Drawn togetheron February 18, 2020 at 7:30 pm

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Long before smartphones provided immediate access to porn and the ubiquitous "dick pic," gay men were limited to physique magazines,…

Art critic Lori Waxman wants to support your artists visaon February 18, 2020 at 9:30 pm

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Among the matches burning in the dumpster fire of U.S. immigration is the system of chutes and ladders facing foreign…

‘The Allure of Matter’ pushes boundarieson February 18, 2020 at 9:45 pm

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It's not every day you see 128 roof tiles displayed on a gallery floor, ash from joss sticks painted on…

Kiev reveals the murky depths of a family’s guilt.on February 18, 2020 at 10:20 pm

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Anton Chekhov's famous dictum that if a gun is introduced in the first act, it must go off by the…

Lipstick Lobotomy looks at a Kennedy tragedyon February 18, 2020 at 10:30 pm

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Kate Hendrickson directs the Chicago premiere of Krista Knight's Lipstick Lobotomy, an arch but moving 2019 play about mental illness,…

Invictus Theatre brings light and heat to A Raisin in the Sunon February 18, 2020 at 10:50 pm

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Before Ta-Nehisi Coates laid out "The Case for Reparations" in the Atlantic in 2014, Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 classic A Raisin…

Shear Madness is retro, but not rewardingon February 18, 2020 at 11:00 pm

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Adapted by Marilyn Abrams and Bruce Jordan from the original play Scherenschnitt, (scissors cut), by German playwright Paul Portner, Shear…

Stick Fly takes flight at Writerson February 18, 2020 at 11:15 pm

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In 2017, First Floor Theater premiered Leah Nanako Winkler's Two Mile Hollow--a send-up of what Winkler terms "white people by…

Sandra Bland’s life and death provides the inspiration for graveyard shifton February 19, 2020 at 3:00 am

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Quentin Tarantino's movie Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood is in part a gauzy wish fulfillment fantasy…