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Nancy S Bishop

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Review, Stages, Theater

Steppenwolf’s The Burn Remixes Mean Girls With Young Witches of Salem

Theater review. Philip Dawkins’ new play, The Burn, blends today’s online world with Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. The real life “mean girls” in The Burn are distant cousins of the […]

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Today

Dem Lawmakers Demand Madigan Investigation After Second Harassment Firing

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Democratic lawmakers demanded Tuesday that an investigator outside the House Speaker’s office do a deep dive into sexual harassment and abuse cases under Madigan’s watch. Former campaign director Kevin Quinn […]

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Stages, Theater

Breach at Victory Gardens: Love and Relationships, Sitcom Style

Breach: a manifesto on race in america through the eyes of a black girl recovering from self-hate is a world premiere at Victory Gardens Theater. The play’s long title might […]

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Stages, Theater

Haven Theatre’s Fear and Misery in the Third Reich: Brecht’s Ghost Warns Us About Fascist Dictatorship

Fear and Misery in the Third Reich can be described as Bertolt Brecht’s ghost arriving to warn us about the United States of Donald Trump turning into a fascist dictatorship. […]

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Stages, Theater Festival

Rhinofest Continues for the 29th Year: We Review and Comment

Chicago’s longest-running fringe festival, the annual Rhinoceros Theater Festival, now in its 29th year, is presenting shows six nights a week through February 25. Rhinofest is produced by Prop Thtr […]

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Today

Chicago Housing Market Might Make It Attractive for Amazon HQ2

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Chicago’s slow-to-recover housing market might make it look good to Amazon in its search for its HQ2 site, says Crain’s real estate specialist, Dennis Rodkin. Chicago not only has lower […]

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Today

Pritzker’s Big Charitable Donations Cost Fed and State Treasuries

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J.B. Pritzker is the richest candidate to ever run for Illinois governor and may also be the most charitable. But he has donated what amounts to found money and paid no […]

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Stages, Theater

Nice Girl at Raven Theatre: Sweet, Heartfelt Story of Four People Whose Lives Aren’t What They Hoped

Josephine is the nice girl. She’s so nice that she remains living at home with her mother, working in a dead-end job, when she really wants to do what she […]

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Today

Old Cook County Hospital Building to Be Redeveloped as Multi-Use Site

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The old Cook County Hospital building at 1825 W. Harrison St., vacant for 15 years, will be restored as a hotel, administrative/medical offices and ground floor retail in a $130 […]

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Stages, Theater

Goodman’s Blind Date Stars the World on the Cusp of Change

The blind date actually took place on November 19, 1985, in Geneva. Nothing much happened diplomatically; the world order wasn’t changed. But the two leaders of the U.S. and the […]

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Lit, Live lit events, Poetry

Kevin Coval Celebrates Chicago History in Poetry and Hip-Hop at Driehaus Museum

The evening opened with DJ Cash-Era playing some tunes as the audience gathered in the elegant ballroom of the Richard Driehaus Museum, that mansion of the Gilded Age. The ballroom’s […]

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Stages, Theater

1960s Nuclear Fears Animate We’re Gonna Be Okay at American Theater Company

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We’re Gonna Be Okay is a cold-war era story that reminds us that when danger is in the air, it’s time to take stock of our priorities—and give a little […]

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