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Cabinet of Curiosity and 16th Street let Mickle Maher do it on the radio
The longtime Chicago playwright joins a new mini-renaissance of aural drama.
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Celebrating Chicago Theatre Week—a year into the pandemic
This year’s lineup offers a smorgasbord of online options; plus honoring Felicia P. Fields and remembering Edward S. Weil Jr. and Sally Banes
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Thanks and giving
Stages are dark, but Chicago theater and dance companies still keep a light on.
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A trilogy for times of terror
Three streaming productions give us plenty to ponder in the pandemic.
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All your home’s a stage
The best online options for enjoying theater from local, national, and international companies
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Rhino Fest provides a theatrical horn of plenty
In its 31st year, Chicago’s longest-running alternative theater festival celebrates old friends and new voices.
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It Is Magic takes a sympathetic look at the world of storefront theater
How and why do you go on making art in the face of indifference?
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Spirits to Enforce is an auspicious beginning for the Passage Theatre
The cast finds disarming poignancy in well-orchestrated absurdity.
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Baudelaire in a Box: Unquenched, The Burials, and nine more new theater reviews
Highlights this week include episode nine of Theater Oobleck’s stage translation of Les Fleurs du Mal and a Steppenwolf for Young Adults drama by Caitlin Parrish.
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Mickle Maher’s Song About Himself is (almost) his best play yet
The Theater Oobleck cofounder mesmerizes with a dystopian world where the Web is all.
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Theater Oobleck hits the Hideout for ‘Toosdays’ in ‘Joon’
The fringe-theater faves take over the monthlong Tuesday Night Residency series.
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Chicago Commercial Collective hits the road
Chicago Commercial Collective is booking Midwest college tours for five off-Loop theater productions.
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Writers bring “Vision and Voice” to the 17th annual Story Week
“Vision and Voice” is the theme of the 17th annual Story Week Festival of Writers.
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Reader’s Agenda Thu 3/7: Peace on Earth Film Festival, “Race, Representation, Resistance,” and There Is a Happiness That Morning Is
What’s on the Reader’s Agenda for Thursday, March 7, 2013.