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Nancy S Bishop

ARTICLES: 725
Stages, Theater, Virtual

Review: Did You Miss Smokefall the First Time? Catch Goodman’s 2013 Story of Love and Pain Streaming Now

Violet is pregnant with twin boys, due to arrive soon. She talks and sings to them constantly, introducing them to their family and friends and to their lives to come […]

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Stages, Theater

Review: Remy Bumppo’s Radio Play—Artist Descending a Staircase—Is a Tom Stoppard Delight

Modern art, death and trippy art talk, as only Tom Stoppard can write it. That’s the best reason to listen to Remy Bumppo Theatre Company’s latest production, a radio play […]

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Dialogs, Lit, Live lit events

Dialogs: We Examine the Short Story with George Saunders and Four Russian Masters in CHF Event

As if to prove his versatility as a writer and creator, George Saunders’ latest book, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, is not a work of his own […]

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Lit, Nonfiction, Stages

Review: Another Day’s Begun Recasts Thornton Wilder’s Our Town as a Play That Speaks to Our Time

Another Day’s Begun: Thornton Wilder’s Our Town in the 21st Century By Howard Sherman Metheun Drama, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Like most theater critics and theater lovers, I’ve seen Thornton Wilder’s […]

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Lit, Live lit events, Nonfiction

Dialogs: The Pentagon Papers 50 Years Later with Geoffrey Stone and Guests in CHF Event

Fifty years ago, Daniel Ellsberg, an economist and military analyst, created a national controversy that resulted in a landmark press freedom decision by the US Supreme Court. He did it […]

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Stages, Theater, Virtual

Review: Strawdog’s How Do We Navigate Space? Choreographs Chicagoans in Pandemic Living

Strawdog Theatre’s final entry in their season of resilience celebrates Chicagoans and how they are blundering through and surviving a raging pandemic. How Do We Navigate Space? is a series […]

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Front page

The Plague Year: We’d Rather Not Celebrate This Anniversary

Everyone is observing this one-year anniversary of the day our world changed. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker announced a stay-at-home order to take effect at 5pm on Saturday, March 21, 2020. […]

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Stages, Theater, Virtual

Review: Steppenwolf’s Duchess! Duchess! Duchess! Skirts Issues in Favor of Entertainment

Many Americans seem to have a British-Royals obsession that has never made sense to me. Steppenwolf Theatre’s newest online production in its Steppenwolf NOW streaming series plays on that royals […]

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Stages, Theater, Virtual

Review: Lauren Gunderson’s The Catastrophist Dramatizes Viruses and a Scientist’s Life

The Catastrophist, by Lauren M. Gunderson, succeeds as a story that informs us about science and tears at our hearts about love, death and grieving. It soars from the scientific […]

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Theater

Previews: Chicago Theaters Schedule New Works and Classics for Streamed Performances

Chicago theater companies are scheduling new virtual experiences as we approach the first anniversary of pandemic theater. Some are live streamed and some filmed—all will be available from your living […]

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Audio, Stages, Virtual

Review: Cabinet of Curiosity Creates The Cabinet, an Old Time Radio Drama With Modern Twists

“What evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows….” “The Shadow” was a midcentury radio mystery that sometimes kept a little girl from sleeping. My mother finally tried […]

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Magic, Stages

Review: Missed Connections Is Virtual Magic and Mind-Bending Tricks With a Few New Friends

Missed Connections, Jon Tai’s magic and mystery show, is a cozy hour of entertainment laced with his stories of, yes, actual missed connections. Tai and his co-creator, Alex Gruhin, offer […]

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