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Painting of Susan Nussbaum, wearing a red shirt and blue pants, with a colorful shawl over her left shoulder. She is sitting on a balcony with a park and the lake behind her. Various objects float in the sky nearby, including a red pump shoe, a compact with her smiling face reflected, a pencil, a piece of paper, and a burning steering wheel.

Susan Nussbaum, 1953-2022

by Mike Ervin May 12, 2022May 12, 2022

Editor’s note: Chicago playwright, novelist, actor, director, and disability rights activist Susan Nussbaum died April 28 of pneumonia at 68. Playwright Mike Ervin, who collaborated with Nussbaum as cowriter on the comedy revue The Plucky and Spunky Show and whose 1999 play, The History of Bowling, was directed by Nussbaum, remembers his friend and mentor. […]

Arts & 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.

Blogs

Early gunpowder was made from the ‘pisse’ of church ladies, and other historical tidbits

by Michael Miner January 29, 2016August 18, 2021

Here’s a rule of thumb that will never let you down: if you come across a magazine more than 20 years old, pick it up.

Arts & Culture

Susan Nussbaum’s next act

by Sam Worley May 30, 2013August 19, 2021

Celebrated playwright and disability rights activist Susan Nussbaum adds a novel, Good Kings Bad Kings, to her body of work.

Blogs

Things you should read: David Grann’s “The Yankee Comandante”

by Tal Rosenberg May 22, 2012August 19, 2021

Spending an hour or two with David Grann’s “The Yankee Comandante”