They sound their barbaric yawp through the living room.
Tag: Walt Whitman
Posted inArts & Culture
Black Ensemble’s Doo Wop Shoo Bop, Quest Theatre’s All the World’s a Stage, and eight more stage shows to see now
Revivals are back—even Sister Act.
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The most unassuming diva on the planet shines in The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez
Melissa Lorraine of Theatre Y gets to be herself in this late play by Peter Handke.
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Court Theatre’s The Secret Garden suggests you get over yourself
A musical with good advice
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Mickle Maher’s Song About Himself is (almost) his best play yet
The Theater Oobleck cofounder mesmerizes with a dystopian world where the Web is all.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Was Walt Whitman racist?
Northwestern voice student Timothy McNair took a stand in protest of Walt Whitman—and failed a class.
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Naked talent at National Pastime Theater
The fifth annual Naked July offers performance in the buff.
Posted inBlogs
Thoughts on the city that said good-bye to Roger Ebert
At Ebert’s memorial, celebrating Chicago along with the film critic’s life
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Johnnie To’s Election, which has little in common with the U.S. presidential election
Revisiting the Hong Kong master’s gangland saga in light of the U.S. presidential election
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Having the best-worst, most terrible time with Gerard Manley Hopkins
The marvelous wretchedness of Hopkins’s “Terrible Sonnets”
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No place of grace
Jia Zhang-ke’s Still Life looks into the future–and none of us is there!
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Floating worlds
Themes of immigration and exile in Tsai Ming-liang’s I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone and Emanuele Crialese’s Golden Door.