The Artistic Home’s production of Eurydice is, to use a word dropped throughout the show, interesting. On one of the first cold Saturday nights of the year, I left the production (directed by Kathy Scambiattera) ambivalent. Sarah Ruhl’s upheaval of the ancient myth is gorgeous and juicy, layered with a disdain for macho mythology and […]
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The Tall Girls; Priscilla, Queen of the Desert; and eight more new theater reviews
A League of One’s Own for Depression-era women’s basketball and a musical based on the Australian cult classic are among this week’s best bets.
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A Full House musical, Sara Ruhl’s Eurydice, and 11 more new stage shows to see
How about a joyously trashy revival of Porn Minus Porn?
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Chicago French Film Festival: Naturalist dramas and formalist filmmaking
Select reviews of screenings at this year’s Chicago French Film Festival, hosted by the Music Box Theatre.
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Master filmmaker Alain Resnais, still elusive at 90
Taking a first crack at his latest (but not last) feature, You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet, screening tonight at the European Union Film Festival
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Our guide to week three of the European Union Film Festival
Isabelle Huppert stars in My Worst Nightmare this week
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Metamorphoses transformed
Mary Zimmerman and Lookingglass Theatre Company revisit Metamorphoses 14 years later.