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Music, Music Feature Apr 29, 2020
Let the Reader help with your Bandcamp shopping list

In the past few weeks, we’ve recommended three dozen Bandcamp releases—and this Friday, the service will again pass its share of revenue along to artists.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, (Sandy) Alex G, albums, Bandcamp, Bandcamp day, Bandcamp Friday, benefit, Bill Nace, Blacks’ Myths, Charles Rumback with Jim Baker and John Tate, coronavirus, COVID-19, Deeper, DJ Hank, Dool, Drama, Facs, Feminazgûl, Friday, Friend/Enemy, Gerald Cleaver, Helen Money, Human Impact, Igorrr, Irreversible Entanglements, Jackie Lynn, Lido Pimienta, Like Rats, Lord Dying, Machine Wash Music, Melkbelly, Midnight, Midwife, Ono, Oranssi Pazuzu, Orkesta Mendoza, pandemic, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Pigs x 7, revenue, RXM Reality, Serengeti, Sharkula, Stuck, support, V.V. Lightbody, waive, waiver, Waxahatchee, Whispers: Lounger Originals, Wrekmeister Harmonies

Music, Music Review Mar 27, 2020
Spend quality time in quarantine with your new favorite Chicago albums

Close your eyes and picture yourself at your favorite local venue while listening to these new releases.
- By Jamie Ludwig
- Tags: Music Review, album reviews, avant-garde, concerts, coronavirus, COVID-19, Deeper, Drama, Facs, Helen Money, hip-hop, indie rock, Melkbelly, music, musicians, noise music, postpunk, punk rock, R&B, Radiohead, rap, records, Sampa the Great, shelter-in-place, Sterling Hayes, Stuck, Thom Yorke

Music, Music Review Mar 26, 2020
Recommended
Drama’s new Dance Without Me is for sad-but-sexy folks everywhere
- By Jessi Roti
- Tags: Music Review, Drama, Dance Without Me, electro, R&B, Gallows, Na'el Shehade, Via Rosa, 7:04 AM, Lifetime, Recommended

Music, Concert Preview Oct 11, 2019
Recommended
Ghostly International celebrates two decades of putting out eclectic electronic sounds
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: Concert Preview, Ghostly International, Michigan, Ghostly 20, Sam Valenti IV, Matthew Dear, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Thomas Fec, Tobacco, Shigeto, Drama, Steve Hauschildt, Emeralds, New York, electronic sounds, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 22, 2018
Eclipse Theatre rescues The Dark at the Top of the Stairs from being just another curio

The production deals with a number of social issues without allowing them to upstage the story.
- By Jack Helbig
- Tags: Theater Review, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, Eclipse Theatre Company, William Inge, Jerrell L. Henderson, Aneisa Hicks, Chris Daley, racism, anti-semitism, class, economy, drama, Oklahoma

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 22, 2018
Plainclothes takes a look behind the security cameras at a department store

It doesn't quite ring true, but it's still a successful work comedy.
- By Dan Jakes
- Tags: Theater Review, Plainclothes, Broken Nose Theatre, Den Theatre, Spenser Davis, Michael Perlman, At the Table, Kanomeacute Jones, Michigan Avenue, comedy, drama

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 8, 2018
Málaga, a play about a satanic babysitter, is an absolutely serious melodrama

Theatre Y's adaptation gets distracted by lots of clunky video-projection gimmickry.
- By Max Maller
- Tags: Theater Review, Málaga, Theatre Y, Raven Theatre, Lukas Bärfuss, Neil Blackadder, Katie Simpson, Eric K. Roberts, drama

Music, Concert Preview Oct 11, 2018
Recommended
Chicagoans Via Rosa and Na’el Shehade revel in all the queasy feelings of romantic love as Drama
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Concert Preview, Drama, Via Rosa, Na’el Shehade, Lies After Love, Recommended

Music, In Rotation Jan 24, 2018
Video
Via Rosa of Drama on an Egyptian hit that transcends language barriers

Plus: Ciera Mckissick of AMFM gallery on Jaden Smith’s off-brand Batman, the Reader’s Leor Galil on the boy band he’s trying to join, and more
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: In Rotation, Awesome L, Awesome L & His Posse, rap, hip-hop, Dolores O’Riordan, Cranberries, Zombie, Brockhampton, Kevin Abstract, Saturation, Ciera Mckissick, AMFM gallery, Via Rosa, Drama, Santana, Amigos, Wild Thoughts, Rihanna, Maria Maria, Let It Shine, David Brown, Dance Sister Dance (Baila Mi Hermana), Jaden Smith, Willow Smith, Syre, Batman, Freddie Old Soul, Lost, All Black Trill Shit, Noahs Art, Un Poco Loco, Coco, Miguel, Fela, Fela Kuti, Mabinuori Kayode Idowu, ID, Expensive Shit, macrobiotic, Amr Diab, Tamally Maak, Na’el Shehade, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 5, 2016
Fox’s Houdini & Doyle needs more magic

This new drama should just leave the past in the past.
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Small Screen, Television, Paranormal, Houdini & Doyle, Harry Houdini, Arthur Conan Doyle, Fox, drama, crime, mystery, Rebecca Liddiard, Stephen Mangan, Michael Weston

Blogs, Bleader Mar 23, 2016
How The Americans gets away with misrepresenting Russia

It's pretty simple: by being a great TV show.
- By Dmitry Samarov
- Tags: Arts, Small Screen, Television, The Americans, FX, Russia, USSR, drama, Keri Russel, Matthew Rhys, Ivan Drago

Blogs, Bleader Feb 2, 2016
The People v. O.J. Simpson finds a new way to tell a familiar story

Ryan Murphy's new true-crime serial premieres on FX.
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Crime, Small Screen, Television, FX, American Crime Story, The People v. O.J. Simpson, O.J. Simpson, Robert Kardashian, Nicole Simpson, Cuba Gooding Jr., David Schwimmer, Robert Shapiro, John Travolta, drama

Blogs, Bleader Dec 2, 2015
The Man in the High Castle imagines a world ruled by Nazis

Amazon's latest original series tackles Philip K. Dick's novel, in which America lost World War II.
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, It's Complicated, Small Screen, Television, The Man in the High Castle, Amazon, Nazi, Japanese, drama, United States, World War II

Blogs, Bleader Mar 25, 2015
Can The Royals dethrone the Kardashians?

E! created a not real awful family for us to watch. Thanks?
- By Gwynedd Stuart
- Tags: Arts, Television, Small Screen, the royals, e!, the kardashians, kim kardashian, the rest of the kardashians, kris jenner, royalty, beverly hills 90210, drama

Film, Movie Review Jan 28, 2015
Recommended
Jennifer Aniston finds her inner ugly in Cake

The veteran comic actress takes the dramatic plunge as a woman incapacitated by pain.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Cake, drama, Jennifer Aniston, Daniel Barnz I Frances, Monster, The Hours, Jessica Lange, Nicole Kidman, Charlize Theron, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Jul 16, 2013
Home/Land takes a trip downtown

The Albany Park Theater Project's passionate exploration of undocumented immigrants opens Thursday at the Goodman.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Opening, Theater, Arts, Neighborhoods, Home/Land, Albany Park Theater Project, Goodman Theatre, drama, immigration, undocumented immigrants, plays, David Feiner, Asher Klein, Jan Schakowsky, Bobby Rush, Tammy Duckworth, immigration reform, Albany Park, Henry Godinez

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Nov 7, 2012
Listen up, playwrights! And avoid Bulrusher's three fatal flaws

A brief tutorial on modern drama, illustrated with examples from Eisa Davis's play
- By Justin Hayford
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Congo Square Theatre, Eisa Davis, Anderson Valley, California, racism, lesbians, drama, drama theory

Film, Movie Critic's Choice May 5, 2005
3-Iron
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Critic's Choice, South Korea, Drama, Silent Film

Film, Movie Critic's Choice Jun 24, 2004
Abouna (Our Father)
- By Fred Camper
- Tags: Movie Critic's Choice, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Chad, Drama, Islam, American, French, Arabic

Arts & Culture, Theater Critic's Choice Jan 24, 2002
Acts of Mercy
- By Justin Hayford
- Tags: Theater Critic's Choice, Michael John Garces, Drama, Cuban-American, Family

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In the past few weeks, we’ve recommended three dozen Bandcamp releases—and this Friday, the service will again pass its share of revenue along to artists.

Close your eyes and picture yourself at your favorite local venue while listening to these new releases.

The production deals with a number of social issues without allowing them to upstage the story.

It doesn't quite ring true, but it's still a successful work comedy.

Theatre Y's adaptation gets distracted by lots of clunky video-projection gimmickry.

Plus: Ciera Mckissick of AMFM gallery on Jaden Smith’s off-brand Batman, the Reader’s Leor Galil on the boy band he’s trying to join, and more

This new drama should just leave the past in the past.

It's pretty simple: by being a great TV show.

Ryan Murphy's new true-crime serial premieres on FX.

Amazon's latest original series tackles Philip K. Dick's novel, in which America lost World War II.

E! created a not real awful family for us to watch. Thanks?

The veteran comic actress takes the dramatic plunge as a woman incapacitated by pain.

The Albany Park Theater Project's passionate exploration of undocumented immigrants opens Thursday at the Goodman.

A brief tutorial on modern drama, illustrated with examples from Eisa Davis's play

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