Both highly collaborative art forms often play on improvisation and the music of chance.
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Julia Sweeney is done making terrible movies
The former SNL cast member, now Older and Wider, looks back on life post-Pat.
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The Reader’s guide to the Chicago Jewish Film Festival, which starts this weekend
The second editon of the annual festival opens Saturday at Century 12/CineArts 6 in Evanston.
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An oral history of the Green Mill
The Green Mill has more stories than any tavern in town. Here are a few from the past three decades.
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A tale of two minstrel shows
A teacher at West Chicago High School said he’d planned a student minstrel show to start a conversation about racism. Was he serious?
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The good fight continues in Chicago’s rep houses
Considering the radical silliness of three American comedies playing in Chicago this week