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Playwrights Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon wrap up their Pride and Prejudice fan fiction trilogy with Georgiana and Kitty, once more bringing to the center of the action characters perip…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:36PMIt’s hard to write a play whose hero is the American Medical Association (AMA), even as embodied by crusading Dr. Morris Fishbein (the appealing Andrew Bosworth) and his equally earnest [�…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:07PMRefuge, the wrenching portrait of a Central American woman’s effort to reach the U.S. receiving its midwest premiere at Theo Ubique, is less a play than a ritual with music […] The post …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:04AMPlaywright Jackie Sibblies Drury had too many things in mind when she wrote this play about Mary Seacole, a real-life Jamaican-born healer who improbably served in the 19th-century Crimean W…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:49PMLong before the term “meta” entered common parlance there was Arsenic and Old Lace, a 1939 play by Joseph Kesselring about how plays are ridiculous. It’s also a play about […] The po…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:13PMIf you didn’t know that Noël Coward was an actor as well as a playwright, you’d figure it out within minutes of seeing any of his plays: how else to […] The post Cool Kids vs. Normies…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 04:10PMIf National Merit had to be pitched as a movie, it would be “The Breakfast Club in a test prep class.” Competing for high scores and the scholarship that goes […] The post Teaching to …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:16PMThere are half a dozen exceptionally talented individuals in the new Second City e.t.c. revue, Great Altercations. But that turns out to be a problem: they remain individuals rather than for…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:35PMIt is a truth universally acknowledged that it’s actually harder to write a rave review than it is to write a pan. How to communicate the thrill of seeing a show that’s just exactly what…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:28AMNatalie Y. Moore’s play The Billboard, now in a world premiere with 16th Street Theater, is subtitled “A Play About Abortion.” In the spirit of Chicago improv, allow me to say: Yes, an…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:10AMThis is an impeccable production of a play whose weaknesses outweigh its considerable strengths. It’s the 1960s episode of August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle, tracing a century of life in …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:06PMWhen everyone on the stage is excellent, it shows a director fully in command of the material. That’s the case with Cody Estle’s production of The Luckiest by Melissa Ross, receiving its…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMHeidi Schreck weaves together civics, feminism, and personal history in this vital production. At the very start of What the Constitution Means to Me, author Hei…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 05:05PMDouglas Turner Ward's 1965 satirical one-act holds more historic than contemporary interest. Day of Absence is a show with one joke and two audiences. The joke i…
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