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Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Mar 1, 2017
The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Gender Breakdown, and nine more stage shows to see now

A black Irish comedy and a look at inequity in the local theater scene are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Martin McDonagh, Bluebird Arts, Luda Lopatina Solomon, Jaimelyn Gray, Kate Harris, The Best of Bri-Ko, Brian Posen, Brian Peterlin, Tim Soszko, Blue Man Group, clowning, sketch comedy, silent comedy, Carmina Burana, The Columnist, David Auburn, Philip Earl Johnson, Keira Fromm, American Blues Theater, Creatives, Irvine Welsh, Don De Grazio, Chicago Theatre Workshop, Simple Minds, Happy Mondays, Tom Mullen, AstonRep Theatre Company, Alexandra Bennett, Sarah C. Lo, Debra Rodkin, Jeremiah Barr, Derek Bertelsen, Eugene Onegin, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Lyric Opera, Alexander Pushkin, Michael Levine, Robert Carsen, Metropolitan Opera, Mariusz Kwiecień, Ana María Martínez, Alisa Kolosova, Charles Castronovo, Dmitry Belosselskiy, Aleyo Perez, Collaboraction, Gender Breakdown, Profiles Theatre, Not in Our House, Dani Bryant, Erica Vannon, Forum Productions, Jesus the Jew as Told by His Brother James, Steven Strafford, the Cuckoo's Theater Project, Redtwist Theatre, Language of Angels, Naomi Iizuka, Jenna Liddle, Marc James, Private Eyes, Steven Dietz, Piccolo Theatre, Michael D. Graham, Megan DeLay, Kurt Preopper, Edward Fraim, Venus in Fur, David Ives, Circle Theatre, Zach Livingston, Arti Ishak, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Charlotte Drover

Blogs, Bleader Aug 29, 2013
Wrestling With My Father: The best four and a half minutes you'll spend at the movies this weekend

A review of a short experimental video screening as part of the Nightingale's Charles Fairbanks program on Saturday night
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: On Video, Midwestern Defensiveness, Film, Comedy, Charles Fairbanks, The Nightingale, experimental video, experimental film, film comedy, We're the Millers, The World's End, Andy Warhol, Lewis Klahr, Joseph Cornell, Owen Land, Pioneers, Wrestling With My Father, Buster Keaton, silent comedy, high school wrestling, Robert Nelson

Blogs, Bleader May 9, 2013
See Yasujiro Ozu's final silent film this Saturday

An Inn in Tokyo (1935) screens as part of the Music Box Theatre's Second Saturday Silent Cinema series
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Foreign, Film, Music Box Theatre, Second Saturday Silent Cinema, Yasujiro Ozu, An Inn in Tokyo, Passing Fancy, Kihachi, Sakamoto Takeshi, silent cinema, silent comedy, Japanese cinema, Donald Richie, A Hundred Years of Japanese Film, A Story of Floating Weeds, I Was Born But..., benshi, Roger Ebert, Manny Farber, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton

Blogs, Bleader Feb 15, 2013
Oscar-nominated animated shorts: Head Over Heels, the story of an unlikely marriage

A review of the English puppet animation
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Art House, Film, Head Over Heels, Timothy Reckart, Oscar-nominated animated shorts, 2013 Oscars, silent comedy, marriage, National Film & Television School, Pixar Studios, Ann Jonas, Round Trip

Blogs, Bleader Sep 26, 2012
Now playing: Barfi!

First impressions of the hit Bollywood comedy currently playing in town
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Film, Barfi!, Ranbin Kapoor, Bollywood, Anurag Basu, Oscars, Foreign-Language film, Saurbh Shukla, silent comedy, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Disney, UTV Motion Pictures, Priyanka Chopra

Blogs, Bleader Aug 1, 2008
Video
What's Old: Our Hospitality

This weekend's repertory gem: Our Hospitality.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Buster Keaton, Silent Film Society of Chicago, silent films, Our Hospitality, The General, The Three Ages, Steamboat Bill, Jr., Michael Jacklin, silent comedy, Video

Arts & Culture, Comedy Critic's Choice Feb 9, 1995
"The Return of Charley Chase" and "Highlighting Max Davidson"
- By Fred Camper
- Tags: Comedy Critic's Choice, Silent Comedy, Charley Chase, Max Davidson, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin

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The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Gender Breakdown, and nine more stage shows to see now

A black Irish comedy and a look at inequity in the local theater scene are among this week's best bets.

Wrestling With My Father: The best four and a half minutes you'll spend at the movies this weekend

A review of a short experimental video screening as part of the Nightingale's Charles Fairbanks program on Saturday night

See Yasujiro Ozu's final silent film this Saturday

An Inn in Tokyo (1935) screens as part of the Music Box Theatre's Second Saturday Silent Cinema series

Oscar-nominated animated shorts: Head Over Heels, the story of an unlikely marriage

A review of the English puppet animation

Now playing: Barfi!

First impressions of the hit Bollywood comedy currently playing in town

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This weekend's repertory gem: Our Hospitality.

"The Return of Charley Chase" and "Highlighting Max Davidson"

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The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Gender Breakdown, and nine more stage shows to see now

A black Irish comedy and a look at inequity in the local theater scene are among this week's best bets.

Wrestling With My Father: The best four and a half minutes you'll spend at the movies this weekend

A review of a short experimental video screening as part of the Nightingale's Charles Fairbanks program on Saturday night

See Yasujiro Ozu's final silent film this Saturday

An Inn in Tokyo (1935) screens as part of the Music Box Theatre's Second Saturday Silent Cinema series

Oscar-nominated animated shorts: Head Over Heels, the story of an unlikely marriage

A review of the English puppet animation

Now playing: Barfi!

First impressions of the hit Bollywood comedy currently playing in town

Video What's Old: Our Hospitality

This weekend's repertory gem: Our Hospitality.

"The Return of Charley Chase" and "Highlighting Max Davidson"

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What's Old: Our Hospitality