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Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Dec 26, 2012
Eight faves, six stars, and a horror: 2012 in theater

The best productions, beloved artists, and a show more than one Reader writer hated
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Timothy Douglas, Remy Bumppo Theatre, Chay Yew, Sandy ShinnerOedipus el Rey, Luis Alfaro, Ameriville, The Iceman Cometh, Goodman Theatre, Robert Falls, Nathan Lane, Eugene O'Neill, Sunday in the Park With George, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Gary Griffin, Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine, A Sunday on La Grande Jatteè—1884, The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, National Theatre of Scotland at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Black Watch, Marat/Sade, Right Brain Project, Nathan Robbel, Peter Weiss, Enron, Timeline Theatre, Lucy Prebble, Rachel Rockwell, Hit the Wall, the Inconvenience, Steppenwolf Theatre's Garage, Empanada for a Dream, Yo Solo Festival of Latino Solo Shows, Juan Francisco Villa, Marc Grapey, Arturo Soria, Melissa Lorraine, Mark Montgomery, Calixto Bieito, Camino Real

Best of Chicago, Arts & Culture Jun 20, 2012
Critics' Picks
Best Economics Lesson Not Written by Brecht

Enron at Timeline Theatre
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Arts & Culture, Best of Chicago 2012, economics lesson not written by Brecht, Enron, TimeLine Theatre, Lucy Prebble, Rachel Rockwell, TimeLine Theatre Company, Critics' Picks

Arts & Culture, Culture Vultures Apr 9, 2012
This week's Culture Vultures recommend:

Enron, art in the Loop, and the Larry Sanders Show
- By Kelsey Gee
- Tags: Culture Vultures, Enron, Bethany McLean, TimeLine Theatre, David Salkin, public art, The Loop, Mies van der Rohe, Sol LeWitt, Chagall, Picasso, Stephen Sowley, Larry Sanders

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

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Feb 2, 2012
The Age of Arrogance

Timeline Theatre brings back the ugliness of it all with Enron
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Enron, Lucy Prebble, Jeffrey Skilling, Andrew Fastow, creative accounting, white collar crime, embezzlement, Bret Tuomi, Newt Gingrich, Sean Fortunato, Rachel Rockwell, TimeLine Theatre, Goldman Sachs

Blogs, Bleader Jun 24, 2010
A Good Day for Conrad Black

Supreme Court cuts honest-services fraud statute down to size, making freedom for Conrad Black more likely
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News Bites, U.S. Supreme Court, Conrad Black, Jeffrey Skilling, Enron, Hollinger International, Chicago Sun-Times, Justice Ruth Ginsburg, Justice Antonin Scalia, Justice Clarence Thomas, Judge Amy St. Eve, Judge Richard Posner, Honest-services fraud

Blogs, Bleader Mar 2, 2010
The Honest Services Law Has a Rough Day in Court

Skeptical Supreme Court considers the Honest Services law.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News Bites, Jeffrey Skilling, Conrad Black, Enron, Chicago Sun-Times, U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Antonin Scalia, Right to Honest Services Law

News & Politics, Media Dec 17, 2009
Audio
His Father's Honor

Why the son of a shamed former Illinois governor is so interested in the Supreme Court's review of the "honest services" law
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, Richard Nixon, John Mitchell, Supreme Court, honest services law, honest services fraud, Amy St. Eve, Conrad Black, Otto Kerner, Anton Kerner, Seventh Circuit, Kerner Commission, Intangible rights, McNally v. United States, Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, Antonin Scalia, James Thompson, David Radler, Bruce Weyhrauch, Jeffrey Skilling, Enron, textualist, Stephen Breyer, Justice Department, Audio

Blogs, Bleader Jul 15, 2006
Did Ken Lay deserve to die?

Sometimes a macabre joke masks a good question.
- By Harold Henderson
- Tags: Death Penalty, Kenneth Lay, Cruel And Unusual, Enron, Crime, Punishment, White-Collar Crime

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Eight faves, six stars, and a horror: 2012 in theater

The best productions, beloved artists, and a show more than one Reader writer hated

Critics' Picks
Best Economics Lesson Not Written by Brecht

Enron at Timeline Theatre

This week's Culture Vultures recommend:

Enron, art in the Loop, and the Larry Sanders Show

The latest Reader performing arts reviews

A roundup of fresh reviews by Reader critics

The Age of Arrogance

Timeline Theatre brings back the ugliness of it all with Enron

A Good Day for Conrad Black

Supreme Court cuts honest-services fraud statute down to size, making freedom for Conrad Black more likely

The Honest Services Law Has a Rough Day in Court

Skeptical Supreme Court considers the Honest Services law.

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His Father's Honor

Why the son of a shamed former Illinois governor is so interested in the Supreme Court's review of the "honest services" law

Did Ken Lay deserve to die?

Sometimes a macabre joke masks a good question.

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The best productions, beloved artists, and a show more than one Reader writer hated

Enron at Timeline Theatre

Enron, art in the Loop, and the Larry Sanders Show

A roundup of fresh reviews by Reader critics

Timeline Theatre brings back the ugliness of it all with Enron

Supreme Court cuts honest-services fraud statute down to size, making freedom for Conrad Black more likely

Skeptical Supreme Court considers the Honest Services law.

Why the son of a shamed former Illinois governor is so interested in the Supreme Court's review of the "honest services" law

Sometimes a macabre joke masks a good question.

Other Searches