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• The price of safety

  07-02-2024 22:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Sitting in near silence in an apartment, curtains drawn, television above a whisper, and fans oscillating to feign static sound. That is how we meet Taroon (Owais Ahmed). Alone in a Kabul residence, he is fighting the Wi-Fi router, trying desperately to connect with his American military allies. Taroon is in hiding for his own […]
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• The power of memory

  07-02-2024 21:42 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Mark David Kaplan is terrific as Tevye in Drury Lane’s new production of the Jerry Bock–Joseph Stein–Sheldon Harnick classic. The show opens in a deep haze, transporting us into Tevye’s memories with a staging that, according to director Elizabeth Margolius, explores “the meaning, movement, and essence of remembrance.” For the most part, Margolius’s approach works; […]
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• The Outgoing Tide traces one family’s struggle with Alzheimer’s

  07-02-2024 21:20 via chicagoreader.com
  
  If you wanted an example of a pretty well-structured contemporary American play you could do worse than Bruce Graham’s drama The Outgoing Tide. Graham’s characters—an elderly man with Alzheimer’s, his heartbroken wife, and their emotionally damaged son—are well drawn. His dialogue feels real but is witty enough to keep our interest. God knows, the story […]
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• On October 21st, 2023, We Wander into a Restaurant Labeled Online as “Mediterranean” for Dinner

  07-02-2024 21:13 via chicagoreader.com
  
  By Czaerra Galicinao Ucol
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• Magic, mystery, and 60 chickens

  07-02-2024 20:51 via chicagoreader.com
  
  What’s most apparent in Peter Samelson’s Magic, Love, Mystery is the magician’s love for his craft and its ability to bond people. Samelson is a seasoned magician who’s renowned for how he brings poignancy and humanism to an art form that’s easy to deride as cheesy or passé. In this show, he uses a variety […]
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• Mommy wars

  07-02-2024 20:28 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Anna Ouyang Moench is having a moment on Chicago stages right now; her play In Quietness, about women at an evangelical Homemaking House, is playing at A Red Orchid Theatre. Now Gift Theatre presents the local premiere of Moench’s 2019 dystopic comedy Mothers, directed by Halena Kays. It also looks at the conflicts between “traditional” […]
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• Sunsets in a basement

  07-02-2024 19:49 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The term storefront gets tossed around as a catchall for modestly budgeted performance spaces. But Chicago stage artists and viewers are likely familiar with an even more shoestring venue category: garden view.  Sunsets: Two Acts on a BeachThrough 3/3: Fri-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 2 PM; Open Space Arts, 1411 W. Wilson, openspacearts.com, $25 ($20 students/seniors, […]
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• Dogs, kitties, and fish . . . oh my!

  07-02-2024 19:27 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Dav Pilkey’s popular series of kids’ books about a crime-fighting superhero mutant dog form the basis for this touring TheaterWorks USA musical production, which has settled in at the Studebaker this month. It’s a goofy, high-energy affair that somehow often feels a little big even for the large stage it’s on; there’s a fair amount […]
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• In the Heights doesn’t quite reach the top

  07-02-2024 19:26 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Lin-Manuel Miranda’s pre-Hamilton musical In The Heights (book by Quiara Alegría Hudes) is not a work of genius, but it deserves a better production than it’s currently receiving at Marriott Theatre under James Vásquez’s direction. First, a work with this many crosscurrents can only be muddied by the in-the-round staging that is Marriott’s stock-in-trade; before […]
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• Lidia Vomito, DJ of the Graveyard Hour

  07-02-2024 18:41 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Lidia Vomito is a Chicago DJ and vinyl collector who also works at the Loop location of Reckless Records. She got her start as a punk and metal DJ in the mid-2000s, and in 2015 she launched the Lumpen Radio show Release the Hounds to share her passion for dark and heavy music. Her best […]
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• Chicago Reader Volume 53, No. 9

  07-02-2024 17:42 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Reader Volume 53, No. 7. January 11, 2024
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• Raven Theatre and Block Museum tackle climate change

  07-02-2024 16:31 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Last year was the hottest year in human history. Including 2023, five of the hottest years on record have been in the past 20 years. Yet, there is still an inclination for most to turn the channel (literally or figuratively) when climate change is mentioned. Rapid climate change is a reality the Earth and everything […]
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• Norman Teague draws inspiration from John Coltrane’s masterpiece

  07-02-2024 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In these days of violence and uncertainty, I’ve been seeking gratitude. As such I’ve returned to Wendell Berry’s It All Turns on Affection—a brief but profound book that calls for a turn away from an aspirational economy driven by technology and back to caring for the land around us. Affection, I believe, requires gratitude—for what […]
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