Nearly 69 years since its birth as a smash movie, the seasonally ubiquitous White Christmas remains a good, old-fashioned holiday chestnut. It also remains an objectively odious, old holiday chestnut. To say it has not aged well is to put it mildly. To put it frankly, I would like to think this is not a […]
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Siah Berlatsky shakes up Shakespeare
Siah Berlatsky just graduated this month from ChiArts, but though she’s taking a gap year before college, the 18-year-old playwright-director-actor isn’t letting the grass grow under her feet. In August, she’ll be part of Artistic Home’s outdoor developmental series, “Summer on the Patio,” with her Elizabethan-style gender-bending rom-com, Malapert Love, which she also directs. (“Malapert,” […]
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The School for Lies, At the Table, and seven more new stage shows to see now
A spritely update of the Molière classic and a revival of Broken Nose Theatre’s hit are among this week’s best bets.
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Chicago, Lady X: The Musical, and seven more new theater reviews
The hometown return of an iconic show and the tuneful reboot of a camp classic are among this week’s best bets.
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The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Gender Breakdown, and nine more stage shows to see now
A black Irish comedy and a look at inequity in the local theater scene are among this week’s best bets.
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Chicago Shakespeare’s The Heir Apparent is a forced farce
David Ives’s latest ‘transladaptation’ lacks the witty resourcefulness of his previous works.
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The cross, the crosshairs, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Love hurts in Goodman’s Venus in Fur
David Ives deliciously satirizes the novel that gave us S-M in Goodman’s Venus in Fur.
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Led by the nose in Cyrano de Bergerac
Adapted by Anthony Burgess, Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac takes on a tragic silhouette.
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Reader’s Agenda Wed 7/3: American Music Festival, The-Drum, and The Liar
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Wednesday, July 3