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A tsunami of news and a new path for Actors' Equity membership

A tsunami of news and a new path for Actors' Equity membership

Changes in faces, places, and union rules might be harbingers of a shifting landscape in Chicago theater.

By Kerry Reid

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The Green Knight shines when it embraces the strange

But stumbles when it tries to stay too true to its source.

By Colleen Morrissey
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Fiesta del Sol, Free Street, and more

Upcoming events and recommendations for the next seven days

By Kerry Reid and Salem Collo-Julin
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1971-2021

By Kirk Williamson

Yasser Tejeda brings the Afro-Dominican quijombo to the LatiNxt Festival

By Catalina Maria Johnson | 11.00 AM
Chicago indie workhorse Liam Kazar reaches for the sublime on his debut solo album

By Leor Galil | 06.30 AM
Chicago songwriter Emily Jane Powers supercharges Isometry with wild guitar work

By Leor Galil | 06.00 AM
Can you get genital crab infestations from a massage?

By Dan Savage | 07.30.21
Ten favorites from the Cannes Film Festival 2021

By Max Maller | 07.29.21

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Health: Does Coffee Make You Sleepy?

Researchers now understand how caffeine works on the nervous system. For some, it may cause the opposite of its intended effect.

By Roger Downey | 05.24.90

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Agenda Teaser

08.02.21

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Performing Arts

Still/Here

April 30

Slo 'Mo presents I'm Every Woman: Divas Through the Decades featuring Akenya and friends, Akenya and friends, avery r. young, Mother Nature, Rhea the Second, Thair, Schenay Mosely, Mermaid, DJ Vitigrrl

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Slo 'Mo presents I'm Every Woman: Divas Through the Decades featuring Akenya and friends, Akenya and friends, avery r. young, Mother Nature, Rhea the Second, Thair, Schenay Mosely, Mermaid, DJ Vitigrrl Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park

August 02

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