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• The Drew-Vels launched the career of soul diva Patti Drew

  22-05-2024 22:17 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Soul music has a long tradition of great family groups, and the Chicago scene is no exception—our city has birthed stars like the Five Stairsteps and the Staple Singers as well as lower profile acts like the Kelderons and the Du-Ettes. Siblings can develop a downright unearthly musical rapport by spending years singing harmonies together […]
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• Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s Of Joy points to a new direction

  22-05-2024 19:58 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Hubbard Street Dance Chicago closed out their year with Of Joy, its spring engagement at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance. And the title proved apt across the quartet of pieces in the evening. Starting the program was Echoes of Our Ancestors, choreographed by Maria Torres. Torres worked with the company through group rehearsal […]
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• On the Twentieth Century offers a fun and nostalgic trip

  22-05-2024 18:59 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Rarely has a mediocre musical received as sparkling a revival as Blank Theatre Company’s current rendition of On the Twentieth Century, the Adolph Green-Betty Comden-Cy Coleman adaptation of a 1932 play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur (based on an unpublished play by Charles Bruce Millholland). The premise is simple: theatrical producer Oscar Jaffe (played […]
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• Native Son gets a stirring revival at Lifeline

  22-05-2024 18:43 via chicagoreader.com
  
  First coproduced in 2014 by Court Theatre and American Blues Theater, Nambi E. Kelley’s adaptation of Richard Wright’s 1940 novel Native Son is now in a stirring revival at Lifeline under ILesa Duncan’s direction. It’s the first of two plays by Chicago native Kelley running this spring: Court’s production of Stokely: The Unfinished Revolution (a […]
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• Lavender Men is a time-traveling queer fantasia

  22-05-2024 18:22 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Lavender Men—in its midwest premiere with About Face Theatre—is giving opportunity; opportunity to see the story from another angle, perhaps. It’s a chance to trip lightly through a fantasia and through time itself. It’s part revisionist history that undoes centuries of queer and Black erasure by confronting American myths perpetrated by the privileged, and part […]
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• TimeLine exits their longtime home with a Dust Bowl drama

  22-05-2024 18:05 via chicagoreader.com
  
  With stories of migrants and climate change in the news every day, Chicago playwright Dolores Díaz’s Black Sunday couldn’t be more timely—even if it is set in 1935. TimeLine Theatre’s world premiere, directed by Helen Young (the last production in their longtime Wellington Avenue home), offers a welcome lens on a chapter in Great Depression […]
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• Next to Normal gets a South Asian perspective

  22-05-2024 17:45 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Sixteen years after the premiere of the original Tony Award–winning musical Next to Normal (book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey and music by Tom Kitt), Pop Up! Productions presents a South Asian rendition to Chicago audiences at the South Asia Institute. Next to NormalThrough 5/26: Thu-Fri 7 PM, Sat-Sun 2 and 7 PM; South Asia […]
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• Meet Ted Williams III: 2024 Chicago Defender Men of Excellence Honoree

  22-05-2024 16:30
  
  As an educator, performance artist, playwright, actor and public servant, Ted Williams III is truly a hyphenate. This man of many talents, who has a profound commitment to education, community service and the arts, has been selected as a 2024 Men of Excellence honoree. 
  “I’m just honored to be considered among the real movers, shakers, influencers, and community servants who represent the group of men who are being honored this year and have been honored previously,” Willi
  
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• Parkway Ballroom Reborn as Parkway Social, Celebrates Black Majesty in Bronzeville

  22-05-2024 14:45
  
  In 1939, a Black entrepreneur opened the Parkway Ballroom in Bronzeville to celebrate Black creativity, enterprise, and community.  
  In this place, Black people from all walks of life came together to be entertained, intrigued and well-fed. 
  The Parkway Ballroom was a source of elegance and dignity amid segregation and hate. Many notable entertainers like Langston Hughes, Josephine Baker, Nat King Cole and Lena Horne have stepped foot in this historic building.
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• ‘Bling Bishop’ Lamor Whitehead Bail Revoked, Jailed Ahead Of Sentencing

  22-05-2024 14:30
  
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  Lamor Whitehead, known as New York’s “Bling Bishop,” has been sent to jail ahead of his sentencing for extortion and fraud.
  According to the New York Daily, Manhattan Federal Judge Lorna Schofield recently revoked Whitehead’s bail after he was convicted of one count of making false statements to the FBI, one count of attempted extortion, one count of attempted wire fraud, and two counts of wire fraud in March.
  During a two-week trial, Whitehead, pastor
  
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• The Carr Report: How not to suck at money!

  22-05-2024 14:00
  
  Here’s something that may surprise you. Most people suck at managing money regardless of how much money they make. Yep, it’s possible to be good at earning money and terrible at spending, saving and investing money. It’s possible to be both a tightwad and a spendthrift simultaneously. How can one be a tightwad—someone reluctant to spend money and be a spendthrift—someone who spends money in a reckless way? Easy, we all have things that we absolutely refuse to spend
  
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• MR. SONNY KNOWS for May 22, 2024

  22-05-2024 14:00
  
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