The choose-your-own-adventure-style parody features all the best tropes and treats of made-for-TV holiday specials.
Tag: satire
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Storefront Theater Musical is a bad-faith disaster
It commits the great satirical sin of punching down.
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Vice, Adam McKay’s gonzo anti-biopic of Dick Cheney, earns our attention
The story itself is less revealing than the telling.
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Pride Plays and Films’s It’s Only a Play lacks Broadway star power, but it’s still good fun
Terrence McNally’s play is essentially a workplace hangout comedy.
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I Am Not a Witch signals the auspicious arrival of a fierce new talent, director Rungano Nyoni
A Zambian girl, falsely accused and imprisoned, refuses to be objectified or underestimated.
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After 139 years, Pirates of Penzance is still a satisfying combination of sweet and salty
Saltbox Theatre Collective’s production hits Sullivan’s notes and lands Gilbert’s punchlines.
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Second City E.T.C.’s Gaslight District examines the perils of living in the age of alternative facts
But you can’t escape the zone of truth.
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Sean Penn and Stuart Dybek talk about Penn’s new novel, which neither of them quite understands
The author of Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff describes it as “humor in hopelessness.”
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American Theater’s Welcome to Jesus makes you want to Get Out
American Theater Company’s latest is a very nearly insufferable night in the theater.
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The still-relevant satire Little Murders is the best movie in town this week
Chicago Film Society presents a rare 35-millimeter revival of Alan Arkin’s 1971 film adaptation of Jules Feiffer’s stage play.
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Wow! Clickhole live onstage!
The satirical website Clickhole presents a variety show from the minds of its staff.
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Before New Yorker covers, there was Puck
A new show at the Driehaus Museum presents some of the finest satirical illustrations of late 19th-century America.
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You’ll never believe the 11 reasons Clickhole is the Internet’s most brilliant site
In its first year of existence, the Chicago-based Onion spin-off Clickhole has become the smartest, funniest, and most absurd thing on the Internet—precisely by lampooning the Internet’s absurdity. Share if you agree!
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Street artists peek out from the shadows
Get to know some of Chicago’s mysterious, prolific street artists.
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River North’s last non-Italian restaurant to reconcept as Italian restaurant
A dispatch from the near future of our restaurant scene, with a side of pasta.