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. […]
Tag: Fidel Castro
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Falling, and eight more stage shows to see now
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.
Early gunpowder was made from the ‘pisse’ of church ladies, and other historical tidbits
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.
Susan Nussbaum’s next act
Celebrated playwright and disability rights activist Susan Nussbaum adds a novel, Good Kings Bad Kings, to her body of work.
Things you should read: David Grann’s “The Yankee Comandante”
Spending an hour or two with David Grann’s “The Yankee Comandante”
Music Box presents Architecture & Design Film Festival
Music Box presents the third annual Architecture & Design Film Festival
Music Box presents Architecture & Design Film Festival
Music Box presents the third annual Architecture & Design Film Festival
Music Box presents Architecture & Design Film Festival
Music Box presents the third annual Architecture & Design Film Festival
Music Box presents Architecture & Design Film Festival
Music Box presents the third annual Architecture & Design Film Festival
Stories about storeys: Architecture & Design Film Festival
Music Box presents the third annual Architecture & Design Film Festival
There he goes again
Ozzie Guillen goes into full damage control for inadvertently praising Fidel Castro in Miami
Cuba: An African Odyssey
“Cuba: An African Odyssey,” screening Monday 2/8 at Biblioteca Popular, follows Cuba’s role in African liberation campaigns from the 60s through the 80s.
Back and to the left
Former Chicagoan Jim Finn explores the story of a South Korean filmmaker kidnapped and put to work for the North Korean propaganda machine in “The Juche Idea,” screening tonight at the University of Chicago.