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• Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 is a celestial experience

  19-09-2024 23:26 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A musical based on War and Peace sounds like a ludicrous proposition. And of course it is—which is why Dave Malloy’s Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 only focuses on a 70-page interlude within Leo Tolstoy’s masterpiece. (Or so I’ve been told. Full disclosure: I’ve never read it.) But going off of Katie […]
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• Review: Wolfs

  19-09-2024 20:33 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Wolfs in limited release in theaters, streaming on Apple TV+ 9/27
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• Review: Transformers One

  19-09-2024 20:33 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Transformers One in wide release in theaters
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• Review: My Old Ass

  19-09-2024 20:33 via chicagoreader.com
  
  My Old Ass in limited release in theaters, wide release 9/27
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• Gen Z is into typewriters

  19-09-2024 19:50 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Typewriter Chicago Hours by appointment; 1525 Ogden, Unit L, Downers Grove
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• The Reader’s guide to World Music Festival Chicago 2024

  19-09-2024 17:58 via chicagoreader.com
  
  You’ve probably noticed that it’s getting harder to afford to live. Americans consistently vote against any policy that might prevent our money from ending up in the pockets of the same two dozen assholes who are already richer than god, so now an estimated 78 percent of us are living paycheck to paycheck.    This is, […]
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• Rage against the dying of the light with a new Monday Night Foodball schedule

  19-09-2024 17:17 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A waxing gibbous supermoon rose over the car-swept intersection of Campbell and Elston. A white van with tinted windows pulled up to the curb. The doors opened and a cloud of smoke billowed forth, moonbeams cutting through the miasma, rendering two figures slouching in silhouette. Two sauce-stained, off-the-clock cooks stepped forward onto the patio fluorescence […]
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• An excerpt from TAXI GIRL, a novel by Maria Schreiber

  19-09-2024 16:32 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “All about Yogurt” Four-minute read On Monday, June 3, 1974, Tania and Dan began selling cartons of yogurt from a  canopied, yellow bicycle cart on the southeast corner of   Michigan Avenue and Erie Street in Chicago. At 11:30 a.m. two weeks later, Michael Chappelle looked out the window of his third-floor  office at the Michigan […]
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• Where arts education in Chicago began

  19-09-2024 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Situated on the University of Illinois Chicago’s (UIC) campus, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum historicizes the influential social settlement from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. But little has been done to illuminate the innovative arts education piloted at Hull-House until now. “Radical Craft: Arts Education at Hull-House, 1889-1935” does just that. The exhibition and […]
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• ‘A poetry show that’s not a total bummer’

  19-09-2024 00:31 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Kost was itching to produce an event last summer. After a nine-month tour of the U.S. with a children’s theater company, the poet-director-writer-performer wanted to create something of their own. They bounced ideas off of their roommate, Lincoln Lodge manager Christian Borkey, including a potential poetry reading or comedy show. Borkey suggested combining both. Kost […]
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• The language in which they dream

  19-09-2024 00:05 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Stages of Survival is an occasional series focusing on Chicago theater companies, highlighting their histories and how they’re surviving—and even thriving—in a landscape that’s become decidedly more challenging since the 2020 COVID-19 shutdown. When I ask Aguijón Theater cofounder and co-artistic director Rosario Vargas what inspired her to open the company 35 years ago, she […]
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