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• Lookingglass goes on hiatus, and Raven gets a new artistic director

  07-07-2023 19:41 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The return of Chicago theater (theater everywhere, really) since the pandemic continues to be a white-knuckle experience for many companies. Last Friday, 35-year-old Lookingglass Theatre (winner of the 2011 Tony Award for best regional theater) announced that they were putting all programming on pause until at least spring 2024 and cutting their staff by over […]
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• ‘Storefront Sondheim at its best’

  07-07-2023 17:35 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “It’s our time, breathe it in: / Worlds to change and worlds to win. / Our turn coming through, / Me and you, pal, / Me and you!” So proclaims “Our Time,” the soaring choral finale of Stephen Sondheim’s 1981 musical Merrily We Roll Along, now playing in an excellent new production by the Blank […]
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• Who gets to stay in Wicker Park?

  07-07-2023 17:29 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Alma Wieser has long had a dream. It involves saving Heaven Gallery, the Wicker Park vintage shop and arts space founded by David Dobie in 1997. Dobie is now president of Heaven’s board of directors; Wieser has spearheaded the gallery for the past several years. When Wieser speaks of what the gallery means to her, […]
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• Not fading away

  07-07-2023 17:19 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Alan Janes’s musical Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story is a clever piece of work, mixing the best elements of a biographical play, a jukebox musical, and a cover band concert into a bubbly, tightly written confection that reveals in 100 minutes why Buddy Holly was great and loved as a songwriter and performer and why […]
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• Sanctuary stories

  07-07-2023 16:51 via chicagoreader.com
  
  At the crux of writer/director Kareem Fahmy’s promising but incomplete drama is a father and a daughter, whose relationship is cruelly subject to the seemingly random structures of immigration policy and international border protocols. Any reunion between Shirin (Aila Ayilam Peck) and Peyman (Rom Barkhordar) will happen at the Haskell Free Library and Opera House, […]
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• Missing some beats

  07-07-2023 16:31 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Taken alone, political thrillers and farce can be tricky beasts to pull off. Put them together and you really have to have everything honed to the sharpest point possible for the laughs to land without completely diluting the dramatic tension. The 39 Steps already has a convoluted history. Patrick Barlow’s 2005 parody was adapted from […]
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• Will Downing on His Daughter’s Tragic Death and Mental Health Awareness

  07-07-2023 16:00
  
  Will Downing, who has been creating his brand of sophisticated soul for nearly 40 years, is experiencing a year of firsts — and it has nothing to do with music. 
  In January, his daughter Aron Siobhan committed suicide. She was bipolar, had depression and some schizophrenia. 
  Months after her death, Downing and his family still don’t exactly know why she died. 
  Downing has since released a single entitled “Till We Meet Again,” his conversation with Siobhan.
  
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• J. Pharoah Doss: California reparations…remission or restitution?

  07-07-2023 13:00
  
  Over the last decade, Americans have debated the necessity of a racial reckoning. This impulse led to puzzling attempts to make amends for the past.
  When spiritual guru Marianne Williamson launched her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, it was revealed that she led an audience in an apologetic prayer from White Americans to African Americans during a 2018 speaking tour. Williamson had the Whites plead for forgiveness for slavery, lynching, White supremacist laws, voting
  
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• Accused Philadelphia Mass Shooter Told Cops Strange Motive Behind Rampage

  07-07-2023 01:46
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  The gunman accused of killing five people and injuring two children in Philadelphia told authorities why he went on the deadly rampage. According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, 40-year-old Kimbrady Carriker told police he opened fire Monday night (July 3) to help authorities curb gun violence in the city.
  Reporters learned from sources close to the investigation that Carriker made these remarks hours after he was arrested on the 1600 block of South Frazier St
  
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• Does BDS solidarity lose elections? 

  07-07-2023 01:41 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On a Saturday evening in May, Zwelivelile “Mandla” Mandela, an elected member of the South African National Assembly and the grandson of Nelson Mandela, stood on stage at the Chicago Teachers Union and recited a chant from a South African tradition that echoed across the rooms of the hall. Mandela, invited to Chicago by organizers […]
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