Steppenwolf Theatre Company's Next Up gives directors and designers from the Northwestern University MFA program a chance to show what they can do. Continue
A retired Chicago public school theater teacher, Mary Bonnett has spent the last several years writing, staging, and producing plays with her company,…
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Regular people weren't supposed to understand what happened at Enron. The complicated financial maneuvers that brought the Texas-based energy company down were beyond abstract—they…
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Catalonian director Calixto Bieito made his name as a provocateur in opera, where audiences are grateful for provocation because it helps them stay awake.…
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What better time to foment revolution than now? And what better place than on government property? Last September, at the Chicago Park District's Hamlin…
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There's no better blend of old-timey tradition and cool innovation than Odds N Friends, a cartoony, playful, brilliantly strange variety show staged at the…
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This "paean to death" looks formidable on paper, with its big names (Rembrandt, Goya) and extensive inventory of objects (nearly 1,000, all from…
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The cloverleaf design Bertrand Goldberg used for Prentice Women's Hospital was groundbreaking back in 1975, when the distinctive concrete structure went up on Northwestern…
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We're all living in a museum here. A world-class repository of great architecture forms the mostly ignored backdrop for our daily routines. We all…
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As 16-millimeter prints become harder to obtain, public libraries across the country have been ditching celluloid in favor of DVD projection, despite its vastly…
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Also a prime contender for best sibilant name, this monthly series joins the Silent Film Society of Chicago's long-running Silent Summer Film Festival…
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"Jesus Christ, is that Michael Shannon?" I blurted out recently while watching Groundhog Day (1993)—specifically the scene in which Bill Murray delights a…
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Film preservation is a cultural cause whose time has come, especially since there are already so many historic films whose time has gone. Launched…
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Committed to overlooked genre cinema from other countries, this local collective debuted with a bang last December by presenting the Chicago premiere of…
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I'll never forget the time Jim Trainor introduced a screening of Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries (1957) at the Chopin Theatre. An accomplished animator…
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With next to no publicity, AMC's River East 21 multiplex regularly screens mainstream hits from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong—which, oddly, makes it one…
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Richard Cahan and Michael Williams's CityFiles Press has so far published two gorgeous hardcover photo collections that delve into Chicago history: Edgar…
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