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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 24, 2012
Margaret: Immature

Looking at Kenneth Lonergan's film, Margaret
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Onstage, Film, Performing Arts, Arts, Margaret Week, Gene Siskel Film Center, Anna Paquin, Kenneth Lonergan, Matt Damon

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 3, 2012
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Mamet alert: Race runs on

Goodman Theatre adds a couple more chances to see Race
- by Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Onstage, Performing Arts, Arts, Goodman Theatre, David Mamet, Race, Chuck Smith, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 3, 2012
Why didn't Bruce Norris play the game?

Producer Scott Rudin drops the Broadway version of Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Onstage, Performing Arts, Arts, Bruce Norris, Scott Rudin, Clybourne Park, Steppenwolf Theatre, Anna D. Shapiro, Amy Morton, Martha Lavey, Michael Riedel, The Pain and the Itch

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 2, 2012
Hubris Productions comes out of the closet on snarkiness

Hubris Production changes its mission statement
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Onstage, Performing Arts, Arts, Hubris Productions, Torch Song Trilogy, Steel Magnolias, Agnes of God, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Bent

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 2, 2012
The latest Reader performing arts reviews

A roundup of fresh reviews by Reader critics
- by Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Onstage, Performing Arts, Comedy, Dance, Arts, Enron, The Hunchback Variations, Rhinofest, 6 Pleasant Avenue, In/Corporate, The Girl in the Yellow Dress, Hedda Gabler, Homeland, The Houdini Box, Motion, Quake, Residue, Time Stands Still, The Feast: In Intimate Tempest, Long Gone Lonesome, National Theatre of Scotland, Never Been to Paris, Stranded! The Lost Sketches of Brain Freeze, The Seldoms, Chicago Children's Theatre, Harry Houdini, Sean Flannery, football, Super Bowl, Shakespeare Theater Company

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 24, 2012
The latest Reader performing arts reviews

A roundup of new performing arts reviews
- by Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Onstage, Performing Arts, Comedy, Dance, Arts, The American Drink Book, Strangers, Daphne du Maurier, Flannery O'Connor, Mike McKune, Kelly Anchors, I Love You Permanently, Beau O'Reilly, Our Kate Takes a Trip, Blizzard '67, Devils Don't Forget, Tartuffe, Come Fly Away, In the Heights, Hubbard Street Dance, The Ghost is Here, I Am Saying This Right Now, The Legend of Buster Neal, Little Triggers, Megacosm, To Tree, Your Funniest Friends

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 18, 2012
Remy Bumppo artistic director Timothy Douglas resigns

Remy Bumppo artistic director Timothy Douglas resigns
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Onstage, Performing Arts, Arts, Timothy Douglas, Remy Bumppo Theatre, Nick Sandys

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 27, 2011
Last chance to see a "revolutionary Christmas Carol"

Christmas Carol update Occupy My Heart at Studio BE through Thursday.
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Onstage, Politics, Free Shit, Performing Arts, Swag, Arts, Clout City, Occupy My Heart, Occupy Players, Occupy Chicago, A Christmas Carol, Goodman Theatre

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 23, 2011
The latest Reader performing arts reviews

A roundup of new performing arts reviews
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Onstage, Performing Arts, Arts, A Christmas Story: The Musical, Displays of Affection, Terry Horan, The Vic and Paul Show, La Cage aux Folles, That's Weird, Grandma

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 8, 2011
The latest Reader performing arts reviews

New Reader performing arts reviews
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Onstage, Performing Arts, Comedy, Dance, Arts, Spring Awakening, Griffin Theatre, Changes of Heart, Crossed, Teatro Luna, El Stories: Holiday Train, Far Away, Hannukatz: The Musical, It's a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play, Let It Ho!, Rudolph the Red-Hosed Reindeer, St. Nicholas, Striking 12, Talk About God: Five Cents, Joy, iO, Deeply Rooted Dance Theater, The Humans, Charles Dickens Begrudgingly Performs 'A Christmas Carol' Again, The Word Progress on My Mother's Lips Doesn't Ring True

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 2, 2011
The walls talk in Sleep No More

The main character of Sleep No More is the building in which it takes place.
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Architecture Week, Onstage, Performing Arts, Arts, Variations on a Theme, Sleep No More, McKittrick Hotel, Felix Barrett, Livi Vaughn, Beatrice Minn

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 1, 2011
The latest Reader performing arts reviews

A rundown of newly reviewed shows in the performing arts.
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Onstage, Performing Arts, Arts, A Christmas Carol, A Christmas Carol: The Silent Bah-humbug, The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey, The Christmas Schooner, Crime and Pun-ishment, Itâ€™s a Wonderful Life: Live at the Biograph, A Klingon Christmas Carol, Memphis, Orange Orbs, Pirates of Penzance, Pump Boys and Dinettes, Theo Ubique, Redmoon Winter Pageant, The Santaland Diaries, Tinsel: The Musical, The Santa Stories: The Naughty One, The Santa Stories: The Nice One, Muntu Dance Theatre of Chicago

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 24, 2011
Fiddler on the Roof at the Auditorium

Review of Fiddler on the Roof, with John Preece as Tevye, at the Auditorium Theatre.
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Onstage, Performing Arts, Arts, Fiddler on the Roof, John Preece, Zero Mostel

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 23, 2011
The latest Reader performing arts reviews

The rundown on Reader performing arts reviews.
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Onstage, Performing Arts, Comedy, Dance, Arts, Ann: An Affectionate Portrait of Ann Richards, Holland Taylor, An Iliad, Court Theatre, The Jackie Wilson Story, Black Ensemble, The Baker's Wife, Circle Theatre, A Bright New Boise, Livewire, Burning Bluebeard, Neo-Futurists, Date Me!, The Sound of Silence, Salomme Speelt, Five Flights, Oops! I Christmassed Again, ComedySportz, Immediate Theatre, Peer Gynt, Polarity Ensemble Theatre, Season's Greetings, Northlight Theatre, Sweet Confinement, Sinnerman Ensemble, We Are Not These Hands, Right Brain Project, The Caretaker, Writers' Theatre, Urlakis & Cusick, Chicago Human Rhythm Project, Global Rhythms

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 18, 2011
"Playwrights as Writers" panel this weekend at the Chicago Book Expo

"Playwrights as Writers" panel Saturday, 11/19, 2 PM, at the Chicago Book Expo.
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Onstage, Lit & Lectures, Performing Arts, Arts, Books, Chicago Book Expo, Joe Meno, Greg Allen, Tanya Palmer, Marisa Wegrzyn, Tony Adler

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 18, 2011
The latest Reader performing arts reviews

A roundup of Reader performing arts reviews,
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Onstage, Performing Arts, Arts, Let My People Come, Axis Dance Company, Maestro, The Nutcracker, Our Holiday Stories, Assisted Living, The Gray Girl, An Interrogation Primer, Red Light Winter, Reservoir Dogs, Seven Doors, Cities of Light, Space Wars, All Childish Things, Twentyone, Fa La La La, Fuck It

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Looking at Kenneth Lonergan's film, Margaret

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Fresh reviews from the Reader's performing arts critics

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Goodman Theatre adds a couple more chances to see Race

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Producer Scott Rudin drops the Broadway version of Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park

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Hubris Production changes its mission statement

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A roundup of fresh reviews by Reader critics

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Remy Bumppo artistic director Timothy Douglas resigns

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Christmas Carol update Occupy My Heart at Studio BE through Thursday.

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A roundup of new performing arts reviews

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The main character of Sleep No More is the building in which it takes place.

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A rundown of newly reviewed shows in the performing arts.

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Review of Fiddler on the Roof, with John Preece as Tevye, at the Auditorium Theatre.

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The rundown on Reader performing arts reviews.

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"Playwrights as Writers" panel Saturday, 11/19, 2 PM, at the Chicago Book Expo.

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A roundup of Reader performing arts reviews,