Here in a pre-Broadway tryout, this show based on the novel needs a lot more wind beneath its wings.
Author Archives: Chloe Riley
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Best living Vivian Maier
Art Shay Maybe you’ve heard of Vivian Maier? The “North Shore nanny” who exploded into posthumous fame after thousands of her photos were uncovered virtually by accident? Human empathy shines in Maier’s street photography, the best of which hones in sharply on the eccentric and downtrodden. She’d have had a kindred spirit in Chicago-based photojournalist […]
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InFusion Theatre delivers a female-driven punk rock masterpiece
Riot grrrls come to terms with the past in Another Kind of Love, with music from Crystal Skillman and Heidi Rodewald.
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There’s sadism aplenty in La Casa de Bernarda Alba
Aguijón Theater’s dreamlike staging of Federico García Lorca’s La Casa de Bernarda Alba is worth the trek.
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Before their sitcom premieres, see the Katydids this weekend at Improv Fest
TV Land is about to launch the Chicago-bred improv troupe’s show Teachers.
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The Goodman’s Upstairs Concierge is, like, so five years ago
Kristoffer Diaz’s farce The Upstairs Concierge, now playing at the Goodman, is as dumb as it is dated.
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A soul-food-slinging restaurant owner on the south side has Rahm’s back
‘I love me some Rahm Emanuel’—words you don’t hear every day on Chicago’s south side
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Crime and affordable housing—issues that just won’t go away in the 46th Ward
Challenger Amy Crawford says Alderman James Cappleman hasn’t done enough to crack down on crime.
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Aldermania, round two: Welcome to the runoff elections
A look at five City Council races that show the shifting political landscape in Chicago.
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Alderman Toni Foulkes not ‘black’ enough for some 16th Ward voters
Fighting to stay in the City Council, Alderman Toni Foulkes tells voters that she is, in fact, African-American.
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A plan to use $14 million in Uptown TIF funds stalls—and a runoff looms
Affordable housing has been a divisive issue in the 46th Ward for years, but neither candidate for alderman is talking about it much before the April 7 runoff.
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The Diary of Anne Frank at Writers Theatre is stuck fast in midcentury optimism
The Diary of Anne Frank at Writers Theatre is a shaky production stuck fast in midcentury American optimism.
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Alderman Emma Mitts wants more 37th Ward charter schools
Mitts readies herself for a fight with the teachers’ union as she faces a runoff against teacher Tara Stamps.
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A 25th Ward challenger accuses Alderman Solis of election shenanigans, demands recount
Byron Sigcho is hoping a recount shows he has a few dozen more votes to force a runoff with 25th Ward alderman Danny Solis.
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The king is dead—but Lady Macbeth is alive and vibrating with power in Dunsinane
The National Theatre of Scotland returns with Dunsinane, David Greig’s imagined sequel to the Scottish play.