBEZ Chicago) did a nice highlight on Horror Academy this morning during drive time. To hear the show, click the link below and go forward about 15 minutes. Remember: many shows sold out, so if you want tickets, move fast.

10/19/2007 DARREN CALLAHAN'S "HORROR ACADEMY" UNDERWAY, GREAT REVIEWS! It's one week into the run! Many shows are sold out and the reviews are phenomenal. The play was a pick in the Chicago Tribune, RED EYE, Metromix, Time Out Magazine, The Onion, Daily Herald (including video), Center Stage, and Chicago Reader. Reviews have also appeared in Killer Works and other horror sites. Only three weeks left to see what the whole town's talking about! Click here to reserve a seat today! Also, please note, parking is limited, so be sure to arrive early if you're driving. Red Line Granville stop may be your best bet. Late arrivals will miss the killer opening...and when we say killer we mean killer.

09/17/2007 DARREN CALLAHAN'S "HORROR ACADEMY" OPENS IN FOUR WEEKS! It's coming. Part theater part haunted house, it's a totally unique experience that's built for fans of horror. No cheap slasher showdown, this is the real deal. Dread. Terror. Suspense. Surprises. Three Darren Callahan-penned "Twilight Zone"-like creepers, all connected by spooky transitions, "Horror Academy" is a promenade-style drama in a supremely scary location - Chicago's North Lakeside Cultural Center (6219 N Sheridan Rd., at Sheridan and Granville.) Think you can take it? Wanna be scared? October's the perfect time. Even if you're not in Chicago, it's worth the trip. Produced by the 10-year-old Chicago theater company Babes With Blades, an all-female ensemble of top-drawer actors with hair-raising fight skills and directed by award-winning Jeremy Wechsler. Click on any of the three below links for more info on the play, tickets, and exclusive content.

Theatre In Chicago

Babes With Blades

Horror Academy Central

09/15/2007 "CITY OF HUMAN REMAINS" NOW AVAILABLE! Year 2097. 81 Missing Children. 1 City. The underground version of the latest Darren Callahan novel "City of Human Remains" is now available for purchase exclusively through this site. See the Catalog page. Click here for notes and an excerpt. Check out the lo-fi promo site, too, for another batch of excerpts and other exclusive content: http://cityofhumanremains.com.

08/08/2007 SNEAK PEEK! Click for the latest Horror Academy Poster!

07/15/2007 DARREN IS VAGUE ! In a videotaped interview with Authorfest, Darren rambles on about his work, his play "Horror Academy," and about killing his audience.

06/29/2007 DARREN IN NON-FIC HORROR ANTHOLOGY! Darren's essay on the 1956 version of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" will be featured in the forthcoming coffee-table book from Midnight Marquee, Inc. entitled “Dr. AC presents HORROR 101: THE A-LIST OF HORROR FILMS AND MONSTER MOVIES, VOL 1. It's an absolutely stellar list of writers pegging the best horror flicks from the last 100 years. It's an honor to even be included! Check out the book's myspace site.

06/26/2007 "CITY OF HUMAN REMAINS" NOW AVAILABLE! Slyly posted on this site is the new Darren Callahan novel. Shhh...don't tell anyone. Also redone is the book's site.

05/19/2007 "HORROR ACADEMY" MYSPACE! A MySpace site has been started as build to the autumn debut of Darren Callahan's "Horror Academy" -- sure to be the Halloween event here in Chicago, thanks to a talented production team and an awesome marketing hook. Check out the site and spread the word!

05/08/2007 PODCAST! Darren Callahan's short story "The 30 Day Baby Company," a sci-fi scarefest about a plague that kills 25 million children and the resulting business of baby rentals, has been picked up for an audio podcast by Well Told Tales. Click to download an MP3, listen online, or subscribe to this excellent site! The story's only available for a limited time, so act now! It's free!

04/28/2007 AUTHORFEST! Darren will be a guest speaker at 2007's Authorfest, this June 23rd, 2007. The event is at The Schaumburg Twp. District Library, 130 South Roselle Road, Schaumburg, IL 60193 and runs from 10 AM CST to 4 PM CST. Call (847) 985-4000 or click for more details.

04/27/2007 CATALOG PURGE! darrencallahan.com has delisted about a dozen items from the CATALOG, either for being out of stock, or being out of synch with the current artistic mission. Sorry. You snooze you loose. If you're really dying for any of the old stuff, send an email to Darren.

04/06/2007 NEW GAME! Darren's brother's company has released a new role-playing game, written & designed by Clayton Callahan. Click here to learn about (and order!) this spectacular game!

03/30/2007 BATTLES! Darren truly believes that everyone should see this video -- "Atlas" by the math rockers BATTLES!

02/10/2007 LIBRARY ARTICLE! Darren mentioned in latest Library News publication!

01/13/2007 EXCLUSIVE DARREN MUSIC AVAILABLE ON SLOPE! The fantastic magazine Slope is featuring two Darren-affiliated bands on its website. Click for "C-Side" by Travel, an unreleased cut, and "Jacket Weather" by Telegraph, originally from 2002's "Stellar Lovers, Vol. 2" CD!

12/25/2006 TRAVEL XMAS! Here's a link to some rare rehearsal, recording, and show pictures from recent TRAVEL happenings!

12/20/2006 TRAVEL SHOW THANKS! Thanks to everyone who came out for TRAVEL's big show. The band had a great (and tremendously noisy) time and we hope everyone survived our wall of sound. We'll see you again in 2016! As a special bonus for those who where there and those who weren't, here's a link to some press about the event, as well as "back of the room" lo-fi recordings of "Crush At The Bar" and "Arm The Guitarists." (Note: It may take a moment before the songs play after you click the link.) A 16 channel recording of the set existes, too, and may be released at a later date. If you want to know the complete set played, here's Darren's own scrawled set list, complete with guitar effects settings!

11/29/2006 TRAVEL NEWS! Travel website has been redesigned. Also, click here to see the 12/16 live performance show poster!

11/27/2006 MYSPACE! Click here to see Travel's new MySpace page.

11/17/2006 MYSPACE! Click here to see Teenage Blackout's new MySpace page.

11/10/2006 "HORROR ACADEMY" DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW PERFORMANCE! Zombies. Cannibals. Vampires. All coming fall 2007, but not before a little bit o' preview development. Come one come all to a Saturday January 20th, 2007 staged reading at Chicago Dramatists, 1105 W Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL USA. Admission is $5 for non-members, free for members. Show starts at 2 PM CST. Click here for a cool flier!

10/28/2006 DARREN SPEAKING AT 2007 CONFERENCE! Darren Callahan will be a guest speaker at the 2007Love Is Murder mystery writers' conference in Chicago, Illinois, USA, held Fed 2 to 4, 2007. If you love mysteries, check out this conference!

10/24/2006 NEW TEENAGE BLACKOUT "123" CD NOW AVAILABLE! Teenage Blackout's "123" is now released to the world! This is by far the strongest Teenage Blackout record ever released, every track a winner. At 80 minutes, you'll be sure to get your blissful money's worth. Rumored to be the last and available only in a limited edition, buy yours today from this site, CDBaby, or itunes! Click here for song clips, inside notes, and pictures.

10/06/2006 TRAVEL PLAYS LIVE THIS DECEMBER! Yes, you read that correctly. Playing its first live set since 1998, Darren, Matt, Kelly, and Eric will play a special one-set show at Canal Street Tavern in Dayton, Ohio, on Saturday December 16th, 2006. The fete is honoring friend Eric Cassidy (now of the excellent band Shrug and formerly of the Darren Callahan produced band King Droopy,) who turns the big 3-0. If you're in the area or up for airfare, definitely try to attend this once a decade rare event! Also performing: Nick Kizirnis, Flyaway Minion, Shurg, and the Cassidy Mystery Tour.

10/01/2006 "CITY OF HUMAN REMAINS" - NEW NOVEL COMING IN 2007! Click here for a teaser site of Darren's upcoming novel, "City of Human Remains."

09/13/2006 "TOMORROW THE GREEN GRASS" PUBLISHED AGAIN! Darren's end-of-the-world story "Tomorrow the Green Grass," also in the anthology "Blind In One Eye," has been published in the latest edition of The Lamp-Post, a southern California magazine. If you're outside the state and want a copy, you can email this address!

09/02/2006 "HORROR ACADEMY" TO BE PRODUCED IN 2007! Darren's horror anthology stage play "Horror Academy" is slated to run 4 weeks in October 2007 in Chicago, IL, USA, produced by the amazing company Babes With Blades!

08/24/2006 NEW TRAVEL PICS! Here are some shots from the latest Travel recording session! New album coming early 2007!

08/01/2006 NEW TEENAGE BLACKOUT WEBSITE LAUNCHED! In anticipation of the Fall 2006 release of "123," we give you the new Teenage Blackout homepage!

06/24/2006 MYSPACE! Click here to see Darren's new MySpace page. He's officially joined the herd.

05/22/2006 SOUVENIER! Click here to see a promotional flier for "The White Airplane"!

05/21/2006 NEW SCREENPLAY! Click here to read about the movie adaptation of Darren's novel "Documentia"!

05/19/2006 LAST "WHITE AIRPLANE" DETAILS! The Dionysos Cup will run May 26th, 27th, 28th, and June 2nd, 3rd and 4th at Marrakesh Expresso, 4747 N. Damen, Chicago, 1.5 blocks north of the Damen Brown line. Festival passes will be sold on-line and at the door, two shows for $10 or the full festival for $20. If you attend all five shows, we will refund you $5 of your ticket price! "The White Airplane" will be at 7 pm, Sunday, May 28th and 8 pm, Saturday, June 3rd only! Don't miss it!

05/18/2006 "DOCUMENTIA" PRINT AD! Don't ask how this came to happen, but national chess magazine Chess Life is running a full-page advertisement for "Documentia" in their upcoming May / June 2006 issue.

05/13/2006 NEW BABY! Welcome to the world Charlotte Anne Callahan, Darren & Lisa's newest addition to the rock band!

04/30/2006 MARTIN CHRONICLES NAMED TOP ALBUM! Darren's 1997 TELEGRAPH album "Martian Chronicles" has been named one of the top "must have" albums from the last 40 years by the ol' rock hometown, Dayton, Ohio!

04/15/2006 THE WHITE AIRPLANE DATES! Schedule is set for the festival performances of Darren Callahan's "The White Airplane." Sunday night 05/28/06 and Saturday night 06/03/06. Stay tuned for location, time, and tickets!

04/11/2006 NEW TEENAGE BLACKOUT ALBUM! Kidmodule3 is now released to the world! Click for song clips, inside notes, and pictures.

03/16/2006 FANS OF THE WHITE AIRPLANE REJOICE! Darren's surreal headtrip stage play "The White Airplane" has beat down the competition to win a top 5 slot in Chicago's Dionysos Cup, a festival of plays sponsored by Polarity Ensemble Theatre. Performances will be May 26th through June 4th, 2006. Stay tuned for details!

03/11/2006 TRAVEL, THE MOVIE DIRECTOR'S SITE! Click here to see the cool new website of Travel film director David Scott Hay!

03/08/2006 THE TOKYO TOURIST BUREAU NOW AVAILABLE! Click here for an excerpt. Click here to purchase your very own copy!

02/21/2006 Souvenir! Program from Darren Callahan's stage play "Water Pressure"!

02/01/2006 "DOCUMENTIA" Review from Punk Planet Magazine! Click to read.

01/07/2006 THE TOKYO TOURIST BUREAU BROADCAST! Darren Callahan's surrealist comedy / drama is scheduled for a broadcast January 22, 2006 at 7 PM EST on New York City radio. Presented by the excellent troupe the Gotham Players and WBAI Radio Pacifica. You can listen to show online if you're outside the New York City area.

01/06/2006 NEW SCREENPLAY! Click here to read about "The Battle For Carlyle."

12/22/2005 DARREN SPEAKING AT 2006 CONFERENCE! Darren Callahan will be on 5 panels at the 2006 Love Is Murder mystery writers' conference in Chicago, Illinois, USA, held Fed 3 to 5th. Darren will be alongside such great writers as Judith Guest ("Ordinary People"), Barry Eisler ("Hard Rain"), Brian Pinkerton ("Vengeance"), J A Konrath ("Bloody Mary"), William Kent Kruger ("Blood Hollow"), Laura Caldwell ("Look Closely"), Tim Broderick ("Something to Build Upon"), and others. If you love mysteries, check out this conference.

12/20/2005 MATT HART RELEASES! Matt Hart, lead singer of Darren's art rock band Travel, has released two books, Revelated and Who's Who Vivid. Brilliant!

12/06/2005 NEW DARREN CALLAHAN RETROSPECTIVE RELEASED! Click here to read about a new Darren Callahan best-of compilation album, "Nature Films," featuring highlights from albums 11 through 20!

11/30/2005 TRAVEL, THE MOVIE ARTICLE! The director of the Darren Callahan sci-fi film profiled in this month's Reel Chicago!

11/28/2005 "WATER PRESSURE" PUBLISHED! The Audition Arsenal book is now on bookshelves featuring a 2 minute monologue from Darren Callahan's stage play, "Water Pressure," published by Smith & Kraus! Click here to order from Amazon!

11/24/2005 EARLY WARNING - DARREN SPEAKING GIG THIS JANUARY! Darren Callahan, along with authors Jennie Spallone, Eleanor Taylor Bland, and Alex Mathews will "talk about their craft and the writing of books that keep you on the edge of your seat." Sunday, January 29, 2006 at 3 PM in the auditorium of the Highland Park Library. Click here for more details!

11/23/2005 SEVEN SPEED VORTEX ! A few years back, Darren produced an album from punk-pop outfit Seven Speed Vortex. Well they're out and about again. Click here for a reunion shot!!

11/21/2005 NEW WEBSITE FOR TRAVEL, THE MOVIE! Lo-fi sci-fi film penned by Darren Callahan has its own publicity site. Very cool stuff that will build over time until the film's release!

11/11/2005 "WATER PRESSURE" TO BE PERFORMED! Darren Callahan's killer time travel play "Water Pressure" will be performed by the Gurnee Theater Company, Sunday Feb 19th, 2006 at 2 PM. Stay tuned for more details!

11/04/2005 ROCKETSHIP VIDEO ! See the big buget OO OO WA music video!

10/11/2005 NEW TRAVEL ALBUM! You can get an advance copy of the new TRAVEL album "B^Sides" from this very website. Click here to read production notes or listen to the singles. Album street date is 10/18/05!

10/05/2005 'DOCUMENTIA' IN OCTOBER 'PUNK PLANET MAGAZINE'! Word on the street is that cool magazine Punk Planet is running a review of Darren Callahan's underground novel "Documentia" in the October issue. Look for it on newsstands.

10/02/2005 NEW SCREENPLAY! Yes, Darren's in a band called TRAVEL, and he's also involved in a film that just happens to be called "Travel." Pure coincidence. Click here to read what's up with this project and read a scene from the film.

10/02/2005 TRAVEL ALBUM PREVIEW! For a free preview of the entire new album, go here.

10/01/2005 TICKET INFO ON - DARREN CALLAHAN'S "RED MESSAGES"! For more information on this production, including ticket reservations, please call the Freshwater Theater Company box office at (773) 387-7063. Performances will be held October 6-8, 13-15, 20-22, & 27-29. Tickets are $15 or less. All shows begin at 8 pm. Opening weekend is Hurricane Relief Weekend; tickets are $3 off with a food shelf donation.
Thursday nights are industry nights, during which all entertainment industry professionals can attend for $10 with headshots and resumes. Group rates are also available. The Freshwater Theater Company production runs October 6th through the 29th at National Pastime Theater, 4139 N. Broadway, in Chicago.

09/23/2005 THE PEOPLE MAGAZINE SHOT -- LIterati Robert W. Walker, Tim Broderick, and Darren Callahan hang out at novelist's Raymond Benson's 50th birthday bash!

09/22/2005 RED MESSAGES TO BE PERFORMED! Darren Callahan's "Red Messages" has been picked up to be part of a larger work, "Theater of the Damned," an evening of scenes, monologues, and films based on the very popular horror genre. The Freshwater Theater Company production runs October 6th through the 29th at National Pastime Theater, 4139 N. Broadway, in Chicago. Ticket info to be posted soon!

09/20/2005 NEW TEENAGE BLACKOUT ALBUM! Kidmodule2 is now released to the world!

08/29/2005 FOUR NEW STAGE PLAYS! Well, kinda. "Horror Academy" is an anthology featuring "Where Is the Breakdown?", plus three new pieces, "Three Lines," "Everything's Different Here," and "Red Messages." Click here to read about these violent, wicked plays.

08/27/2005 GO ARTICLE! Here it is.

08/24/2005 TEENAGE BLACKOUT VS. SUPER PAL! A few bits from Teenage Blackout's "Berlin Record" will be appearing as background music for "Super Pal: The Saving of the World," an audio drama. Catch it on the show "Sound Affects: A Radio Playground", Saturday, August 27, 2005, 3:00 PM, CDT, 90.3 FM or 106.7 FM, Minneapolis, St. Paul. If you're not in broadcast range, look for the Listen Live! button on the web. Or, if you miss it altogether, you can check the Program Archives under Sound Affects, where the show will be available for two weeks after broadcast. Presented in Real Audio format.

08/18/2005 LIAM CALLAHAN! Check it.

08/17/2005 DARREN in GO MAGAZINE! Apparently, a feature on Darren Callahan's music, including a preview of the forthcoming Travel and Teenage Blackout records, will run in this weekend's GO magazine. Be on the lookout.

08/08/2005 "WATER PRESSURE" UPDATE! Sad news -- Chicago's Visions & Voices, the company scheduled to produce Darren Callahan's stage play "Water Pressure" for the fall 2005 season, has gone on permanent hiatus. Though the company has had several hit plays and won many Jeff Awards (the Chicago equivalent of the Tony), their last show, "Arrangement for Two Violas" by Sue Lieberman, bled too much cash. They may turn it around, but for now...no "Water Pressure." Sorry everyone!

08/05/2005 New PRESS SUITE page offers some a top level view of key press articles, culled from the hundreds on this site. Check it out!

07/22/2005 SOUVENIER! Click here to see the ad for "The Double Negative"! A big thanks to the entire cast for all their excellent work.

07/12/2005 NEW NOVEL! Click here to read about "Documentia."

07/04/2005 NEW TRAVEL SONG! Click here for a preview of the upcoming TRAVEL album "B^Sides," coming Fall 2005. (Note, may take a minute or so before it starts to play, depending on connection speed.)

06/27/2005 SOUVENIER! Click here to see the ad for "3 Plays By Darren Callahan"!

06/15/2005 GOOD PRESS! Someone forwarded a copy of the Dayton Daily News feature -- front page of the Arts & Entertainment Section and in color! Click here to read!

06/10/2005 FEATURE ON DARREN IN THE DAYTON DAILY NEWS THIS WEEKEND! Darren Callahan will be profiled in the Sunday June 12th "Arts" section of the Dayton Daily News, the cool Ohio paper of Darren's hometown. If you're in the area, pick up a copy!

06/02/2005 "WHERE IS THE BREAKDOWN?" TO BE PERFORMED! Darren Callahan's horror stage play will be performed as part of the Deadline Workshop Festival on Saturday, June 18th at 2 PM CST at Chicago Dramatists, 1105 W Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL USA. Admission is $5. This is a must see! All female cast, stage combat, and zombies.

05/23/2005 "THE TOKYO TOURIST BUREAU" UPDATE! Darren Callahan's latest audio drama is now scheduled for June 19, 2005 at 7 PM EST. Presented by NYC's Gotham Players and WBAI Radio Pacifica. You can listen to the live performance online if you're outside the New York City area.

05/21/2005 "THE DOUBLE NEGATIVE" READING MOVED ONE LAST TIME! The date and location for the staged reading of Darren Callahan's epic stage play, "The Double Negative," has changed a final time to a new venue. It is now Sunday July 17, 2005, at the Chicago Dramatists, 1105 W Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL USA at 6:30 pm Central. Admission is free. Everyone welcome!

05/20/2005 UPCOMING BOOK SIGNING! Darren Callahan will be signing copies of "The Vanishing of Archie Gray" on Saturday June 11th from 4 PM to 6 PM at the Printers Row Book Fair, Chicago. The fair is a major book event and a great time for all! Stop by the Twilight Tales tent and say hello.

05/19/2005 NEW SCREENPLAY! Click here to read about "Terminus."

05/18/2005 NEW ONE ACT STAGE PLAY! Click here to read about "Where Is The Breakdown?"

05/09/2005 "THE DOUBLE NEGATIVE" READING RE-SCHEDULED - NEW DATE! The date for the live reading of Darren Callahan's epic stage play, "The Double Negative," has changed. It is now Monday June 6, 2005, at Breadline Theater, 1802 West Berenice Corner of Ravenswood and Berenice, (near intersection of Addison and Lincoln), in Chicago, IL. at 7 pm Central. Admission is free. Everyone welcome

04/18/2005 "THE TOKYO TOURIST BUREAU" UPDATE! Darren Callahan's latest audio drama is now scheduled for June 5th, 2005. Presented by NYC's Gotham Players and WBAI Radio Pacifica. You can listen to the live performance online if you're outside the New York City area.

04/12/2005 NEW PUBLISHED STORY! Darren Callahan's Japanese murder mystery, "Animal Parts," is featured in the latest edition of Chicago's Twilight Tales Magazine. Click here for the online edition!

04/11/2005 EARLY WARNING - DEADLINE WORKSHOP! Darren Callahan will be participating in the spring Deadline Workshop, sponsored by Chicago Dramatists along with Babes With Blades, an all-female stage combat group. Darren's yet-to-be-written play will be featured in a Chicago Dramatists Saturday Series in late June 2005. Stay tuned for more details on this exciting collaboration.

04/04/2005 "THE DOUBLE NEGATIVE" READING SCHEDULED! On May 17th, 2005 there will be a reading of Darren Callahan's three-act stage play "The Double Negative" at Breadline Theater, 1802 West Berenice Corner of Ravenswood and Berenice, (near intersection of Addison and Lincoln), in Chicago, IL. at 7 pm Central. Admission is free. Everyone welcome!

04/01/2005 "FILMSTARS" READING SCHEDULED! Darren Callahan's stage comedy "Filmstars" will have a reading at the Chicago Dramatists, 1105 W Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL USA, on Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005 at 7 pm Central. Admission is free. Everyone welcome!

03/21/2005 New Movie! Darren Callahan-penned movie "Terminus" has finished shooting under the direction of the amazing David Scott Hay ("Hard Scrambled"), starring Tom Hickey and Brian Alan Hill. More to follow about this killer flick!

03/15/2005 Darren Callahan is at work on a new novel entitled "Documentia" - a North-By-Northwest style thriller. Coming this summer!

02/13/2005 Darren Callahan's "The Toyko Tourist Bureau" audio drama for WBAI NYC has been rescheduled to later in 2005. Sorry about that. New air date to follow soon!

02/06/2005 NEW MINI-PLAY! Click here and scroll to the bottom to read about "Wunderkind."

02/01/2005 "TOKYO TOURIST BUREAU" UPDATE! Time for the broadcast of the new Darren Callahan audio drama is 7 PM Eastern US. As stated below, this is on February 20th, 2005. Presented by NYC's Gotham Players and WBAI Radio Pacifica. You can listen to the live performance online if you're outside the New York City area.

01/24/2005 "WATER PRESSURE" MONOLOGUE TO BE PUBLISHED! In mid-2005, New Hampshire publishers Smith & Kraus will be publishing a monologue from Darren Callahan's time travel play "Water Pressure" in the anthology "Audition Arsenal: 101 Monologues by Type, 2 Minutes and Under, for Women in their 20s." For those familiar with the play, it's the bit where Ashley tells of almost getting her legs cut off in a car crash, to be saved by a note on her windshield. Look for it on bookshelves soon!

01/16/2005 NEW SCREENPLAY! Click here to read about a film adaptation of Darren Callahan's short story "Turn Signals."

01/11/2005 MARK YOUR CALENDARS! Darren Callahan's 30-minute radio dramedy "The Tokyo Tourist Bureau" now has an air date -- February 20th, 2005. Presented by NYC's Gotham Players and WBAI Radio Pacifica. More to follow...

01/09/2005 Darren Callahan's stage play "The White Airplane" has been selected as a finalist in the 2005 Columbus State Playwrighting Competition, beating out more than 325 entries for top 8 slot.

01/07/2005 Found! A third album from the defunct 1970s duo "Italian Aviation"! Recorded in 1979, the album has been lovingly restored by Darren Callahan, Matt Hart, and Kelly Morelock. Re-issued by Cincinnati, Ohio's Starfish Records. Click here for more details!

01/05/2005 Event Reminder! Darren Callahan will participate on 3 great panels at the 2005 "Love Is Murder" writing conference in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Click here to read more about attending this great event!

01/04/2004 NEW 3-ACT STAGE PLAY! Click here to read about Darren Callahan's "The Double Negative."

12/17/2004 LIVE READING OF DARREN CALLAHAN'S "FILMSTARS." On March 6, 2005, please join us for "An Afternoon With Darren Callahan," sponsored by the Gurnee Theatre. Click here for details.

12/14/2004 New TEENAGE BLACKOUT CD now available! Click here to read about "Kidmodule1."

11/20/2004 NEW ONE ACT PLAY! Click here to read about "Sub-Genre."

11/11/2004 Unearthed! Completely lame 1987 single by the band "Peace Question," featuring Christopher Annicone, Darren Callahan, and Leah Landis. Listen and weep.

11/04/2004 Darren Callahan and his new novel "The Vanishing of Archie Gray" featured in this week's Chicago Reader as Critic's Choice!

09/27/2004 NEW AUDIO DRAMA COMING! Darren Callahan returns to his roots of radio drama with a new dream-like drama entitled “The Tokyo Tourist Bureau.” This 30-minute play is to be produced by New York City’s Gotham Players on NYC’s WBAI Pacifica sometime in the coming months. Stay tuned for air dates!

09/26/2004 LIVE READING SCHEDULED! On Monday November 8, Darren Callahan will be reading at the Red Lion on Lincoln and Fullerton (across from the Biograph) in Chicago, IL. Scheduled time is 7:30 PM Central, $4 at the door. The event is upstairs. Sponsored by Twilight Tales. See LINKS page for TT website. Also reading will be Matt Hart, Rachel Flynn, and another TBD.

09/22/2004 NEW PUBLISHED SHORT STORY! Darren Callahan short story "Tape Recorder" is featured in the debut issue of Feral Fiction Magazine! Click here for the web edition!

09/20/2004 Latest Darren Callahan novel now available! Click here to read about "The Vanishing of Archie Gray," the stand-alone spin off novel to the popular AUDREY GREEN trilogy.

09/13/2004 Look! STATE FARM airbrushed Darren, Lisa, and Liam until they look completely insane!

09/04/2004 NEW STAGE PLAY! Click here to read about "Filmstars."

09/01/2004 EARLY WARNING - CONFERENCE APPEARANCE! Darren Callahan will be on a panel discussing playwrighting at the February 2005 "Love Is Murder" writers conference. Other panelists will be Brett Neveu ("American Dead"), Rob Koon ("Vintage Red and the Dust of the Road"), and David Scott Hay ("Hard Scrambled").

08/31/2004 FOUND! New ITALIAN AVIATION album "1971" re-issued to the world. Click here for details.

06/27/2004 New screenplay version of "Water Pressure" now available! Click here for details.

06/02/2004 The Callahans are now the State Farm Life Insurance model family! Check out Lisa, Liam, and Darren being silly. Part of a national campaign, even. If you have State Farm Home or Auto, but not Life, you'll also get promotional materials with the Callahans mailed straight to you this summer.

06/01/2004 Award-winning Chicago theater company Visions & Voices has optioned Darren Callahan's stage play "Water Pressure" for their fall 2005 season. Stay tuned for production details!

05/29/2004 Souvenir! Program from the first live reading of Darren Callahan's stage play "Water Pressure"!

05/25/2004 New publicity photographs! Click here for a gallery.

5/18/2004 Promotional blurb now available from Dystel & Goderich on "The Audrey Green Chronicles."

04/05/2004 NEW STAGE PLAY! Click here to read about "The White Airplane."

03/19/2004 Darren Callahan is now represented by the very cool Dystel & Goderich, NYC.

03/16/2004 STAGE PLAY READING! On 03/29/2004 there will be a reading of Darren Callahan's three-act stage play "Water Pressure" -- a story of time travel -- to be performed at Breadline Theater, 1802 West Berenice Corner of Ravenswood and Berenice, (near intersection of Addison and Lincoln), in Chicago, IL. Admission is free. 7 pm Central.

03/09/2004 NEW SONGS! 100% of the song clips on dc.com have now been updated with mp3 quality sound! Gone are the days of the 1999 site launch and the thin sounding Internet music. Rejoice! Download a track today! (Songs can be found on the SONGS page of each album.)

03/04/2004 FUTURE PANEL! The next "Of Dark & Stormy Nights" mystery conference, held in Chicago June 12, 2004, will feature a panel moderated by Darren Callahan. "Is Your Novel A Work Of Art?" will discuss writer integrity, art vs. commerce, and plain old selling out. Also on the panel will be bestsellers Steve Monroe ("57, Chicago"), Jennifer O'Connell ("Bachelorette #1"), and Richard Lindberg ("Return To The Scene of the Crime"). Stay tuned for further details...

02/25/2004 Live reading scheduled! On Monday March 8, Darren Callahan will be reading from his collection "Blind In One Eye" at the Red Lion on Lincoln and Fullerton (across from the Biograph) in Chicago, IL. Scheduled time is 7:30 PM Central, $4 at the door. The event is upstairs. Sponsored by the Twilight Tales. See LINKS page for TT website. Also reading will be the amazing Melanie Tem.

1/20/2004 Short new Darren Callahan play, "The Essentials," available! Click this link and scroll to the bottom for details.

1/19/2004 Available now! A reissue of the 1978 mystery novel "Anything For A Friend" by Darren Callahan's father, Ronald J. Callahan! Click this link and scroll to the bottom for details.

1/7/2004 The Record Changer magazine ran a 'Best of 2003' albums list from Darren Callahan in the December issue. Click here for the list. Plus, because sometimes people ask about influences, click here for a list of all the books DC read in 2003.

12/15/2003 Two new TEENAGE BLACKOUT CDs now available! Click here to read about "Alarm Clock World," and click here to read about "The Globe Hotel."

12/9/2003 Latest Darren Callahan novel now available! Click here to read about "Four Seasons In One Day"!

12/1/2003 Unearthed! 1998 concert review of the band THE CHURCH by Darren Callahan from the magazine NORTH SOUTH EAST WEST.

11/25/2003 DJ POWDA "Fight The Powda" CD now released to the world! Click here for details.

11/21/2003 New Stage Play! Click here to read about "Water Pressure"!

10/20/2003 Darren Callahan's one act stage play "Throw The Control Darts" will have a reading at the Chicago Dramatists, 1105 W Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL USA, on Tuesday, October 28, 2003 at 7 pm Central, admission is free. The event is open only to members of the Chicago Dramatists, The Playwright Exchange, local writers or actors. Send an email if you'd like to attend but are unsure of seats!

10/07/2003 "New Voices In Horror -- A Night of 5 Authors!" On Monday October 20, Darren Callahan will be reading a brand new story, "The Invisible Wire," at the Red Lion on Lincoln and Fullerton (across from the Biograph) in Chicago, IL. Scheduled time is 7:30 PM Central, $4 at the door. The event is upstairs. Sponsored by the Twilight Tales. See LINKS page for TT website.

10/06/2003 Bootleg OO OO WA live album released! Click here for details!

10/01/2003 New Darren Callahan short story collection available! Click here for information on BLIND IN ONE EYE.

09/25/2003 Darren Callahan and the Audrey Green Chronicles featured in this week's Chicago Reader!

09/16/2003 New reissue! BRAZILDISC presents a limited edition 4 CD box set of OO OO WA "Screen Kiss," the 1993 pop album featuring Darren Callahan. Click here for details!

09/01/2003 Darren Callahan short story "Turn Signals" featured in the September issue of Newtopia Magazine!

8/25/2003 For a preview of an upcoming new Darren Callahan short story anthology, click here.

08/20/2003 Darren Callahan live reading scheduled!
Chicago Authors Night, sponsored by Newtopia Magazine. 8 pm Central, Friday, September 26th, 2003, Quimby's Bookstore 1854 W. North Avenue (2 blocks east of Damen & Milwaukee), Chicago, 773-342-0910. Also reading will be Charles Shaw, Paul McComas, and cin salach!

07/02/2003 New Stage Play! Click here to read about "Two Girls Kissing."

5/28/2003 Darren Callahan public reading scheduled!
On Monday June 9, Darren Callahan will be reading at the Red Lion on Lincoln and Fullerton (across from the Biograph) in Chicago, IL. Scheduled time is 7:30 PM Central, $4 at the door. One other author will be reading. The event is upstairs. Sponsored by the Twilight Tales Featured Author Series. See LINKS page for TT website.

05/27/2003 New article by Darren Callahan in The Record Changer -- 25 Perfect Pop Songs.

5/1/2003 New Darren Callahan-penned stage play "Throw The Control Darts"! Click here for details.

04/24/2003 Darren Callahan live reading at the Cincinnati Academy of Art! Click here for details.

4/8/2003 Darren Callahan & Matt Hart present the re-issue of an ITALIAN AVIATION CD entitled "1975"! Click here for the scoop on this unusual project.

3/18/03 Introducing the producer for the next Darren Callahan album, Liam Callahan.

2/11/2003 New compilation CD released! "Saint James Station" features the best of 'the ambient' Darren Callahan affiliations, plus the previously unreleased title track. Click here for details!

11/5/2002 Just released! New three-in-one edition of "The Audrey Green Chronicles"! That's right, the entire series in one volume. Click here for details!

08/12/2002 Exclusive MP3.com tracks now available for TELEGRAPH and TEENAGE BLACKOUT!

07/30/2002 TELEGRAPH featured on a new tribute album for singer Steve Kilbey (of The Church)!
Click here for details.

07/23/2002 New TRAVEL album "A Sleep + A Wake" available now! Click here for details!

07/05/2002 Read a PETER GABRIEL article written by Darren, appearing in July 02's zine "THE RECORD CHANGER."

07/02/2002 Now available, lyrics & MP3s of TRAVEL "Me & My Friend Noise!"

6/7/2002 New Release! Introducing Liam Callahan!

05/24/2002 A reprint of a March 01 feature on Darren Callahan can be found here.

02/10/2002 New promo shot! Easy on the rock star posings, heavy on the writerly pretensions.

2/5/2002 New TRAVEL album "Me & My Friend Noise" available now! Click here for details!

1/15/2002 New double album! 2-disc set "Stellar Lovers" by Telegraph available now! Click here for Vol. 1, click here for Vol. 2.

1/7/2002 - Audrey Green website now on-line!
Fans of the book can get clues and insight!

1/5/2002 - My brother got published!

11/27/2001 Now On Sale! 18 - song retrospective CD, "Break Fix Anniversary" from Darren Callahan, spanning 1993-2001, including previously unreleased and remastered tracks!

11/04/2001
New novel THE TRAVELS OF AUDREY GREEN now on sale

10/29/01 - Hey, did you know I had a brother?

8/6/2001 New production of "Carnival Of Spies" now available! Write for how to buy!

7/3/2001 -- New Darren Callahan releases available now! THE SEARCH FOR AUDREY GREEN, TEENAGE BLACKOUT "Berlin Record", OO OO WA "Party Favor" limited edition!

5/28/01 - For this picture to make sense, see here. It was like meeting Brian Wilson.

1/5/2001 New novel 6 THE RISE now on sale

11/10/2000 New OO OO WA album? Click here for details.

11/9/2000 On the writing side, Darren Callahan is putting the finishing touches on a very lengthy and dark new novel, entitled 6 THE RISE.
It should be available for purchase early next year, so stay tuned.

11/5/2000 Darren realizes Rob Halford is perhaps the coolest man alive,
and buys every JUDAS PRIEST album on CD.

8/29/2000 New TRAVEL album available now! Read Darren's shameless email for details!

6/1/2000 - Flash! Travel has new record label, Deary Me Records. Better distribution, more money, album still out this summer!

6/1/2000 - Unearthed! 1972 modeling gig in an Easter flower ad.

4/1/2000 - New Travel album has been completed - to be released this summer on Starfish Records.

4/1/2000 - mp3's of Teenage Blackout, Travel, and Telegraph are available at mp3.com.

4/1/2000 - RADIO DARREN CALLAHAN available at sonicnet!

4/1/2000 - OO OO WA's big-budget "Rocketship" video now available
on musicvideos.com

Witness impromptu half-assed Life & Times reunion in NYC, Nov. '99!

11/1/1999 - web page construction completed!

TELEGRAPH's biggest hit "Here Come The Bugs" can now be downloaded in MP3 format from amazon.com

Teenage Blackout is featured on Modulator Radio.

Darren Callahan's short story "A Lifetime Supply of Fool's Gold"
appears in the Fall 1999 issue of The Crawling Eye. Send an email if you'd like to know how to get a copy.

7/1/1999 - The music of Teenage Blackout was recently used in the cool cyber-show "Duplicating Duluth."
"The World Against Me" played during the opening credits, and "Vista Larga" was heard for a flash at the end.

Telegraph is contributing a song to seminal Aussie band The Church's tribute album. If you want a preview of "My Birthday, The Moon Festival," click here!

Travel is working on album #2 - due next year, the album is called "This Is Our Not Music." If you want to hear a bit of
"Penniless, Straight Up and Down," click here!


Web page grand opening! 5/1/1999