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Review: At Chicago Children’s Theatre, Goodnight, Moon Has a Talented Cast in Constant Motion and Merriment

by Nancy S Bishop
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Review: Pianist Evgeny Kissin joins Andre Boreyko and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for an excellent Concert at Symphony Center

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Review: Melancholy Never Sounded So Good than with the Antlers and TOTH

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Review: French Filmmaker François Ozon Adapts Albert Camus’ The Stranger with Haunting, Art-Filled Visuals

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Review: Longtime Saturday Night Live Producer Lorne Michaels Remains an Enigma in Morgan Neville’s New Doc Lorne

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Review: American Blues Theater’s Things With Friends Is an Irritating Mess

Things With Friends, the newest play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Kristoffer Diaz, directed by Dexter Bullard, makes its debut at American Blues Theater. It’s a surrealist, climate anxiety comedy of […]

  • Adam Kaz
  • September 9, 2025
  • Jamie Lee as Penny Harris and Charles Schoenherr as Dr Daker. Photo Credit: Paul Chakrin
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Eclectic Full Contact Theatre’s Refracted Light Tackles Mental Health in Family Drama

    “Whenever I walk down a street, I find myself fascinated by the glow of windows and the curtains drawn across them, knowing that behind each one lives a world of […]

  • Lauren Katz
  • September 9, 2025
    • Cafes and restaurants , Food

    Interview: Discourse x Urbanbelly Continue Residency That Introduces the New Art of Coffee

    Ryan Castelaz isn’t one to do things along a projected plan or path. All about playfulness, passion, and creating story, Discourse Coffee’s CEO gave me, and the patrons coming up […]

  • Caroline Huftalen
  • September 9, 2025
    • Design , Fashion , Film & TV , Lit , Nonfiction

    Review: The Fabric Closest to Our Skin, The Virtues of Underwear, by Nina Edwards

    In Jane Russell’s first movie role in 1943, her bra was the star, even though it barely seemed to be there. The publicity posters for The Outlaw, directed by Howard […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • September 8, 2025
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    • Interviews , Music

    Interview: The Voice’s bodie on Being a Singer, Songwriter, and Stuntman

    When Bodie Kuljian took the stage during blind auditions for NBC’s The Voice in 2022, it took just 20 seconds for Blake Shelton to press his button to indicate his […]

  • Anthony Cusumano
  • September 8, 2025
  • Rubén Rengel, Colin Brookes, Teng Li, Eric Gratz, and Julian Schwarz. Photo by Ryan Bennett Photography.
    • Classical , Music , Reviews

    Review: The American Chamber Music Society Shows Off its Inner Voices at PianoForte Studio

    The American Chamber Music Society introduced its second season with a radiant concert at PianoForte Studio in the South Loop on Saturday night. Headed by Chicago-based violinist Eric Gratz, ACMS […]

  • Louis Harris
  • September 8, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Interview

    Interview: Filmmaker Bing Liu on Preparation for the Next Life, Casting a Uyghur Lead Actor, and Telling Immigration Stories

    Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker Bing Liu’s (Minding the Gap) latest film, Preparation for the Next Life, is about Uyghur migrant Aishe (newcomer Sebiye Behtiyar) living in New York City and […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 8, 2025
    • Feature , Front page , Stages , Storefront

    Staging Survival: How Chicago Theaters Are Responding to the Pressures of COVID and Authoritarianism

    This is the second in our series of articles on The Art of Survival, in which we explore how small Chicago arts organizations are surviving post-COVID and weathering the anti-humanist […]

  • Karin McKie
  • September 6, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Angelheaded Hipster Chronicles the Talent and Influence of Glam Rock Pioneer Marc Bolan Alongside Creating a Must-Listen Tribute Album

    From director Ethan Silverman comes this documentary, which is actually a two-in-one package. The first part is a respectable trip through the life and music of T. Rex front man […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 5, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: André Holland Stars in Love, Brooklyn, a Story of Modern Dating in a Changing New York Borough

    I’ll admit, from the first scene in director and TV series helmer Rachael Abigail Holder’s first feature, Love, Brooklyn, I was prepared to fully dislike this movie. In it, we […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 5, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Documentarian Bing Liu Brings a Keen Eye for Detail to Moving, Quietly Devastating Preparation For the Next Life

    Oscar-nominated filmmaker Bing Liu (the documentary Minding the Gap) has turned his attention toward narrative filmmaking with the heartbreaking love story Preparation for the Next Life, concerning a pair of […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 5, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: The Conjuring: Last Rites Sends the Warrens Out with a Whimper, Not a Scare

    The first two Conjuring films (both directed by James Wan) are two of the finest examples of a certain type of reality-based horror that the last couple of decades have […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 5, 2025
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