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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, May 2, 2013
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark pulls the mask off old Hollywood

The title character of Lynn Nottage's play is an amalgam of the African-American actresses whose roles were restricted in early cinema—and who are still expected to play to type.
- by Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Vera Stark, Goodman Theatre, black women filmmakers, Tamberla Perry, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, Baby Face, Lynn Nottage, Theresa Harris, Barbara Stanwyck, cinema, Gloria Mitchell, vaudeville, Broadway, theater, NAACP, Gone With the Wind, Baby Face, IMDB, film, Hattie McDaniel, Louise Beavers, actresses, black actresses, Chuck Smith, stereotyping, roles, Hollywood, Clare Boothe Luce, The Women

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, May 5, 2011
Dot and Ziggy author Linda Hartzell on theater’s newest demographic: babies
- by Dan Weissmann
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Linda Hartzell, Chicago Children's Theatre, Dot and Ziggy, Seattle Children's Theatre, The Green Sheep, Where is the Green Sheep?, Judy Blume, Tales of a Fourth-Grade Nothing, Victory Gardens Theater

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, Jun 14, 1974
A Day in the Life of the Mind: Part Three
- by Meredith Anthony

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, Sep 15, 2011
A hit and a miss

Sarah Gubbins's The Kid Thing and Sean Graney's Sophocles: Seven Sicknesses
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Sarah Gubbins, The Kid Thing, Chicago Dramatists, Sean Graney, Sophocles: Seven Sicknesses, Hypcrites, Chopin Theatre

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, Sep 15, 2011
Accidental comic

Adam Burke didn't mean to become a comedian, but it's working out pretty well
- by Brian Costello
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Adam Burke, stand-up, comedy, Spike Mulligan, Bill Hicks, Kiss Kiss Cabaret, Greenhouse Theater, Chicago Social, Hug City, Speak Easy, Cole's Bar, Cameron Esposito

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, Sep 15, 2011
Altered consciousness

The fearsome dance of Adam Rose
- by Laura Molzahn
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Fall Arts Preview 2011, Adam Rose, dance, Holocene Overkill, Antibody Corporation, parasypchology, Chicago Dancemaker Forum

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News & Features, Deanna Isaacs on Culture, Jan 28, 2013
Being Jack Unterweger

John Malkovich channels Austria's infamous Hooker Killer.
- by Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Deanna Isaacs on Culture, Jack Unterweger, Birgit Hutter, Michael Sturminger, John Malkovich, Elfriede Jelinek, Vienna Strangler, The Infernal Commedy, August Schenner, Symphony Center, Vienna, serial killers

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, Dec 22, 2011
Brian Posen, the comedian trainer

'The more I teach, the less I know. The more I dig in, the more I realize I don't know anything about this.'
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, People Issue 2011, Brian Posen, Second City, Second City Training Center, Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival, Glencoe, North Shore, improv, Stage 773

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, Oct 17, 2012
Burning down the house

Only the polemics get really hot in The Arsonists
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Max Frisch, Alistair Beaton, Gottlieb Biedermann, arson, Nazis, Neville Chamberlain, Victor Quezada-Perez

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, Sep 21, 2006
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Chicago 101: Comedy

Where to go for a laugh
- by Ryan Hubbard
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, Sep 21, 2006
Chicago 101: Dance

Not Just the Joffrey
- by Laura Molzahn

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, Sep 21, 2006
Chicago 101: Television

Who's making it here and what they're making
- by Elizabeth M. Tamny

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, Sep 21, 2006
Chicago 101: Theater and Performing Arts

The best offerings from local companies this fall.
- by Albert Williams

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, Jan 14, 2010
Evening of the Living Dead

Mary Beth Fisher on performing Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Mary Beth Fisher, The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion, Court Theatre, Charles Newell, John Gregory Dunne, Quintana Roo Dunne Michael

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, Nov 18, 2010
Everybody's a Producer

Members can buy into the show-selection process in Chicago Muse's new model.
- by Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Sean Cercone, Theatre Building Chicago, Chicago Muse, The Story of My Life, Victory Gardens Theater, Brian Hill, Neil Bartram, TBC, Carousel Dinner Theatre, theater membership, Chicago Muse festival, theater subscriptions, Ruth Higgins

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News & Features, The Arts, Oct 8, 2009
Everyone Is Implicated

My Kind of Town, John Conroy's unforgiving new play about the Chicago police torture scandal, gets a reading at the Chicago Writers' Bloc New Play Festival.
- by Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: The Arts, Theatre Building Chicago, Stage 773

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, Oct 13, 2011
Excerpts from a reviled theater critic's most scathing reviews

Tom Boeker: 'This is a fungus that's festered in the back of the refrigerator for 20 years'
- by Tom Boeker
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Tom Boeker, Macondo, Dreiske Performance Company at the Ivanhoe Theater, Theatre critic, Four Portraits of Mothers, Fusion Theatre Group at Raven Theatre, Medea, Black Ensemble, Alagazam . . . After the Dog Wars, New Criminals at Blind Parrot Theater, Candyland, Live Bait Theater, Beirut, New Lincoln Theater, Hughie, Before Breakfast, Gare St. Lazare Players, Royal-George Theatre

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The title character of Lynn Nottage's play is an amalgam of the African-American actresses whose roles were restricted in early cinema—and who are still expected to play to type.

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Sarah Gubbins's The Kid Thing and Sean Graney's Sophocles: Seven Sicknesses

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Adam Burke didn't mean to become a comedian, but it's working out pretty well

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The fearsome dance of Adam Rose

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John Malkovich channels Austria's infamous Hooker Killer.

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'The more I teach, the less I know. The more I dig in, the more I realize I don't know anything about this.'

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Only the polemics get really hot in The Arsonists

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Where to go for a laugh

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Not Just the Joffrey

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Who's making it here and what they're making

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The best offerings from local companies this fall.

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The CSO issues a call as Muti takes a fall

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Six comics headline the Little Village Laugh Festival.

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The best productions, beloved artists, and a show more than one Reader writer hated

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Mary Beth Fisher on performing Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking

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Members can buy into the show-selection process in Chicago Muse's new model.

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My Kind of Town, John Conroy's unforgiving new play about the Chicago police torture scandal, gets a reading at the Chicago Writers' Bloc New Play Festival.

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Tom Boeker: 'This is a fungus that's festered in the back of the refrigerator for 20 years'