Tina Fakhrid-Deen’s latest play, Pulled Punches, gives audiences a close-up of a developing relationship between two characters, Isis (Melanie Victoria) and Charles (Brad Harbaugh), over the course of their 90-minute Metra ride. As Isis, a Black woman, eagerly looks forward to returning home to watch Scandal, Charles, a white adjunct African American studies professor from […]
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Drawing beyond the margins
Black cartoonists from Chicago are featured in a new book and included in a new exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
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Free-jazz piano great Dave Burrell plays a rare Chicago show
The only time I’ve seen wild jazz pianist Dave Burrell play live was in an odd setting for him—he joined free-jazz bass titan William Parker for a program called “The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield” at the Chicago Jazz Festival in 2009. The ensemble also included drummer and musical polymath Hamid Drake and writer Amiri […]
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The final 15 minutes of Dutch Masters are devastating
But Greg Keller’s script takes way too long to get there.
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A people’s history of Kevin Coval
Louder Than a Bomb cofounder Kevin Coval in the words of people in Chicago’s poetry, spoken-word, and hip-hop scenes whose lives he’s touched
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Dutchman and TRANSit: A double bill of provocation
American Blues Theater revives Amiri Baraka’s searing one-act alongside a new commission that puts gender identity in the spotlight.
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Ten best bets for fall theater
A satanic hand puppet, a live version of Cheers, and a Twelfth Night in Hindi are among this season’s highlights.
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Fred Anderson Birthday Benefit Festival
The Velvet Lounge celebrates Fred Anderson’s 81st birthday with a string of tribute shows.
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William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
Yony Leyser’s documentary “William S. Burroughs: A Man Within” and Thomas Woschitz’s “Universalove” open the Chicago International Movies and Music Festival on Thursday, March 4.
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William Burroughs, Unabridged
Jonathan Leyser works to finish the first documentary covering William Burroughs’s entire life.