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Review: Remy Bumppo Theatre Brings Art to Life and Life to Art with Yazmina Reza’s Comic Drama

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In 2017, White Reaper released an album proclaiming them as “The World’s Best American Band,” which was hilariously tongue in cheek coming from a band that is actually incredibly modest […]

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  • Steve Prokopy
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    The problem with Cats, the stage or movie musical, isn’t that it’s difficult to understand, as many may claim. The issue is figuring out the point of it. What life […]

  • Steve Prokopy
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    Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 12/19 – 12/22

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  • Julian Ramirez
  • December 19, 2019
    • Game , Games & Tech , Tabletop

    Review: Discover Strange New Worlds with the Second Mission Compendium for Star Trek Adventures Role-Playing Game

      I love Star Trek Adventures. It’s a tabletop pen and paper role-playing game that takes place in the Star Trek universe of films and TV shows. In it, you […]

  • Antal Bokor
  • December 19, 2019
  • Star Wars Rise of Skywalker
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    Review: As It Ends an Era, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Gets Too Nostalgic for Its Own Good

    I think I went into this most recent (and supposedly final) Star Wars with the right attitude: I didn’t pin my hopes and dreams on the filmmakers bringing us back […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 18, 2019
    • Music , Reviews

    Review: Mount Eerie and Julie Doiron Return to Lost Wisdom and Share it with Thalia Hall

    There was an eleven year gap between Julie Doiron and Phil Elverum (Mount Eerie) Lost Wisdom albums. A whole mess of love, loss, births, and revivals have happened in the […]

  • Julian Ramirez
  • December 18, 2019
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: Chicago’s History Flames Again in Burning Bluebeard by the Ruffians

    As part of its 25th anniversary season, Porchlight Music Theatre is presenting the Ruffians’ indispensable Christmas show Burning Bluebeard. Inspired by the 1903 Iroquois Theatre fire, Burning Bluebeard is hardly typical Christmas […]

  • June Sawyers
  • December 17, 2019
  • The Light in the Piazza Chicago
    • Opera , Stages

    Review: Fall in Love in Italy This Holiday with The Light in the Piazza at Lyric Opera

    “Mother, what happened here?” The innocent question that opens The Light in the Piazza has a loaded answer. Clara Johnson (Solea Pfeiffer) and her mother Margaret (Renée Fleming) step into […]

  • Jessica Mlinaric
  • December 17, 2019
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: Should We Fear Disease or Demagogues in Trap Door’s The White Plague?

    The White Plague or a new form of leprosy is what everyone fears in the new play at Trap Door Theatre. However, the disease described in Czech playwright Karel Čapek’s […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • December 15, 2019
    • Comedy , Review , Stages

    Review: The Second City Asks Do You Believe in Madness?

      The Second City’s 108th revue, Do You Believe in Madness?, is a bright look at dark times. Under the direction of Ryan Bernier, the cast well-represents the East Coast here […]

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  • December 14, 2019
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