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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
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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
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Arts & Culture
Jun 20, 2012
Critics' Picks
Best Economics Lesson Not Written by Brecht
Enron
at Timeline Theatre
By Tony Adler
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Best of Chicago 2012
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economics lesson not written by Brecht
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Enron
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TimeLine Theatre
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Lucy Prebble
,
Rachel Rockwell
,
TimeLine Theatre Company
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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
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Enron
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Bethany McLean
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TimeLine Theatre
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David Salkin
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The Loop
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Mies van der Rohe
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Sol LeWitt
,
Chagall
,
Picasso
,
Stephen Sowley
,
Larry Sanders
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Bleader
Feb 2, 2012
The latest
Reader
performing arts reviews
A roundup of fresh reviews by
Reader
critics
By Sharon Lurye
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Dance
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Arts
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Enron
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The Hunchback Variations
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Rhinofest
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6 Pleasant Avenue
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In/Corporate
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The Girl in the Yellow Dress
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Hedda Gabler
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Homeland
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The Houdini Box
,
Motion
,
Quake
,
Residue
,
Time Stands Still
,
The Feast: In Intimate Tempest
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Long Gone Lonesome
,
National Theatre of Scotland
,
Never Been to Paris
,
Stranded! The Lost Sketches of Brain Freeze
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The Seldoms
,
Chicago Children's Theatre
,
Harry Houdini
,
Sean Flannery
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football
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Shakespeare Theater Company
Arts & Culture
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Performing Arts Review
Feb 2, 2012
The Age of Arrogance
Timeline Theatre brings back the ugliness of it all with Enron
By Tony Adler
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Enron
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Lucy Prebble
,
Jeffrey Skilling
,
Andrew Fastow
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creative accounting
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white collar crime
,
embezzlement
,
Bret Tuomi
,
Newt Gingrich
,
Sean Fortunato
,
Rachel Rockwell
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TimeLine Theatre
,
Goldman Sachs
Blogs
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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
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Conrad Black
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Jeffrey Skilling
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Enron
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Hollinger International
,
Chicago Sun-Times
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Justice Ruth Ginsburg
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Justice Antonin Scalia
,
Justice Clarence Thomas
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Judge Amy St. Eve
,
Judge Richard Posner
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Honest-services fraud
Blogs
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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
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News Bites
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Jeffrey Skilling
,
Conrad Black
,
Enron
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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
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,
Kenneth Lay
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Cruel And Unusual
,
Enron
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Crime
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Punishment
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White-Collar Crime
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