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- Arts & Culture, Ghost Light Mar 11, 2021
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Lanise Antoine Shelley is opening up the House
The new artistic director wants to take 'amazing feats of storytelling' into more diverse realms; Rick Bayless wants to give more money to local theaters.
- Arts & Culture, Ghost Light Feb 25, 2021
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Celebrating Chicago Theatre Week—a year into the pandemic
This year's lineup offers a smorgasbord of online options; plus honoring Felicia P. Fields and remembering Edward S. Weil Jr. and Sally Banes
- Arts & Culture, Ghost Light Feb 12, 2021
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ComedySportz moves out of its Belmont Avenue venue
But the comedy games continue online; plus Raven announces a new-play development commission.
- Arts & Culture, Ghost Light Jan 25, 2021
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Miranda González of UrbanTheater Company on what 'cultural triage' means for BIPOC theaters
"We need to not only be trusted, but also championed."
- Arts & Culture, Ghost Light Jan 15, 2021
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Post-pandemic, will we see triage for the arts?
Brian Loevner thinks arts organizations should consider new ways to survive—and close.
- Arts & Culture, Ghost Light Dec 31, 2020
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Looking back in gratitude
In the pandemic, performing artists took care of each other. We should take better care of them.
- Arts & Culture, Ghost Light Dec 4, 2020
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Changes in faces, closing up spaces, and an abolitionist playwright gets more recognition
A departure at PrideArts, an arrival at Second City, and the closing of the Frontier and Understudy; Kristiana Rae Colón wins a new prize.
- Arts & Culture, Ghost Light Nov 19, 2020
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Thanks and giving
Stages are dark, but Chicago theater and dance companies still keep a light on.
- Arts & Culture, Ghost Light Nov 6, 2020
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A new DAWN for arts funding?
Matthew-Lee Erlbach wants to cut the creative sector in on a new deal; the Equity Jeff Awards go virtual.
- Arts & Culture, Ghost Light Oct 22, 2020
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Black Magic and Call for the Wailing Women offer two views on grief
Black women deal with loss in new digital plays by Perceptions Theatre and Black Lives Black Words.
- Arts & Culture, Ghost Light Sep 11, 2020
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The MCA and Smart Museum provide tool kits for plague times
Yanira Castro, Meshell Ndegeocello, and Irene Hsiao create performance pieces for the at-home audience; Pride comes out of the closet with a new name.
- Arts & Culture, Ghost Light Jul 30, 2020
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From Greenhouse to hotbed
A show reopens and closes under fire; plus new leadership and a new funding initiative for Black theater makers
- Arts & Culture, Ghost Light Jul 16, 2020
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A manifesto, a performance art protest, and the return of (some) live theater
We See You W.A.T. and Honk for Justice focus on anti-racism; Greenhouse and Random Acts of Theater dip into live performance again.