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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 […]

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

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  • Patrick T. Reardon
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  • Marielle Bokor
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    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, […]

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

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  • Anne Siegel
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  • The Divorcees by Rowan Beaird
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    Review: A Dazzling Debut—The Divorcées, by Rowan Beaird

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  • Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch
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  • Scottie Kersta-Wilson, “Helo Girl”
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    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

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

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

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

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  • Lauren Katz
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    • Beyond , Event , Review , Stages , Talk show

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