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Review: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Wind Ensemble Excels Under Duress at Mandel Hall

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Interview: Coming Up at the Den Theatre—Dewayne Perkins Is Better Than You, and That’s OK

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Review: In Michael Jackson Biopic, Michael Gets a Highlight Reel, Audiences Get the Greatest Hits, But No One Gets the Full Truth

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Review: The Elgin Master Chorale and Director/Conductor Andrew Lewis Produce a Masterful Performance of Stacy Garrop’s Terra Nostra in Elgin

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Review: A Slow-Paced but Beautifully Poignant Evil Does Not Exist Explores a Small Community’s Connection to Nature

Following his 2021 Oscar-winning Drive My Car, writer/director Ryusuke Hamaguchi (whose also excellent Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy was released stateside the same year) takes a more oblique but no less potent and […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • May 10, 2024
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: I Saw the TV Glow Blends a Stark Visual Style with a Compelling, Creepy Teenage Story

    Under its super-charged surface story of an obsessed young fan of a TV show, I Saw the TV Glow has a great deal going on, including the story of an identity transformation […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • May 10, 2024
    • Essays , Fiction , Lit , Museum , Nonfiction , Poetry , Writing

    Review: Watching the Writer’s Mind Work, Write Cut Rewrite: The Cutting Room Floor of Modern Literature, by Dirk Van Hulle and Mark Nixon

    Everyone, I suppose, has a sense of the what-if of history. What if Abraham Lincoln hadn’t gone to Ford’s Theater that night and avoided assassination? What if I had taken a […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • May 10, 2024
    • Beyond , Event , Event , Games & Tech

    Preview: LudoNarraCon brings Immersive Indie Narrative Games to the Forefront in This Weekend’s Festival

    It’s con and festival season and while some fests require proper attire, accommodations, and a good amount of water so you don’t pass out, others simply require you to kick […]

  • Marielle Bokor
  • May 9, 2024
    • Interviews , Stages , Theater

    Interview: A Red Orchid Theatre Takes on a Werewolf Story of Love and Isolation. We Discuss Turret with Playwright Levi Holloway and Actor Lawrence Grimm

    A Red Orchid Theatre’s newest production Turret is a world premiere written and directed by Levi Holloway, whose recent works have included a Broadway run of his play Grey House, […]

  • Row Light
  • May 9, 2024
    • Front page

    Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 5/9 and Beyond

    It’s Mother’s Day weekend! Whether you’re completely ready for the grand day or need some ideas for things to do to celebrate, we have you covered. There are so many […]

  • Julian Ramirez
  • May 9, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: An Explosive World Premiere Tells a Little-Known Milwaukee Story of Anti-Immigrant Hostility

    A world premiere by Martin Zimmerman chronicles one of Milwaukee’s least-known historical events: the 1917 bombing of a police department and the subsequent indictment of imprisoned Italian immigrants who were […]

  • Anne Siegel
  • May 8, 2024
  • The Divorcees by Rowan Beaird
    • Lit , Reviews

    Review: A Dazzling Debut—The Divorcées, by Rowan Beaird

    No-fault divorces are currently legal in every US state, making it relatively easy to end an unhappy marriage. It may be hard to imagine how recently “irreconcilable differences” were not […]

  • Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch
  • May 8, 2024
  • Scottie Kersta-Wilson, “Helo Girl”
    • Art & Museums , Gallery , Photography

    Review: Carma Lynn Park and Scottie Kersta-Wilson—Catching a Glimpse With a New Perspective

    The current exhibition at the Austin-Irving Library is Glimpses that features photographs by Carma Lynn Park and Scottie Kersta-Wilson.  Although they each have a different approach in their art, together […]

  • Thomas Wawzenek
  • May 7, 2024
    • Art & Museums , Installation , Museum , Painting & sculpture

    Review: Christina Ramberg’s Female Torso Imagery at the Art Institute Reminds Us of the Glory Days of the Chicago Imagists

    Christina Ramberg, a Chicago artist who devoted many of her paintings to images of the female torso, cinched in and bulging out of feminine undergarments, is celebrated in a new Art […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • May 7, 2024
    • Classical , Music , Reviews

    Review: Third Coast Percussion and Jessie Montgomery Give a Moving Performance

    Third Coast Percussion gave another wonderful performance at DePaul’s Gannon Auditorium on Friday night. The program included several works that have appeared on recent TCP releases. Highlights, however, were provided […]

  • Louis Harris
  • May 6, 2024
  • Jason Alexander makes his Chicago stage debut in the world premiere comedy Judgment Day at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel. In The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare through May 26, 2024. Photo by Liz Lauren.
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s Judgment Day Is a Laugh-Out-Loud Comedy with Heart

    Sammy (Jason Alexander) and Father Michael (Daniel Breaker) sit in a car with binoculars. It’s dark, and they are on a stakeout outside a bar—anxious to find anything they can […]

  • Lauren Katz
  • May 6, 2024
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