- Arts & Culture, Small Screen Mar 23, 2017
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CBS’s Superior Donuts serves up nothing but holes
The TV series based on Tracy Letts’s Steppenwolf stage comedy is a corn-syrup north-side minstrel show.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 8, 2017
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Rauner doesn't think the GOP's Obamacare replacement plan will work in Illinois, and other Chicago news
Also, the Chicago Jewish Day School was evacuated because of a bomb threat.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 2, 2017
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Steppenwolf’s eclectic performing-arts series LookOut winds down
The winter leg features everything from comedy to spoken word to music.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Feb 15, 2017
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Young Jean Lee’s Straight White Men plays the game of Privilege—literally
The playwright-director brings her didactic, intentionally annoying play to Steppenwolf.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 13, 2017
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Writers Resist, Grilled Cheese Meltdown, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend
Filmspotting, Handmade Market, and more happenings from January 13-15.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Dec 15, 2016
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Crisis comes to the megachurch in Steppenwolf’s The Christians
Lucas Hnath’s gospel-infused drama addresses religious faith in unconventional form.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 23, 2016
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Erika Sheffer’s The Fundamentals does David Mamet proud
The intriguing outweighs the dutiful in Steppenwolf’s new production.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Oct 1, 2016
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Cheers Live, Dog Night, The Happiest Place on Earth, and nine more new theater reviews
The latest Chicago stage shows range from the rawly emotional to the enjoyably ridiculous.
- Movies, Fall Preview Sep 7, 2016
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Ten best bets for fall movies
Oliver Stone tells the Snowden story, Nate Parker tells the Nat Turner story, and Ewan McGregor tries to tell Philip Roth's story, plus other highlights.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Aug 3, 2016
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The southern drama Byhalia, Mississippi remains essential viewing
Steppenwolf's 1700 Theatre revives Evan Linder's searing play.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jun 30, 2016
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The Gift Theatre gives us a stripped-down Grapes of Wrath
But it doesn't run any better than Steppenwolf's 1988 luxury model.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 27, 2016
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A Prince and Bowie Tribute, The SpongeBob Musical, and more things to do this week in Chicago
Isaac Oliver, Cash Levy, and more happenings from June 27-30
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 13, 2016
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Eddie Huang's Double Cup Love, Rooftop Cinema Club, and more things to do in Chicago this week
Chicago's Leading Ladies, Spring BBQ, and more happenings from June 13-16
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 9, 2016
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Jeff Awards committee, Steppenwolf, and others condemn abuse alleged in Reader investigation of Profiles Theatre (Updated)
In addition, actors in Chicago and elsewhere have come forward to share their own stories of abuse.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Jun 8, 2016
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Steppenwolf's Constellations and Voice Lessons, and 13 more new stage shows
An endless meet-cute and an off-key farce are among this week's notable plays.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Apr 14, 2016
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Tracy Letts and the case of the missing play
The best parts of Steppenwolf's Mary Page Marlowe may be the ones that aren't there.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Feb 18, 2016
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Steppenwolf's The Flick, BoHo Theatre's Fugitive Songs, and 13 more new stage shows
Among the notables: limited runs of Cabaret and the one-man Sancho: An Act of Remembrance at Chicago Shakes
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Dec 23, 2015
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Chicago theater was true to our times in 2015
Theater Wit's Bad Jews and the Goodman's Stop. Reset. are among our senior theater critic's favorites of the year.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Dec 16, 2015
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Steppenwolf's Domesticated is a battle tooth and claw
Bruce Norris's dark comedy looks at the aftermath of a political sex scandal.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Oct 1, 2015
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Steppenwolf's East of Eden is a mythic misstep
Frank Galati's adaptation of the Steinbeck novel doesn't find a way 'in and in and in.'
