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- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Mar 23, 2021
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Omer Abbas Salem is building his own canon
With Mosque4Mosque and other plays, the MENA playwright and actor creates space for Muslim and Arab artists.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Mar 18, 2021
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Ken-Matt Martin takes over at Victory Gardens
After a tumultuous year, the theater's new artistic director is ready to listen as well as lead.
- Arts & Culture, Ghost Light Dec 15, 2020
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Ghost Gun confronts class and race
The Goodman joins the national #Enough: Plays to End Gun Violence initiative; plus a new documentary on the August Wilson Monologue Competition and an award for a dance documentarian
- Music, Music Review Oct 19, 2020
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Chicago’s Growing Concerns Poetry Collective use kindness to unite people against bigotry
- Arts & Culture, Feature May 26, 2020
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The Wild World of Animal Crossing
What is the appeal of the game that’s taking the world by storm?
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Apr 2, 2020
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Lyric, Goodman, Steppenwolf, and CSO face the music
Major performing arts organizations recalibrate for COVID-19.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Mar 27, 2020
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All your home's a stage
The best online options for enjoying theater from local, national, and international companies
- Arts & Culture, Calendar Mar 6, 2020
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Belkis Ayón retrospective, the International Women's Day Festival, and more to do this weekend
Arts and culture happenings from Fri 3/6 to Sun 3/8.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Feb 18, 2020
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Sandra Bland's life and death provides the inspiration for graveyard shift
The Goodman's production is lyrical and heartbreaking.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jan 28, 2020
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Roe is a history lesson and a warning
Lisa Loomer's docudrama examines the landmark abortion rights case.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Dec 17, 2019
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To tell the truth: 2019 in theater
Four plays that recast history—collective and personal—with searing defiance.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Dec 10, 2019
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The Santaland Diaries offers diminishing returns
Steven Strafford's Crumpet is delightful, but the material feels dated.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Oct 2, 2019
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Believable: changing the story on how plays address violence against women
The fall theater season has brought several shows about women surviving trauma—and reclaiming their stories.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Preview Oct 2, 2019
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October provides a grab bag of goodies in the performing arts
Here are ten sweet options onstage this month.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Sep 25, 2019
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A famous French actress wears the pants onstage in Bernhardt/Hamlet
Theresa Rebeck's comedy of sexual politics tests the limits of women in power.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Sep 18, 2019
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Dana H. is more than a true-crime story
Lucas Hnath's one-woman play about his mother's kidnapping centers the voice of the survivor.
- Arts & Culture, Fall Theater and Dance Sep 11, 2019
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Grit and heart: Arnel Sancianco draws on both for his evocative theater sets
With two major shows opening this fall, the designer's career is booming—but he's focused on making audiences connect emotionally with the world of the play.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jul 10, 2019
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The Music Man offers a musical conundrum at the Goodman
Mary Zimmerman’s production sings, though the gender politics creak.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 22, 2019
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The Winter's Tale of our discontent
But at least "Exit, pursued by a bear" finally makes sense.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 27, 2019
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Sweat shows how Trump's America came to be
Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer winner should be required viewing.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Feb 27, 2019
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Twilight Bowl takes a close look at overlooked lives
Five women in small-town Wisconsin search for their places in the world.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Feb 6, 2019
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The current Goodman production demonstrates How to Catch Creation
Christina Anderson's play is a triumph for director Niegel Smith and his cast.
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Dec 21, 2018
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Tired of solicitations from big nonprofits? We have just the solution for you!
With the Executive Pay Test, it’s easier than ever to decide which group deserves your hard-earned cash!
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Dec 12, 2018
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The Santaland Diaries hilariously exposes the ugly underbelly of the holiday season
Though maybe the script could stand a few updates.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Nov 29, 2018
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Here are 19 shows to get you into the holiday spirit
Christmas trains, elves, bingo, showgirls, and many, many carols, plus the Quranic perspective and Hanukkah goblins.
