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• The return of “theater prom”

  30-03-2023 21:32 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Non-Equity Jeff Awards, affectionately known as “theater prom,” came roaring back after a four-year hiatus at the Park West on Monday, March 27. And it’s safe to say the program, directed by Adrian Abel Azevedo, was a lovefest through and through. The awards show (coming on the heels of the packed opening of the […]
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• Guineverean legend

  30-03-2023 18:49 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Idle Muse Theatre Company’s The Last Queen of Camelot, scripted and directed by Idle Muse artistic director Evan M. Jackson, plays like an Arthurian fantasy graphic novel come to life. Jackson’s take on the tale of legendary sixth-century British King Arthur Pendragon (Joel Thompson) focuses on Queen Guinevere (Caty Gordon-Hall), Arthur’s wife through an arranged […]
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• Out in orbit

  30-03-2023 18:23 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Originally developed by the Philadelphia-based Pig Iron Theatre Company in 2015, this queer adventure drag alt-comedy feels both like a natural fit for Hell in a Handbag Productions and a reach light-years away from its usual projects—sisters from across the multiverse, you could say. Depressed and apathetic about modern dating, a young gay man (Robert […]
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• Soviet slapstick

  30-03-2023 18:03 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Heading into opening night of Dying for It at Artistic Home, I wasn’t sure what to expect from Moira Buffini’s adaptation of The Suicide, a 1928 satire by Soviet playwright Nikolai Erdman that was banned by Joseph Stalin. Frankly, the subject matter sounded a bit niche—or maybe I was just feeling rusty on Soviet history […]
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• A perfect nightmare

  30-03-2023 17:49 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Like the people in the allegorical Tower of Babel, the citizens of Jacqueline Goldfinger’s futuristic Babel are seeking oneness. The kind of oneness that mankind has never reasonably come close to, because each person is born with a set of characteristics, skills, and behaviors—unless we engage in eugenics. In an eerily not-so-distant-seeming future, Goldfinger’s world […]
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• Trilogy of terpsichore

  30-03-2023 15:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In 2016, the Chicago Cultural Center presented the exhibition Strandbeest: The Dream Machines of Theo Jansen. Built by the Dutch inventor since 1990 and described by their maker as “new forms of life,” strandbeests surpass their man-made material—PVC pipes—to become something animate and other, each with dozens of narrow yellow legs. Simultaneously archaic and advanced, […]
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• Nashville School Shooter’s Chilling Final Messages to Friend Revealed

  30-03-2023 14:21
  
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  Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale sent chilling messages to a friend before killing three students and three staffers at Covenant on Monday (March 27).
  According to NewsChannel5, Hale, a 28-year-old former student at Covenant, messaged Averianna Patton, her middle school basketball teammate, on Instagram at 9:57 a.m. before the deadly school shooting.
  “So basically that post I made on here about you, that was basically a suicide note. I’m planning to die today,
  
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• Senegalese legend Baaba Maal makes retro Afrofuturist music on Being

  30-03-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Senegalese superstar Baaba Maal has been recording for close to four decades, and at age 69 he still sounds relentlessly, almost eerily contemporary. While his first album, 1984’s Djam Leelii, features himself and his teacher Mansour Seck on acoustic guitars in a mesmerizing, fluid triumph of griot tradition, he’s since embraced electronics and transnational collaboration. […]
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• This Week In Black History March 29-April 4, 2023

  30-03-2023 05:55
  
   March 291981—Dr. Eric Williams, prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, dies in Port of Spain at the age of 79. Williams was a historian and his classic work was “Capitalism and Slavery.”March 301870—The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified giving Blacks the right to vote. Actually, it gave Black males the right to vote. It would take the Suffrage Movement and another 50 years before women (Black and White) had full voting rights. But even in the case
  
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