To the editors: Your article “Scourge of the Shedd” [November 5] describing Steve Hindi’s assault on the Shedd Aquarium was very illuminating of the mind-set of a fanatic. He has become so entrenched in attacking the Shedd that he feels every act aimed at that end is justified. Such rudeness and acts of unkindness turned […]
Tag: Vol. 23 No. 7
Issue of Nov. 25 – Dec. 1, 1993
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On Exhibit: a Jewish artist confronts the swastika
“I used to make art I could sell,” says Chicago artist Edith Altman. “Now, I make political art.” Two years ago one of her installations –three rooms of large pieces connected by Holocaust themes–was scheduled to be exhibited at the State of Illinois Art Gallery. But the show was canceled because state officials feared that […]
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Dawn Toddy/Dysfunctional Family Night
DAWN TODDY Ed at the Famous Door Theatre Company DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY NIGHT North Avenue Productions at the Avenue Theatre Dying is easy. Comedy is hard. And improvisational comedy is sometimes just plain impossible. For a while the folks at Ed (along with their improv friends and relations at Jazz Freddy, ImprovOlympic, and the Annoyance Theatre) […]
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Correcting Shakespeare
To the editors: In his October 22 “Critic’s Choice” review of the APT production of The Taming of the Shrew, Jack Helbig notes the “patriarchal bias that mars this comedy for modern audiences” as well as the blatant anti-Semitism of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, neither of which APT was able to find “a way […]
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Sculpture in Vitro: Growing Up Female in the Age of Liposuction
Despite the subtitle, Molly McNett and Shirley Anderson’s wise and witty show, first produced last summer at the Prop Theatre, speaks volumes to anyone, female or male, interested in breaking the media-created consensus trance about body image. Combining elements of satire and autobiography, this wickedly funny five-person revue examines the myriad ways adolescent girls are […]