Stars Sandra Marquez and Ora Jones enliven material well below their pay grade.
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Kellye Howard records a live album, and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week
Free admission to the Adler Planetarium, “Saturday Night Live: the Experience,” and more goings-on November 13-16
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For a former believer, The Christians at Steppenwolf is a stunning reminder of a personal crisis of faith
A former Christian reflects on the spiritual struggle portrayed in Lucas Hnath’s latest play.
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For a former heretic, Steppenwolf’s The Christians is a stunning reminder of a crisis of faith
A former Christian missionary reflects on the kind of crises of faith portrayed in The Christians.
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Tax on tickets to Lyric Opera and the CSO? Not for now.
A proposal to tax ticket sales for Lyric Opera and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra has been tabled, for now.
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Steppenwolf’s Airline Highway goes for a big lesson in the Big Easy
But Lisa D’Amour’s Broadway-bound drama unwittingly grounds itself.
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Reader’s Agenda Tue 4/22: Scott Turow, Schoolboy Q, and The Way West
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Tuesday, April 22
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Chicago: America’s theater capital?
Surely no words ever written by any theater critic stirred more local buzz than Michael Billington’s 2004 observation in London’s Guardian that “Chicago . . . [is] the current theatre capital of America.” It came like manna from heaven to the denizens of this no longer even second city, and they seized upon it. At last the flyover on […]
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Cold World, Warm Heart at Steppenwolf Theatre
Lanford Wilson’s Hot L Baltimore loves its losers.