Like many of the American musical theater greats, Cabaret is one of those shows that can suffer from style-creep, wherein an unwritten but generally agreed-upon aesthetic tradition grows into self-parody. For John Kander and Fred Ebb’s legendary pre-WWII Berlin-set romantic drama (based on the 1951 play I Am a Camera by John Van Druten and […]
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Desperate debauchery haunts this Cabaret
Encroaching fascism and gender fluidity make for a timely revival with Cowardly Scarecrow.
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A new documentary on David Hockney tries to replicate the ease of his artwork
Randall Wright directed this fawning portrait of the lionized British painter.
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Untitled Feminist Show: Leave your head at home
In Young Jean Lee’s Untitled Feminist Show, six performers revel in “raw body-ness.”
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Tom Ford’s Single Man
Fashion designer Tom Ford’s adaptation of Christopher Isherwood’s novel A Single Man, about a grieving gay professor during the Cuban missile crisis, screens Monday 10/19 in the Chicago International Film Festival.