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Home » Pulitzer Prize

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Bill Mauldin's cartoon of a grieving Lincoln, published after the assassination of John F. Kennedy
Posted inColumns & Opinion

The art of war and more from Bill Mauldin

by Deanna Isaacs May 26, 2021August 18, 2021

The Pritzker Museum highlights Bill Mauldin’s 50-year fight with injustice.

Posted inArts & Culture

Sweat shows how Trump’s America came to be

by Max Maller March 27, 2019August 18, 2021

Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer winner should be required viewing.

Posted inBlogs

What we learned this weekend at the Chicago Humanities Festival

by Aimee Levitt, Deanna Isaacs and Emmanuel Camarillo October 29, 2018August 18, 2021

Jerry Saltz, Alex Ross, women’s anger, and why historians sort of miss Richard Nixon

Posted inArts & Culture

With Downstate, Bruce Norris finally earns his Pulitzer

by Tony Adler October 3, 2018August 18, 2021

And director Pam MacKinnon and her Steppenwolf cast give us a masterwork.

Posted inArts & Culture

Haki Madhubuti has lived his life as an act of defiance

by Patrick T. Reardon August 29, 2018August 18, 2021

And the 76-year-old Chicago educator, essayist, activist, and founder of Third World Press is as radical as ever.

Posted inArts & Culture

Oak Park Festival Theatre uncovers hidden depths in You Can’t Take It With You

by Jack Helbig June 21, 2018August 18, 2021

Director Jason Gerace focuses on character development, not punchlines.

Posted inBlogs

Pulitzer winner Mark Konkol to lead Chicago Reader

by Chicago Reader January 31, 2018August 18, 2021

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mark Konkol is named executive editor of the Chicago Reader.

Posted inBlogs

Vic Mensa opens for Jay Z, and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week

by Steve Heisler December 4, 2017August 18, 2021

Last Week Tonight With John Oliver writer Josh Gondelman at Zanies, and more goings-on the week of December 4-7

Posted inArts & Culture

The message of Court Theatre’s Harvey? Don’t worry—be happy

by Tony Adler May 24, 2017August 18, 2021

Mary Chase’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1945 comedy was and remains a sweet break from the general awfulness.

Posted inArts & Culture

Seeing tomorrow’s subscription season today at Louisville’s Humana Festival

by Tony Adler May 11, 2017August 18, 2021

The seedbed for new plays has a winner in Chelsea Marcantel’s Airness.

Posted inArts & Culture

Pulitzer Prize-winning Between Riverside and Crazy is provocative, potent—and never quite convincing

by Justin Hayford July 14, 2016August 18, 2021

Stephen Adly Guirgis’s topical drama is hugely unsatisfying despite Steppenwolf’s finely executed production.

Posted inBlogs

Reader’s Agenda Tue 10/7: Banks, ‘Words or Music?,’ and Girl Group Chicago

by Drew Hunt October 7, 2014August 18, 2021

What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Tuesday, October 7

Kareem Bandealy and Michael Patrick Thornton in the Gift Theatre's Othello
Posted inArts & Culture

A gutsy new take on Shakespeare’s great Other

by Tony Adler July 23, 2014August 18, 2021

The Gift Theatre’s gutsy new take on Shakespeare’s Othello gives us a more Moorish Moor.

"If your boyfriend regularly stopped at a bar to have a cocktail, and people flirted with him, and he flirted back—and that's all he did—would that constitute an 'appletini infidelity'?"
Posted inColumns & Opinion

When is cyber flirtation cyber infidelity?

by Dan Savage July 17, 2014August 18, 2021

Dan’s advice on cyber cheating, what to do when you’ve shtupped the new hire, and middle age as a gay man.

Kate Arrington and Keith Kupferer
Posted inArts & Culture

Approach Steppenwolf’s The Qualms without reservations

by Tony Adler July 16, 2014August 18, 2021

The Qualms, Bruce Norris’s satire about swingers, inspires no reservations in one Chicago critic.

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