- Blogs, Bleader, May 2, 2013
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Social media Shakespeare: An idea whose time has finally come
Isinglass Theater performs Much Ado About Nothing through social media.
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Mar 26, 2013
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The triumph of Red Hamlet
Red Theater's radical Shakespeare revision is an exercise in instability.
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Mar 21, 2013
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Shakespeare goes to Gotham City
Robert Falls achieves a half measure of success in dark, unruly Measure for Measure.
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Mar 20, 2013
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The La Ronde Project fucks its way up the social ladder
Street Tempo Theatre stages an orgy of a repertory festival.
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 11, 2013
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The deep hidden meaning behind Gorilla Tango Theatre's Bikini Shakespeare
The director of Bikini Shakespeare explains the deep hidden meaning behind her artistic vision—sort of.
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 18, 2012
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The romance of books: the Newberry Library at 125
A special exhibit displays some of the exquisite items in the Newberry's vast collection, on the occasion of the library's 125th anniversary
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Sidebar, Oct 3, 2012
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Equivocation gives the Bard a good shagging
Playing English-major games with a writer called Shagspeare
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Sep 19, 2012
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A homo Hamlet?
Writers' Theatre takes a minority position on the melancholy Dane
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 23, 2012
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The Twitter debate
To tweet or not to tweet?
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 23, 2012
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The latest Reader performing arts reviews
Fresh reviews from the Reader's performing arts critics
- Movies, Movie Review, Feb 2, 2012
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Soldier of misfortune
Ralph Fiennes revives Shakespeare's military tragedy Coriolanus
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Sidebar, Feb 2, 2012
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Prospero puts on a play
The Tempest becomes Beckettian meditation (with puppets) in The Feast
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Dec 29, 2011
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Our favorite theater of 2011
Ten favorite shows from 2011, plus five honorable mentions
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 8, 2011
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How come they don't talk like that in my John R. Tunis* books?
Listen to Rangers manager Ron Washington rally his troops.
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 28, 2011
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Shakespeare exposed
Shakespeare exposed for the fraud he was in Roland Emmerich's Anonymous
- News & Features, Feature, Oct 6, 2011
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Our guide to the 2011 Chicago International Film Festival
Escape the ubiquity of American movies with 150 features from nearly every corner of the world
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 17, 2010
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Julie Taymor's "Tempest"
Helen Mirren conjures Julie Taymor's "Tempest" Monday at the Chicago International Film Festival.
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 19, 2010
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Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth
I'll look after the bills, Pop
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 15, 2010
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1/16 — Free Shakespeare by New Leaf Theatre
New Leaf Theatre presents a free reading of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale on Sat 1/16.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 17, 2009
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7/18-7/26 — Romeo and Juliet in the park
