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The Tragedy of Macbeth
The first question to ask of any film adaptation of a centuries-old play is, Why? Why again? Why now? The opening of Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth made me doubt that the answer was anything more...
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Sing 2
With Sing 2, writer/director Garth Jennings and his A-list cast have created an animated spectacle to rival the glory days of the Ziegfeld Follies, those eye-popping, cast-of-thousands song-and-dance...
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Don’t Look Up
Don’t Look Up is depressing. But this isn’t a warning not to watch the film. It’s more a suggestion to mentally prepare for such a scathing satire at the increasingly worrisome end of an already...
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‘What happened in the community was almost like a brush fire’
What hit harder, the racism or the pandemic? When the world shut down, theater performances came to a halt. No one was laughing about anything. Improvisers couldn’t perform, and theaters across the...
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Best of Chicago 2021: Bonus round of nominations
Thank you to everyone who participated in the first round of Best of Chicago nominations. We are tabulating the first round and will reveal the finalists when we publish the final multiple choice Best...
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Streaming and dreaming
Last month, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, or IATSE, voted to ratify a contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), narrowly avoiding what...
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Plays in a pandemic
By the time this year ends (it is gonna end, right?), Reader critics will, by my count, have reviewed 69 live theater and dance performances. That’s far less than in most years, but a veritable...
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Matches
I’m 58, 6ft 2, live in Palos Hills, IllinoisSeeking a relationship with a nice young woman over 21 or 40. I am part black and Puerto Rican hoping someone could be a special. pauly63@live.com SWM Bull...
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Chicago producer Equip builds new worlds from video-game music and vaporwave
Chicago producer Kevin Hein had been tinkering with computer music for about seven years when he fell in love with vaporwave in the mid-2010s. Since then, Hein has used the name Equip to release a...
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The latest issue is the issue of December 23, 2021. Download the issue as a free PDF. The next issue will be the issue of January 6, 2022. Never miss a copy! Print subscriptions are available for 12...
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No superman is an island
Disney used to be best known for its children’s animation. But over the last decade the House of Mouse has become the House of Hulk. Princesses and neotenous animal companions haven’t vanished. In...
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Dreams of his father
Alaudin Ullah was on the cusp of something big. Well, what too often passes for something big when you’re an actor in Hollywood of South Asian ancestry—the chance to audition for the role of a...
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Wadada Leo Smith joins forces with guitarists Henry Kaiser and Alex Varty on...
Trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith, who turned 80 earlier this year, is seemingly at the height of his creative life—despite having already catalogued decades of accomplishments across dozens of...
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because we are ours, no matter the distance
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Grieta en la pared
Read in English A Rafael “Rafa” Rojas le encantaba el arte grafiti, especialmente las letras burbujas. Como joven artista de Pilsen, quería aprender sobre la estructura de las letras y la teoría del...
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The best Chicago books of 2021
Every year, I wonder if Chicago’s literary renaissance will ever start to ebb. No city can keep this up forever, right? But just like last year and the year before, dozens of new fiction, nonfiction,...
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Searching for the CTA holiday train
Leer en español “Ho! Ho! Ho! All aboard Santa’s express train!” If you’re lucky, then you’ve taken a ride on the CTA holiday train. You know, the one decked in colorful blinking lights that blasts...
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‘We would like to help’
We started with a bang. In January, a mob of supporters of the last presidential administration attacked the United States Capitol building in D.C., grabbing lecterns, posting selfies, and leaving a...
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Buscando el tren navideño de la CTA
Read in English “¡Ho! ¡Ho! ¡Ho! ¡Todos a bordo del tren exprés de Santa! “ Si eres uno de los afortunados, entonces has tomado el tren navideño de CTA. El tren adornado con luces parpadeantes y música...
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