The four years that young adults spend in high school are widely recognized as some of the most formative (and cringeworthy) years of their lives. It’s a space where they come face to face with their insecurities on a daily basis. For many, this space is a common site for first-time struggles related to academics, […]
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Siah Berlatsky shakes up Shakespeare
Siah Berlatsky just graduated this month from ChiArts, but though she’s taking a gap year before college, the 18-year-old playwright-director-actor isn’t letting the grass grow under her feet. In August, she’ll be part of Artistic Home’s outdoor developmental series, “Summer on the Patio,” with her Elizabethan-style gender-bending rom-com, Malapert Love, which she also directs. (“Malapert,” […]
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Ghost Gun confronts class and race
The Goodman joins the national #Enough: Plays to End Gun Violence initiative; plus a new documentary on the August Wilson Monologue Competition and an award for a dance documentarian
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Ms. Blakk for President celebrates a great queer pioneer
When Joan Jett Blakk told us to lick Bush in ’92
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Choir Boy, Foxfinder, and 12 more stage shows to see now
A play by Moonlight author Tarell Alvin McCraney and a paranoiac drama by British playwright Dawn Hall are among this week’s best bets.
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A minor character plays a major role in the Barry Jenkins drama Moonlight
A minor character plays a major role in the Barry Jenkins drama Moonlight.
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Ten best bets for fall movies
Oliver Stone tells the Snowden story, Nate Parker tells the Nat Turner story, and Ewan McGregor tries to tell Philip Roth’s story, plus other highlights.
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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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Laugh along with Job in The Way West
In The Way West, Steppenwolf satirizes (and sings about) manifest destiny and the American dream.
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Head of Passes: Bless this mess
Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Head of Passes was one of the best and worst plays of 2013.
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New Stages at diez anos
In its tenth year, the Goodman Theatre New Stages Festival focuses on Latino writers.
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At Steppenwolf, a flawed work signals a major talent
Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Head of Passes puts a payment down on future masterpieces.
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Like a Foreign Country
Tarell Alvin McCraney’s jolting close-up of life on the gulf coast