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- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Aug 28, 2019
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Into the Woods hews a fresh, intimate path into Stephen Sondheim's musical
At Writers Theatre, Gary Griffin stages a rich and rewarding revival of the popular fairy-tale mash-up.
- Music, In Rotation Jun 28, 2019
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Veteran singer-songwriter Susan Werner on the future queen of bluegrass
Plus: Musician and artist Scott Montgomery on the very same Susan Werner, Reader coeditor in chief Karen Hawkins on a song to restart your heart, and more
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 8, 2019
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Ripped from the headlines of 1957, West Side Story still has plenty to say about 2019
The Lyric’s faithful revival addresses immigration, discrimination, and changing neighborhoods, but it’s the women who are the stars.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Oct 24, 2018
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E. Faye Butler plays Gypsy’s Mama Rose as one great, ferocious growl
The rest of Porchlight’s raucous revival shines around her.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Apr 18, 2018
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An engaging revival of Company explores the theme of marriage as partnership
No man, especially a 35-year-old bachelor, is an island.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 9, 2018
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Alvin Ailey Dance Theater and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend
Comedian Tom Papa and more goings-on March 9-11
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Aug 23, 2017
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Gypsy, Machinal, and three more new theater reviews
"The greatest book musical of all time" and a Woyzeck for the jazz age are among this week's best bets.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Jun 7, 2017
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Candide, Gidion's Knot, and ten more stage shows to see now
A revamped version of Leonard Bernstein's operetta and a taut, intense two-hander are among this week's best bets.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Apr 26, 2017
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Aladdin, Marry Me a Little, and ten more stage shows to see now
A top-notch touring Broadway show and an intimate Sondheim concept revue are among this week's notable new productions.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Oct 25, 2016
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From the $10 bill to the multimillion-dollar musical
In an extraordinarily ugly election season, the rousing Hamilton shows us the light.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Jun 30, 2016
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Anon(ymous), Pygmalion, and seven more new theater reviews
A haunting show from the Cuckoo's Theater Project and George Bernard Shaw's classic are among this week's best bets.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 10, 2015
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Pianist Anthony de Mare invites dozens of composers to reinvent Sondheim
New-music specialist Anthony de Mare performs selections from his new ECM album on Saturday at PianoForte Foundation.
- Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Nov 19, 2015
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The wrong way to approach a monogamish relationship
Yes, you can betray a willing cuckold. Plus: single and sad, the Sondheim cure vindicated
- Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Nov 12, 2015
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Can Stephen Sondheim cure a broken heart?
Dan Savage takes the Broadway musical approach to therapy.
- Film, Movie Review Feb 18, 2015
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The screen version of The Last Five Years does Jason Robert Brown's musical right
Divergent careers tear a marriage apart in Richard LaGravenese's film.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 30, 2014
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How Hollywood drains the subversion out of Into the Woods
Disney's adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's stage musical extinguishes much of the show's power.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 26, 2014
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Reader film editor placed on suicide watch—plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 14, 2014
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I'm being haunted by the ghost of Wilson Mizner!
The legendary scam artist (and sometime Hollywood screenwriter) has been turning up all over Chicago in the past several months.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 14, 2014
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Stephen Sondheim and Alain Resnais, together again in Chicago
In a fortuitous turn, Doc Films's current Alain Resnais retrospective coincides with Chicago revivals of several musicals by Stephen Sondheim, a hero and onetime collaborator of Resnais's.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 26, 2014
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Chicago Shakespeare Theater's Road Show could be a star vehicle—if it ran better
But not even Gary Griffin can soup up this late-career Sondheim musical.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 14, 2014
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First Tuesdays at the Hideout with me and Mick Dumke!
Tim Tuten invites Mick and me to talk politics every first Tuesday of the month at the Hideout.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 7, 2014
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A pettifogging journalism critic refuses to back down
On the small sins of big newspapers
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Dec 26, 2012
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Eight faves, six stars, and a horror: 2012 in theater
The best productions, beloved artists, and a show more than one Reader writer hated
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Sidebar Oct 9, 2012
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A perfect Sunday in the Park With George
Chicago Shakespeare's staging of the Sondheim musical is a walk in the, well . . .
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 28, 2012
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All the news that's fit to fix.