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Last fall for the Destinos: Chicago International Latino Theater Festival, Aguijón Theater (the oldest Latinx company in the city) unveiled the world premiere of Rey Andújar's La Gran …
From "Baby I Need Your Loving" by the Four Tops to "Money" by Cardi B, everything about this chilling production, including the score, muddles the gap between past and present. […]
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If you want to move beyond schlock and shock into an elevated horror experience this October, look no further than House of the Exquisite Corpse"A Haunted Puppet Anthology at Chopin […]
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This is a play of tiny moments and small details, a play in which characters change slowly, the way people and seasons change"silently, imperceptibly at first and then with the […]
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Gabriel (Dominick Vincent Alesia) and Emmett (Lucas Matteson) are strangers in a strange land. Robbed and left out in the middle of nowhere after a bar brawl with a biker […]
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As the single most-produced contemporary playwright in the Goodman Theater's history, Rebecca Gilman has provided audiences with some truly perceptive, unflinching depictions of life's varie…
J. Nicole Brooks's adaptation of 1919, Eve L. Ewing's collection of poems published a century after the "Red Summer" race riot in Chicago sparked by the murder of Eugene Williams, […]
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As someone whose older sisters are over a dozen years her senior, Sancocho (presented by Visión Latino Theatre Company as part of the fifth Destinos: Chicago International Latino Theater …
Theatre Above the Law returns to the fairy tales collected by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, as adapted again by Michael Dalberg. (Dalberg's adaptation of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll […]
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If you're a fan of The Notebook"either the romantically waterlogged, sugary-sentimental 2004 movie or the Nicholas Sparks novel that prompted it"you'll probably be swept away by the musical,…
Playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury had too many things in mind when she wrote this play about Mary Seacole, a real-life Jamaican-born healer who improbably served in the 19th-century Crimean W…
Director Dusty Brown, who makes their Chicago directing debut with Three Crows Theatre's storefront staging of Shakespeare's Macbeth, has trimmed the tragedy down to a fast-paced, intermissi…
Why did it have to be snakes? I don't have especially strong feelings about them, and yet in the last few years I've accidentally become an expert on the deranged world of snakesploitation h…
"Good things come to those who wait," the adage goes. Back in the summer of 2009, I found myself in Chicago as an alternative journalism fellow at Medill, and I […]
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Jake Schneider's path in life was derailed by Shabbat. In college, he majored in economics and planned to be a businessman, but after he started cooking Friday Sabbath dinner for […]
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Adam Carston created Windy City Ballyhoo on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. It's a repository of Chicago movie ads, photographs, and film reviews from the last century.Â
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Albert Chen (Christopher Thomas Pow) is sitting on a park bench eating what appears to be a burrito or a hot pocket when a hunched old man, dressed in an […]
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Some who have submissive desires and traumatic sexual histories find BDSM therapeutic.
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When Michael Fanone, the former Trump supporter and D.C. cop who nearly died at the hands of the January 6 mob at the U.S. Capitol, comes to the Chicago Humanities […]
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When the police bring too many risks with them, where can you turn in a crisis?
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As fall settles into Chicago, a ghostly chill raises the hackles of those attuned to a different kind of presence in the city's streets. We live in a city of […]
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When most employees speak of "juggling" tasks or "jumping through hoops" at their place of employment, they're speaking metaphorically, but for future participants in CircEsteem's Social Cir…
E3 Radio is a proud member of the Chicago Independent Media Alliance (CIMA), a partnership of independent, local media entities. Today through October 17th, you can donate to our #WeAmplifyC…
What happens when award-winning playwright Tony Kushner, Top Chef Rick Bayless, and TikTok sensation Shermann "Dilla" Thomas walk into a room? Join us on October 19, 6:00 pm CST to […]
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The High Speed Rail Alliance aims to make trains a more practical option for getting across Chicago and the nation In the second part of the Reader's series spotlighting advocacy […]
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