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Posted inArts & Culture

Arnie the Doughnut, Tangles and Plaques, and 11 more new stage shows to see

by Chicago Reader October 25, 2017August 18, 2021

A delightful kids’ show and a Neo-Futurist’s look at dementia are among this week’s best bets.

Posted inArts & Culture

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Falling, and eight more stage shows to see now

by Chicago Reader March 22, 2017August 18, 2021

Bertolt Brecht’s satire set in 1930s gangland Chicago and Interrobang Theatre’s local premiere of an off-Broadway hit are among this week’s best bets.

Posted inArts & Culture

Resolution, The Trump Card, and nine more new theater reviews

by Chicago Reader November 3, 2016August 18, 2021

A drama from Pride Films and Plays and Mike Daisey’s election monologue are among this week’s best bets.

Posted inArts & Culture

Brecht gets the hip-hop treatment in The Good Person of Szechwan

by Justin Hayford August 18, 2016August 18, 2021

But Cor Theatre’s update of the parable rings false.

Posted inArts & Culture

The Hypocrites’ Adding Machine, Factory’s The Last Big Mistake, and eight more stage shows to see now

by Chicago Reader April 8, 2016August 18, 2021

Ten new reviews of notable stage shows, among them a musical based on Elmer Rice’s expressionist 1923 satire.

Deanna Dunagan in Lookingglass Theatre's Death Watch
Posted inArts & Culture

Hnath Fest! Lookingglass and Writers Theatre present works by the same up-and-comer

by Tony Adler September 17, 2014August 18, 2021

Lookingglass and Writers Theatre present works by up-and-coming playwright Lucas Hnath, one effective, one coy.

Posted inBlogs

An interview with Richard Linklater and Northwest Chicago Film Society on film programming (part two)

by Ben Sachs July 25, 2014August 18, 2021

The second part of a conversation between the noted film director and the local repertory film organization

Posted inBlogs

Weekly Top Five: The best of Pier Paolo Pasolini

by Drew Hunt May 11, 2014August 18, 2021

Highlights from the filmography of Pier Paolo Pasolini

Noah
Posted inFilm

Darren Aronofsky’s Noah tells the story by the book

by Ben Sachs April 23, 2014August 18, 2021

Darren Aronofsky’s Noah is immersed in Judaic literature.

Amanda Drinkall, John Fenner Mays, Sarah Grant and Blake Russell, (in the background), Lona Livingston, Alex Stage
Posted inArts & Culture

Red Tape Theatre’s Hamlet Is Dead. No Gravity. presents mousetraps within mousetraps

by Tony Adler February 5, 2014August 18, 2021

Red Tape Theatre’s Hamlet Is Dead. No Gravity. presents mousetraps within mousetraps.

Posted inBlogs

Reader’s Agenda Mon 2/3: LitMash, Youth Code, and The Mother

by Jillian Sandler February 3, 2014August 18, 2021

What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Monday, February 3

David Cromer, Patrick Andrews, and Mary Beth Fisher
Posted inArts & Culture

But is The Normal Heart good?

by Tony Adler November 6, 2013August 19, 2021

TimeLine Theatre gets Larry Kramer’s important The Normal Heart pumping.

M
Posted inFilm

The (re)making of M

by J.R. Jones October 30, 2013August 19, 2021

Joseph Losey takes another crack at the Fritz Lang classic M.

Joan Allen
Posted inArts & Culture

Joan Allen can’t find her way home

by Tony Adler September 25, 2013August 19, 2021

Joan Allen returns to Steppenwolf in a literary construct called The Wheel.

Posted inBlogs

Reader’s Agenda Sun 5/12: A Mother’s Day matinee, a Marxist musical, and Coliseum

by Tosten Burks May 12, 2013August 19, 2021

What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Sunday, May 12

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