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Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman is Gorey-meets-Kafkaon March 4, 2020 at 12:15 am

Once upon a time, in a room that looked like a fifth-grade classroom after a firebombing followed by an era…

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Mrs. Warren’s Profession confronts our hypocrisies about sex workon March 4, 2020 at 12:05 am

To get an idea of just how convoluted the legal and moral attitudes toward sex work are in the United…

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Middle Passage is part voyage of the damned, part picaresqueon March 4, 2020 at 12:00 am

Lighting out for the territory, as Huck Finn put it, may be central to the American dream of liberty, but…

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I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter is a resonant coming-of-age storyon March 3, 2020 at 11:45 pm

There is a moment in I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter where Ama (Charin Alvarez), mother of protagonist Julia,…

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Here Lies Henry is daringly strangeon March 3, 2020 at 11:40 pm

Interrobang Theatre Project presents a revival of Daniel MacIvor's daringly strange one-person show, Here Lies Henry, starring Scott Sawa in…

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Hedda Gabler: A Play With Live Music shows us a woman fighting for her voiceon March 3, 2020 at 11:15 pm

Lauren Demerath rages, leers, screams, flirts, and, best of all, sings her way through an unforgettable turn in the title…

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Michael O’Brien’s high school basketball notebookon March 4, 2020 at 4:16 am

No game for me tonight, which is always weird with so much going on but a necessary thing while I…

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Chatham fire injures 1: fire officialson March 4, 2020 at 5:08 am

Filed under: A 45-year-old man was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in serious-to-critical condition, authorities said. By…

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Even in sports, there is no immunity from the coronaviruson March 4, 2020 at 4:42 am

The coronavirus is here, and it will affect many parts of our lives, though to what degree we don't know.…

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Noise musician Jason Soliday on a voice that makes electronics mooton March 3, 2020 at 8:25 pm

A Reader staffer shares three musical obsessions, then asks someone (who asks someone else) to take a turn. click to…

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