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• Grin reaper

  20-08-2024 23:28 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Steppenwolf has been mixing it up in recent (post-COVID shutdown) years with solo comedy outings from national names like Mike Birbiglia (The Old Man and the Pool) and Alex Edelman (Just for Us). From a financial and audience development standpoint, that’s probably a wise choice. Solo comedy is cheaper to produce than a full play, […]
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• Legato Limbo Loud or GoFastWait introduces Chicago to Neal Adelman

  20-08-2024 22:50 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I’d never heard of Neal Adelman before seeing brand-new Dodge Box Theatre’s evening of one-acts, presented under the somewhat confounding omnibus title of Legato Limbo Loud or GoFastWait, at the Den Theatre. But based particularly on Adelman’s I, Custer—a brilliant long monologue that occupies the first slot on the bill—that’s a shame. The production is […]
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• Network remains more powerful onscreen than onstage

  20-08-2024 22:34 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Adapting stage to screen poses many problems. There’s usually something leaden and, uh, stagey about making a movie of a play; witness how few watchable Shakespeare films there are. They’re just very different animals, each with their qualities and flaws. Writer Lee Hall and director Charles Askenaizer have set themselves the even more difficult challenge […]
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• Do it with style

  20-08-2024 22:17 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Existing IP doesn’t always translate from screen to musical theater stage. In many ways, Back to the Future: the Musical is one of those shows. Some of the songs are mediocre at best and its bloated runtime puts it over 40 minutes longer than the original film. Even so, this amalgamation of automation innovation just […]
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• Bodies Outside of Unjust Laws protest ahead of the DNC

  20-08-2024 22:11 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “One, two, three, four. Fund abortions not war!” On the eve of the Democratic National Convention—with the eyes of thousands of politicians, delegates, media, and spectators trained on Chicago—a crowd of hundreds gathered at Wacker and Michigan for a one-mile procession through the Loop. Under the banner of Bodies Outside of Unjust Laws, the protesters […]
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• Riverbeast alert

  20-08-2024 17:19 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Don’t Let the Riverbeast Get You! screening 8/22 (sold out) and 9/23 at the Music Box Theatre
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• What a way to make a living

  20-08-2024 00:24 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene has to offer. Things have been hectic at my day job, and, as a result, I was a little less of a cinephile this past week than I usually am. It used to be […]
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