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• The Plagiarists go out on a high note

  13-02-2024 20:56 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “Maybe people aren’t supposed to have their reality shattered every few years.” When a superhero known as The Titan is exiled by his arch nemesis, Dr. Fiendish, to a world without flying capes and fantastic capers, can he accept he is just a normal guy who dreamed up his crime-fighting career? Or are there more […]
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• Waiting for Lefty delivers with Gwydion Theatre

  13-02-2024 20:38 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Gwydion Theatre Company is a relatively new addition to the Chicago storefront scene (they moved here from Los Angeles last year), but their current revival of Clifford Odets’s Waiting for Lefty shows that they’re a welcome one. The company presented Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story and Dario Fo’s Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay! in fall of […]
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• Richard III at Chicago Shakespeare is flashy and fun

  13-02-2024 20:17 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The night before seeing Edward Hall’s stylish, arresting—but not totally convincing—production of Richard III at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, I finally caught up with Danai Gurira’s turn as the toxic monarch in the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park production, captured for Great Performances on PBS. Gurira is not disabled, but several members in the cast […]
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• Notes From the Field is a gut-wrenching experience

  13-02-2024 20:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Talented director Mikael Burke has assembled a powerhouse trio to perform a series of 19 riveting and gut-wrenching monologues that attempt to cut the Gordian knot that is the school-to-prison pipeline. Playwright Anna Deavere Smith’s Notes From the Field is drawn from her research involving over 250 interviews that encompass insightful voices from a wide […]
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• Varsity collect a year of monthly singles on the new Souvenirs

  13-02-2024 19:43 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On Saturday, February 17, breezy Chicago indie-rock group Varsity headline Schubas to celebrate the album Souvenirs, which the five-piece self-releases on Friday. Souvenirs compiles the monthly series of singles that Varsity put out throughout 2023, a project the band undertook to address the ways the pandemic had derailed their routines—it gave them a structure for […]
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• Judy’s Life’s Work is a serious and valuable new play

  13-02-2024 19:43 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The world premiere of Loy A. Webb’s Judy’s Life’s Work is everything a playwright could hope for. Director Michelle Renee Bester and her first-rate cast bring out every emotional nuance in the story of Xavier, known as X (the powerful Rashun Carter), as he attempts to avoid foreclosure on the gym which represents his life’s […]
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• Antigone is a stirring conclusion to Court’s Oedipus Trilogy

  13-02-2024 19:29 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Back in college, when I mentioned I was writing a paper on Antigone as presented in both the Sophoclean original and in Jean Anouilh’s 1944 French Resistance–era update, a dorm friend rolled her eyes. “She is such a useless martyr!” she proclaimed. I couldn’t exactly disagree—except to ponder, “What makes a useful martyr?” That’s part […]
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• La P*nche India struggles to find the right tone

  13-02-2024 19:07 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When we meet Gigi (Iris García) she is having a crisis of personality. Staring horrified in front of her bedroom mirror, the blonde wealthy woman is suddenly a dark-haired Indigenous woman. Gigi immediately gets on the phone with her best friend Marcia (Stefanie Jara), caught up in a racist diatribe about waking up as someone […]
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• Peter Jericho has been outside, and he wants y’all to join him

  13-02-2024 17:47 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When someone is “outside,” sometimes that means they’re out having a good time. Sometimes, though, it describes an outsider—someone who doesn’t belong in a group or place. Afro-soul artist Peter Jericho has lived both senses of the word. He was born in Chicago, but his family took him to their homeland of Cameroon when he […]
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• Bridging gaps in Chicago’s postpartum health care coverage

  13-02-2024 15:44 via chicagoreader.com
  
  After Kristen Nuyen gave birth to her son in September, she received a free, at-home medical visit through Family Connects, a Chicago Department of Public Health program that partners with participating hospitals around the city. Nuyen expected the standard, postpartum visit to take half an hour. Instead, the nurse spent more than three hours in […]
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• Gabriel Moses’s celestial glow

  13-02-2024 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Stepping into “Marsha” at Anthony Gallery feels almost like a religious experience. The human form, placed at the forefront of each composition, is celebrated in a way that invokes awe and wonder. Textures are rich and glistening skin tones are strikingly contrasted. Here, Gabriel Moses offers viewers a glimpse into his universe, one filled with […]
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• The Waters, by Bonnie Jo Campbell, follows a family of self-reliant women in rural Michigan.

  13-02-2024 02:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Writer Bonnie Jo Campbell is not the sort of person you expect to see on TV. She seems too real, too unawed by lights and glamour to be sharing the screen with a celebrity journalist so carefully put together she could pass for AI. Yet there she was one morning on the set of the […]
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