The fifth annual Naked July offers performance in the buff.
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This week’s Culture Vultures recommend:
Chicagoans recommend books by Judith Brotman and Marcia Tucker, plus National Pastime Theater’s Naked July
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The Reader’s 2011 Pride Guide
The Chicago Pride Parade, which first marched out of Washington Square Park in 1970, now attracts hundreds of thousands of people—revelers and spectators, queer folks, allies, and more than a few politicians—along its Lakeview route. The parade kicks off Sunday at noon, but the weekend, the culmination of Pride Month, also offers pre- and postparade […]
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Onstage nudity provokes heated response
Justin Hayford’s review of the Naked July fest at National Pastime Theater—rating asses and daring to bring up feminism—has sparked a vigorous discussion.
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“Naked July” Fest Needs More Than Nudes
A review of the Naked July: Art Stripped Down festival at National Pastime Theater. The shows cited are: Living Canvas’s Nocturne, the Ripette Burlesque’s Speakeasy to Me, The Girlie-Q Variety Hour, The Great American Nudie Spectacular, and David Kaplan’s staging of The Day on Which a Man Dies.