The Pritzker Museum highlights Bill Mauldin’s 50-year fight with injustice.
Tag: Pulitzer Prize
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Sweat shows how Trump’s America came to be
Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer winner should be required viewing.
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What we learned this weekend at the Chicago Humanities Festival
Jerry Saltz, Alex Ross, women’s anger, and why historians sort of miss Richard Nixon
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With Downstate, Bruce Norris finally earns his Pulitzer
And director Pam MacKinnon and her Steppenwolf cast give us a masterwork.
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Haki Madhubuti has lived his life as an act of defiance
And the 76-year-old Chicago educator, essayist, activist, and founder of Third World Press is as radical as ever.
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Oak Park Festival Theatre uncovers hidden depths in You Can’t Take It With You
Director Jason Gerace focuses on character development, not punchlines.
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Pulitzer winner Mark Konkol to lead Chicago Reader
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mark Konkol is named executive editor of the Chicago Reader.
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Vic Mensa opens for Jay Z, and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver writer Josh Gondelman at Zanies, and more goings-on the week of December 4-7
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The message of Court Theatre’s Harvey? Don’t worry—be happy
Mary Chase’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1945 comedy was and remains a sweet break from the general awfulness.
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Seeing tomorrow’s subscription season today at Louisville’s Humana Festival
The seedbed for new plays has a winner in Chelsea Marcantel’s Airness.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning Between Riverside and Crazy is provocative, potent—and never quite convincing
Stephen Adly Guirgis’s topical drama is hugely unsatisfying despite Steppenwolf’s finely executed production.
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Reader’s Agenda Tue 10/7: Banks, ‘Words or Music?,’ and Girl Group Chicago
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Tuesday, October 7
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A gutsy new take on Shakespeare’s great Other
The Gift Theatre’s gutsy new take on Shakespeare’s Othello gives us a more Moorish Moor.
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When is cyber flirtation cyber infidelity?
Dan’s advice on cyber cheating, what to do when you’ve shtupped the new hire, and middle age as a gay man.
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Approach Steppenwolf’s The Qualms without reservations
The Qualms, Bruce Norris’s satire about swingers, inspires no reservations in one Chicago critic.