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by Kevin Warwick
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, Sep 28, 2012
Good People
and bad dads: new performing arts reviews
From "pointless" to "devastatingly beautiful"
by Meg Pier
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Stage 773
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Woyzeck on the Highveld
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Performing Arts Review
, Sep 26, 2012
Chops at last!
Pulitzer winner David Lindsay-Abaire finally shows promise with
Good People
by Justin Hayford
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Bleader
, Aug 28, 2012
The pay wall debate
A paper I read erects a pay wall, and I can't complain
by Michael Miner
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, Aug 14, 2012
The
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What's on the Agenda for Tuesday, August 14, 2012
by Drew Hunt
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,
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,
Anton Chekhov
,
Three Sisters
,
Russia
,
Nikki B.
,
Words Scar
,
Room 43
,
Hyde Park
,
Melborune
,
Australia
,
Husky
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Schubas
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Movie Feature
, Aug 1, 2012
Chamber brothers
With
Killer Joe
, Tracy Letts and William Friedkin deliver another tale of bad people in close quarters
by Drew Hunt
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Tracy Letts
,
August:Osage County
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Matthew McConaguhey
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murder
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Harold Pinter
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Performing Arts
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Performing Arts Review
, Jul 11, 2012
Getting to the meat of
Three Sisters
Steppenwolf cracks Chekhov's hardest nut
by Justin Hayford
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,
Steppenwolf
,
Anton Chekhov
,
plotlessness
,
Prozorov sisters
,
Constantin Stanislavsky
,
Anna Shapiro
,
Jess Goldstein
,
Tracy Letts
,
Todd Rosenthal
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Kierkegaard
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irony
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Best of Chicago
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Arts & Culture
, Jun 20, 2012
Readers' Poll
Best New Play
Hit the Wall
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Best of Chicago
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Arts & Culture
, Jun 20, 2012
Readers' Poll
Best Established Theater Company
Steppenwolf Theatre
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Goodman
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Arts & Culture
, Jun 20, 2012
Readers' Poll
Best Off-Loop Theater Company
Dream Theater Company
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, Dec 8, 2011
Best of 2011, number 8:
The Wise Kids
J.R. Jones on
The Wise Kids
, his number 8 movie of 2011.
by J.R. Jones
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,
Ben Sachs
,
Stephen Cone
,
The Wise Kids
,
Tyler Ross
,
Victory Gardens
,
Chicago Dramatists
,
Molly Kunz
,
Something Better Somewhere Else
,
Allison Torem
,
Steppenwolf
,
Lookingglass
,
Matt DeCaro
,
Sadieh Rifai
,
Sadie Rogers
,
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Performing Arts Review
, Nov 10, 2011
Three plays at Steppenwolf's First Look Repertory
The yearnings of rehab refugees, unmoored Manhattanites, and a serial killer
by Kerry Reid
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,
Steppenwolf
,
First Look Repetory of New Work
,
Christina Anderson
,
Zayd Dohrn
,
Carly Mensch
,
Robert O'Hara
,
Kimberly Senior
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Matt Miller
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Deanna Isaacs on Culture
, Aug 25, 2011
Playwright Sarah Gubbins didn't think she was gay--or a writer
But with a couple world premieres this year, she's come into her own
by Deanna Isaacs
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Northwestern
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Chicago Dramatists
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How Carson McCullers Saved my Life
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Best of Chicago
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Arts & Culture
, Jun 23, 2011
Best new play
Musical of the Living Dead
voted best new play
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,
Best new play
,
Musical of the Living Dead
,
Readers' poll
,
Cowardly Scarecrow Theatre Company
,
Sex With Strangers
,
Steppenwolf
,
There is a Happiness That Morning Is
,
Theatre Oobleck
,
Steppenwolf Theatre
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Best of Chicago
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Arts & Culture
, Jun 23, 2011
Best theater company
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,
Best theater company
,
Readers' poll
,
Steppenwolf
,
Lookingglass
,
Goodman
,
Goodman Theatre
,
Lookingglass Theatre Company
,
Steppenwolf Theatre
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Arts & Culture
, Jun 23, 2011
Best off-Loop theater company
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,
Best off-Loop theater company
,
Readers' poll
,
Nothing Special Productions
,
Steppenwolf
,
The Neo-Futurists
,
Steppenwolf Theatre
,
Neo-Futurarium
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Performing Arts
,
Performing Arts Sidebar
, May 12, 2011
International Symposium on Chicago Theatre attempts to shake the trees
by Asher Klein
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,
International Symposium on Chicago Theatre
,
Richard Christiansen
,
Chicago Tribune
,
Martha Levy
,
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,
Chicago Reader
,
Albert Williams
,
David Sauer
,
David Pasquesi
,
David Mamet
,
Alaric "Rokko" Jans
,
Kerry Reid
,
Tony Adler
,
Columbia College
,
Jeff Abell
,
Stephanie Shaw
,
Second City
,
Chicago Improv Festival
,
Northwestern University
,
Alvina Krause
,
Harold Washington Library Center
,
Film Row Cinema, Columbia College
,
Columbia College Theatre Music Center
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Bleader
, Mar 20, 2011
Ads From the Past: November 8, 1974
by Vera Videnovich
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,
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Chicago Reader @ Forty
,
1970s
,
T-Rex
,
KISS
,
Rory Gallagher
,
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,
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,
Quatermass
,
Wet Willie
,
Hydra
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U.F.O.
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, Jun 22, 2010
Video
Tracy Letts on The Interview Show
by Mark Bazer
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August: Osage County
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