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• Metaphysical Shops of Chicago

  23-10-2024 23:31 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Where the Witches Gather The first thing I did when I moved to Chicago six years ago was find a local metaphysical store. While I have a hard time defining exactly what category my craft falls into (I grew up Wiccan but have since distanced myself from what can be a culturally appropriative community), I’ve […]
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• Brothers on a boat

  23-10-2024 23:23 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Factory Theater’s Inheritance -or- Brothers from the Deep explores the gaping depths of family trauma and what it means to confront what’s lurking at the very bottom.  Written by ensemble member and new artistic director Michael Jones, the story is contained in a single scenario as brothers Marcus (Malachi Marrero) and Bentley (Jelani Julyus) […]
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• Coral

  23-10-2024 21:59 via chicagoreader.com
  
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• Coronation offers a dystopic view of the end game of patriarchy

  23-10-2024 20:23 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Just in time for the election, Refracted Theatre Company unveils Coronation, a dystopic sorta-comedy by Laura Winters about women politicians, queens, and environmental disaster. Directed by Tova Wolff, the show may be almost too painful to watch at times (kinda like trying to watch the later episodes of Veep during the Trump administration). But though […]
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• Dystopian equality

  23-10-2024 19:42 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Take the mass surveillance and sinister double-speak of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, the toxic workplace of Apple TV+’s Severance, and the saccharine authoritarianism of Imelda Staunton’s Dolores Umbridge in the Harry Potter franchise, and you’ll get something like the setting of Evil Perfect. Written by Spencer Huffman and directed by Jonathan Shaboo, this world premiere […]
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• Jocey y Las Mariachis is a charmer

  23-10-2024 19:22 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Visión Latino Theatre Company’s contribution to the seventh Destinos: Chicago International Latino Theater Festival is Jocey Villa’s charming autobiographical solo with music, Jocey y Las Mariachis. Cowritten with Flavia Pallozzi and directed by Yajaira Custodio in the cozy basement theater at APO Cultural Center in Pilsen, Villa’s piece traces her love of music as a […]
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• Chicago Reader Volume 54, Number 4

  23-10-2024 19:20 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Reader Volume 54, No. 4. October 24, 2024
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• Babes in the woods

  23-10-2024 19:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It was a surprise to see stage combat–focused Babes With Blades Theatre Company stage a Shakespeare comedy (my last experience was a dark and subversive Richard III). While the production drags at times with uneven pacing, the application of BwB’s physical acting style to Shakespeare’s daffy comedy is also refreshing and fun.  The company’s stated […]
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• Poets in prose

  23-10-2024 18:36 via chicagoreader.com
  
  There’s a mini Sarah Ruhl fest at Theater Wit right now, with Shattered Globe’s Becky Nurse of Salem running concurrently with Remy Bumppo’s latest, Ruhl’s epistolary play Dear Elizabeth. Based on the correspondence of American poets Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, Dear Elizabeth (directed by Christina Casano) is a more straightforward narrative than those familiar […]
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• Stark comedy

  23-10-2024 17:56 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Lynn Nottage, the first Black woman to win two Pulitzer Prizes in drama, is nothing if not expansive in her interests. Her first Pulitzer was for Ruined, about women trapped in the Democratic Republic of Congo civil war, which premiered at the Goodman in 2008. Her second was in 2017 for Sweat, a searing portrait […]
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• Bottle Fly offers a ‘swampy recipe for queer drama’

  23-10-2024 17:37 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Bottle Fly at Redtwist Theatre is set in the Everglades and packed with queer confrontation softened by poetic soliloquies and lengthened by equally poetic diatribes, bringing the heat of deep Florida to Chicago. Written by playwright-librettist Jacqueline Goldfinger, the story centers around a family—Cal (Johnny Garcia), Rosie (Laura Sturm), and K (Rebecca VandenBos)—who have taken […]
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• The Book of Me looks at the pitfalls of international adoption

  23-10-2024 17:19 via chicagoreader.com
  
  MPAACT (Ma’at Production Association of Afrikan Centered Theatre) produces a surprising story centered around the Afrikan diaspora at the Greenhouse Theater. Written by Leonard House, The Book of Me follows the birthday celebration of an 18-year-old who was adopted from Ethiopia by a U.S. couple, and her attempt to find out more about her birth […]
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• Kinky canvassing

  23-10-2024 16:21 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On an otherwise quiet early-October Sunday morning, a troupe of leather daddies and drag activists shout from a fabulous vortex of glitter, eyelashes, leather, and lace that swirl outside the Leather Archives & Museum (LA&M): “Are you registered to vote?” Amid cheers, whoops, and honking car horns, a kinky contingent of more than a dozen […]
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• Support Illinoisians affected by breast cancer with your purchase of a $200,000! Bingo Tripler Instant Ticket from the Illinois Lottery

  23-10-2024 16:15 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In 2006, the Illinois Lottery made history when it launched the Ticket for the Cure (TFTC), the first-ever specialty lottery ticket in the United States where 100 percent of profits were dedicated toward breast cancer research, awareness, and education. Initiated by Senator Mattie Hunter and Senate President Emil Jones Jr., the Instant Ticket became a […]
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