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- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Jul 31, 2020
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Prop Thtr gives up its longtime Avondale home
But the company remains true to its focus on new work and egalitarian principles.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Preview Jan 10, 2020
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Rhino Fest provides a theatrical horn of plenty
In its 31st year, Chicago's longest-running alternative theater festival celebrates old friends and new voices.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 6, 2019
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A Packet of Holiness and Joy Will Come to You? (A Fable) is a fun house for grim times
Beau O'Reilly's latest play for Curious Theatre Branch celebrates weirdness as resistance.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 26, 2018
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Goodbye to Tony Adler, the best weekly theater critic Chicago's ever had
His retirement after 38 years will leave a void both at the Reader and in Chicago's theater scene.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 14, 2018
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Riot Fest and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend
The Music Box 70mm Film Festival and more goings-on 9/14-9/16
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Sep 13, 2018
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Jenny Magnus stays behind the scenes of the charmingly absurd (Not) Another Day
The Curious Theatre Branch cofounder's latest puts the "opera" in soap opera.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 11, 2018
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Crossing Aviva might be enjoyable if it left any room to breathe
There are so many narratives the show requires an LED crawl to keep them straight.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Jan 10, 2018
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Everyone's favorite fringe fest is back
The 29th annual Rhinoceros Theater Festival presents a full slate of plays that are “new, local, and good” (or not).
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature May 3, 2017
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Chicago, Lady X: The Musical, and seven more new theater reviews
The hometown return of an iconic show and the tuneful reboot of a camp classic are among this week's best bets.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Feb 9, 2017
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Ballet, bad dates, and ‘The Bowman Brothers Radio Hour’: Notes from the fringe at Rhinofest
The 28th iteration of Curious Theatre Branch’s annual festival continues through February 26.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Feb 1, 2017
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Rhinofest isn’t just an experimental theater festival, it’s a community
”Chicago’s longest running fringe” event is back for its 28th year.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Nov 17, 2016
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After the Dance, End of the Rainbow, and ten more new theater reviews
A Chicago premiere from Runcible and another success from Porchlight are among this week's best bets.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature May 4, 2016
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Mike Mother, Best of Enemies, The 180 Degree Rule, and eight more stage shows to see now
A Neo-Futurist performance piece, a drama about an almost unimaginable alliance, and a satire of Hollywood's golden age are among the hits this week.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 4, 2016
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At Rhinofest, the Rhinoceros stampede continues—Ionesco's classic included
Reviews of three prime-time shows at Rhinofest, which runs through February 28.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jan 28, 2016
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The rules have changed at Rhinofest
Has Chicago's longest-running fringe theater festival abandoned the fringe?
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 14, 2016
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It's Rhinofest time again: Chicago's fringe theater festival returns
The Rhinoceros Theater Festival returns for its 27th year.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Nov 20, 2015
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Court Theatre's Agamemnon, Ibsen's Ghosts, and ten more new theater reviews
There's preholiday gloom galore on Chicago stages.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jan 21, 2015
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At Rhinofest, theater nobody sent for is a good thing
A weekend at Curious Theatre Branch's long-running fringe festival turns up both old favorites and potent new investigations.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jan 14, 2015
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This year's Rhinofest salutes a homegrown king of fringe theater
Curious Theatre Branch's 26th annual extravaganza features six plays and a concert by cofounder Beau O'Reilly.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 19, 2014
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In Sixty Story Animal, Beau O'Reilly celebrates a landmark birthday with Samuel Beckett
In Sixty Story Animal, Beau O'Reilly celebrates a landmark birthday with Samuel Beckett, because what subject could be more apt than one's own mortality?
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 12, 2014
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At Steppenwolf's Garage Rep, failure can spell success
Because at least the three off-Loop companies showcased here are thinking big.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jan 22, 2014
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The 25th annual Rhinofest helps define fringe theater
A quarter century of the festival that keeps theatrical perversity in Chicago.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jan 22, 2014
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Too many of this year's Rhinofest offerings are too small and too safe
The 25th annual Rhinoceros Theater Festival presents the cozy side of fringe.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Sidebar Jan 15, 2014
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The 25th annual Rhinofest isn't getting old
The fringe-theater festival has been around longer than some of its most noteworthy participants.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Sidebar May 16, 2012
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Another pachyderm from the producers of Rhinofest
Curious Theatre Branch presents "The Other Side of the Elephant"
