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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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I Want Nothing (no quid pro quo) Is the Anthem We Needed

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    • Music , Previews

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  • Jim Kopeny / Tankboy
  • November 20, 2019
    • Audio , Front page

    Playtime Radio: Venice Floods, Year of ChicagoTheater Plus Movies, Music and More

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  • Nancy S Bishop
  • November 19, 2019
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    Review: 140 LBS Weighs in on a Family’s Body Dysmorphia

    Susan Lieu’s solo show title is 140 LBS: How Beauty Killed My Mother, but it’s more a personal story. Directed by Sara Porkalob, the 75-minute story ran November 14-17 at […]

  • Karin McKie
  • November 19, 2019
    • Music , Reviews

    Review: Nellie McKay Saved a Late Start Show with a Mostly Requests Set

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  • Julian Ramirez
  • November 19, 2019
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: In Dennis Začek’s Waiting for Godot, Two Guys Are Just Hanging Out on a Country Road

    Can we agree that Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett’s 1953 play about hope and the will to keep on, belongs in the category of buddy films?  Two guys hanging out at […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • November 19, 2019
    • Music , Previews

    Last Minute Plans: Jonny Polonsky Plays Hi My Name Is Jonny At GMan Tavern Tonight

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  • Jim Kopeny / Tankboy
  • November 19, 2019
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: A Packet of Holiness and Joy, an Hour of Curious Fun by Curious Theatre Branch

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  • Nancy S Bishop
  • November 17, 2019
    • Classical , Music , Opera , Reviews

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  • Bob Benenson
  • November 17, 2019
  • The Good Liar
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  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 15, 2019
  • The Report
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