After earning rave reviews during its Chicago premiere last year, Matthew Lombardo’s provocative take on a holiday classic makes a triumphant return to Theater Wit. Who’s Holiday follows a now 40-year-old Cindy Lou Who (Veronica Garza) as she tells the story of the infamous night she met The Grinch Who Stole Christmas and the not-so-heartwarming […]
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Cindy Lou Who is all grown up
Christopher Pazdernik directs Matthew Lombardo’s 2017 grown-ups-only update of Dr. Seuss’s yuletide classic, How the Grinch Stole Christmas. On the outskirts of Whoville, in a modest but homey trailer, a very adult Cindy Lou Who recounts her meet-cute with the Grinch and the resulting fallout. Who’s Holiday! Through 12/26: see website for full schedule, Theater […]
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Students at Northeastern pay the price for Illinois’s budget failures
The state university is the latest victim of the two-year budget stalemate.
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The scurrilous cartoons of Dr. Seuss
Dr. Suess Goes to War reveals an ugly side of Theodor Seuss Dreisel.
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Here are 28 books we can’t wait to read in 2015
New stuff to read from Sandra Cisneros, Harper Lee, Elizabeth Gilbert, Patti Smith, and more.
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Our favorite visual art of 2014
This was a transformative year for Chicago’s art world.
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Sixteen fun facts about 16 cartoonists who changed the world
Local illustrator/designer Monte Beauchamp has two excellent new books out for devotees of comics and pulps.
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Reader’s Agenda Mon 9/29: Nasty, Brutish, and Short, ‘Hats Off to Dr. Seuss!,’ and Earth
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Monday, September 29
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How The Lorax ended up in the LBJ Presidential Library and Museum
Here’s some more stuff you didn’t know about Dr. Seuss.
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Dr. Seuss comes to Water Tower Place
The Art of Dr. Seuss Gallery shows off Ted Geisel’s beloved characters—and his lesser-known excursions into fine art.
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Reader’s Agenda Sat 6/14: “The Art of Dr. Seuss,” World Naked Bike Ride, and Nick Vatterott
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Saturday, June 14
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Alzheimer’s from the inside out
Christine Mary Dunford adapts Still Alice, Lisa Genova’s novel about early-onset Alzheimer’s, to the stage.
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Reader’s Agenda Sat 3/2: Dr. Seuss, Major Lazer, and hunger relief
What’s on the Reader’s Agenda for Saturday, March 2, 2013.
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Earth Day was the worst day, now we drink champagne when we thirst-ay
A review of the new animated feature The Lorax