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Windy City Playhouse Takes Immersive Theater to the Next Level with The Recommendation

You’d think the meaty new production, The Recommendation, currently playing at Windy City Playhouse was tailor made for immersive theater.  With a few accommodating revisions …

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Eclipse Theatre’s Beyond Therapy Delivers Farce that Sparkles

It’s hard to imagine that Beyond Therapy, the delightfully outlandish farce Eclipse Theatre now has running at the Athenaeum, could be nearly as endearing under …

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About Face: Stonewall, Revolt and New Queer Art in a Class of its Own

Some things you merely enjoy and there are other things you feel very fortunate having experienced.  Entering its final weeks within Wrightwood 659’s captivating galleries, …

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Everything Plus

Pssssst.  What do you like most about summer in the city?  Beautiful surroundings. Top flight music.  A cold beer or a nice refreshing glass of …

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If I Forget Raw and Beautiful

Tolstoy had it right.  Happy families are all the same but every unhappy family has its own special brand of sad.  He didn’t mention the …

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Block Museum Unveils Riches of African History

Few things leave themselves open to expansion and clarification quite as much as history.  Those mandatory studies of the past we took in school amount …

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Writer’s Theater Delivers Another Coup

Inspirations, even when they spring from nowhere, can still end up remarkable artistic creations.  To hear playwright Brian Yorkey tell it, his Tony award winning …

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Abloh Ascending at MCA

Museums can sometimes act as portals to rich and complex worlds. The Museum of Contemporary Art’s Figures of Speech, a retrospective on the work of …

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Six Unstoppable

There was no master plan.  When the creators of the wildly successful musical Six came up with their concept to reintroduce the world to Henry …

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