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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Drawn togetheron February 18, 2020 at 7:30 pm

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

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