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Nancy S Bishop

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Stages, Theater

The Trojan Women by Three Crows Doesn’t Capitalize on Play’s Poetry or Anti-War Passion

Euripides’ The Trojan Women may be the greatest anti-war play ever written. And the timing is certainly right for an anti-war play. The new production of The Trojan Women by […]

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Stages, Theater

Stages Monthly: What to See in Chicago Theaters in October

October is a crazy month for arts and culture in Chicago. We have plenty of theater openings, and in addition there are festivals such as Chicago Ideas Week, Open House […]

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Beyond, Events, Lit, Museums

Read Jack Kerouac’s On the Road Scroll at the American Writers Museum

Jack Kerouac wrote On the Road in what is often described as a three-week burst of creativity. He typed furiously (100 words a minute) on his Underwood portable typewriter and […]

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Stages, Theater

Eclectic Theatre’s The Last Days of Judas Iscariot Mashes Up History, Fiction and Faith

The scene is Purgatory and it’s a big trial, presided over by a judge who was with Lee when he surrendered at Appomattox. Pontius Pilate takes the Fifth. A motley […]

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Events, Lit

Writers Museum Launches Two New Series: Surprise Bookshelf and First Books

Chicago’s American Writers Museum is launching two new program series this fall among their range of public programming relating to all forms of American writing. Tuesday First Books highlights the first […]

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Stages, Theater

An American Disaster in 2019: Building the Wall at Stage Left Theatre

If you go to the theater to get away from the nasty divisiveness of today’s news, then Stage Left Theatre’s new production, Building the Wall, is not for you. Robert […]

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Stages, Theater

Steppenwolf’s The Rembrandt: For Love of Art and Pudding

The Rembrandt slips back and forth in time from a contemporary art museum to a Renaissance-era artist’s studio, a Greek temple, and the room where an aging poet is dying. […]

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Lit, Live lit events

Chicago Authors to Read from Notorious Banned Books at Censored! on October 2

CENSORED! We Read Banned Books, an ACLU benefit, will be an evening of readings by Chicago authors from their favorite banned books, sponsored by Third Coast Review and Kill Your Darlings Live Lit. Censored will […]

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Stages, Theater

Goodman’s A View From the Bridge: Powerful Story, Visceral Language = Great Theater

Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge is performed on the most minimal of stages with few costume changes (and no shoes), thus proving that it’s really the script and […]

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Stages, Theater

Orwell’s 1984 at AstonRep Is a Chilling Dystopia, Now More Than Ever

Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell’s dystopian novel, was considered science fiction when it was published in 1949. Almost 70 years later, in an era of alternative facts and so-called fake news, […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

‘Design Double Feature’ Highlights Graphic Design and Letterpress Printing Past and Future

The Music Box Theatre is hosting a Design Double Feature on Tuesday, September 19 that will be a glorious night of film for graphic designers, typographers and fans of printing […]

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Stages, Theater

Deirdre of the Sorrows, Synge’s Romantic Irish Legend, on Stage at City Lit

Deirdre of the Sorrows by John Millington Synge is based on the Irish legend of Deirdre, set in ancient times in the Irish kingdom of Ulster. City Lit Theater is […]

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