Topdog/Underdog brings the American nightmare to vivid life at Steppenwolf
If you need a reminder of how lucky we are to live in one of the great theater cities, catch the...
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Operation Mincemeat serves up tasty musical comedy at CIBC
The U.K.’s domestic counterintelligence agency, MI5, is having quite the pop-culture moment,...
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Kowalski delivers a breezy take on Marlon Brando’s Streetcar audition for Tennessee Williams at Lookingglass
Richard Linklater is one of my favorite directors, especially when he works with Ethan Hawke. So I...
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Riot Fest 2026 Day Three: William Shatner will outlive us all
Douglass Park was so covered in boot-sucking mud Sunday that it created the opposite effect of...
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Riot Fest 2026 Day Three: Dancing in the rain
Let me start by saying I have never seen so much mud in my entire life and I probably never will...
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In The Attic at the Goodman, the circus proves an illuminating metaphor for life
An impressionistic memoir of a life on the trapeze and far beyond, The Attic: Things I’ve...
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Riot Fest 2026 Day Two: A high-flying, fast-moving blur of music
I rode my second ride today (the swings). As someone who is slightly afraid of heights I was...
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Riot Fest 2026 Day Two: This is the story of weather rotten
Impending thunderstorms required Riot Fest to end two and a half hours early and rejigger its...
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Riot Fest 2026 Day One: Sex Pistols fire blanks, but Iggy Pop still has skin in the game
The demands of work and school meant that I and my daughter, Emma, frontwoman of Chicago band The...
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Riot Fest 2026 Day One: Riding Zero Gravity and the Bratmobile
Chicago Culture Authority’s new correspondent, Emma Sennett, rates her Top Three bands on...
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Kokandy’s Jekyll & Hyde goes big with a killer production at Broadway Playhouse
Bursting forth from the Chopin Theatre to stake its bloody claim to Broadway in Chicago’s...
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Reality Detox: The Improv Experience still finding its footing at The Second City e.t.c.
Improv is a legit art form. It was, in fact, one of the main reasons I moved to Chicago way back...
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