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Thursday, September 30, 2021

Revisiting a Post-Apocalyptic Play in the Pandemic by Rachel Shteir

Anne Washburn’s phantasmagoric “Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play” is getting a timely new run at Theater Wit in Chicago.

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Tuesday, May 7, 2019

A New Adventure for ‘Augie March’: A Chicago Stage by Rachel Shteir

The first theatrical adaptation of a Saul Bellow novel is about to open in the city, and campus, that helped shape his sensibility.

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Friday, March 9, 2018

Ibsen Wrote ‘An Enemy of the People’ in 1882. Trump Has Made It Popular Again. by Rachel Shteir

The play, about a divisive antihero and whistle-blower, has no good guys, and a town tragically divided by politics.

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Thursday, July 31, 2014

Interpreting ‘The Maids’ Through a Shifting Societal Lens by Rachel Shteir

Productions of Genet’s play “The Maids” have variously zeroed in on class, gender, race and, now, an obsession with celebrity.

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Jan 09, 2024: Prayer For The French Republic - Samuel J. Friedman Theatre

Jan 28, 2024: Days of Wine and Roses - Studio 54

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