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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Sidebar, May 22, 2013
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It's Gertie Garbage's world

We just live in it. The sixth iteration of her anarchic performance festival is May 25.
- by Hannah Gold
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, School of the Art Institute, Eileen Lillian Doyle, Gertie Garbage, Garbage World, Philadelphia, The Oblivioustrician and the Midtrife, Anna Norell, Krissy Abalbaball, Peaking, Heather Marie, Mothergirl—Katy Albert and Sophia Hamilton, Antibody Corporation, The Nyx Project, Hanna M. Owens, Chris Little, Elena Feijoo, HairClub, Will Haughery, Take My Breath Away, Dark Daze: A Ritual of Abandon, Conclusionary Practices, But Ourselves, Recommended

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Sidebar, May 15, 2013
Last night I dreamt I went to Indie Boots Theatre Festival again . . .

The inaugural fest presents nine short plays with a curious conceit: all have "Rebecca" in the title.
- by Jena Cutie
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Indie Boots Theatre Festival, Mudgeonsoul, Spenser Davis, Rebecca Says Be Cool, Rebecca-Crazy, Lucca Suvi, Liz Siedt, Rebecca Back to Life, Rebecca's Broken Less Than Sign Number Three, Ron Burch, Rebecca's Roommate, Amanda Petefish-Schrag, Jack Helbig, Snow White, Who Is Also Called Becky, No, Rebecca. . . and the Frog Prince, Michelle Meyers, Rebecca and Larry Get Stuck in Traffic, Rebecca on the Bus, Jennie Webb, Ian Fines, Rebecca's Laugh

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Sidebar, May 1, 2013
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Stages, Sights & Sounds sets its sights on fairy tales

That's the theme of the Chicago Humanities Festival's annual kid-friendly spring fling, featuring 44 performances by six troupes.
- by Hannah Gold
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Stages, Sights & Sounds, Chicago Humanities Festival, Europe, North America, Grimm, Sleeping Beauty Dreams, Marionetas de la Esquina, Hansel and Gretel, L'Illusion Théâtre de Marionettes, Under the Stars, Cloud Man, Murder on the Midwest Express, Theatre Unspeakable, Agatha Christie, Paige Hernandez, Paige in Full

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Sidebar, Apr 8, 2013
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Black Ensemble Theater's weeklong engagement

Five full-lengths, five short takes, and two parties—all in the seven-day Black Playwrights Festival
- by Jena Cutie
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Black Ensemble Theater, Black Playwrights Initiative, Jackie Taylor, Paul Oakley Stovall, Jil Ross, The Last Word, Jarrin Davis, Light, Loy Webb, For Alice and August, Leonard M. Ferris, Savages, Katrina V. Miller, The Holidays

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Sidebar, Mar 28, 2013
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In Chicago, comics do it by the seat of their pants

The 16th annual Chicago Improv Festival kicks off on April Fools' Day.
- by Jena Cutie
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, 16th Chicago Improv Festival, TIM: A Night of Timprovisation, The Hot Karl, Tim Chidester, Second City, Tim Stoltenberg, LGBT Showcase, Thora Birch, Blood Oath, Raising Hope, Lucas Neff, Community, Craig Cackowski, Better Half, Virgin Daiquiri, The Del Close Farewell Salute To Chicago, Cook County Social Club, 30 Rock, Scott Adsit, Jet Eveleth, Adsit and Eveleth, Messing With a Friend, Susan Messing, Mission IMPROVable, John Barinholtz, Rob Belushi, Colleen Doyle, Jason Shotts, Dummy, The Improvised Philip K. Dick, New York, Downtown Abbey, Improvised Shakespeare Company, John Lutz, Kay Cannon, Annoyance Theatre, Playground Theater, The Comedy Bar, Gorilla Tango Theatre, Lincoln Tap Room, Recommended

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Sidebar, Jan 9, 2013
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The Homeland in His Head

RE|Dance cofounder Michael Estanich goes back to his Appalachian roots
- by Laura Molzahn
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, RE, Dance Group, Homeland dance, Michael Estanich, Lucy Riner, Nemacolin Pennsylvania, Fiddlers 4, Wailin' Jennys, Daiva Bhandari, Kym Nolden, Hamlin Park, Hamlin Park Fieldhouse Theater, Recommended

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Sidebar, Dec 27, 2012
The Fillet of Solo festival is back

The storytelling fest hits sweet 16, running three weeks
- by Niel Spidle
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Fillet of Solo Festival, Lifeline Theatre, Big Stories, Up Close, Heartland Studio, GayCo, Amanda Rountree, 185 Buddhas, 2nd Story, EnSolo, The Kates, Alicia Solisdrawl, Mia McCullough, Story Club, Write Club, Tekki Lomnicki, Anne Purky, Beth Ann Bryant-Richards, Sweat Girls

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Sidebar, Dec 5, 2012
The Letters is more than just Marx on a page

Writers' Theatre production confronts life under Stalin
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Joseph Stalin, USSR, Russia, despotism, John Lowell, Kate Fry, Mark Montgomery, Kimberly Senior, Rachel Anne Healy, Writers' Theatre

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Sidebar, Oct 24, 2012
Raising the singles bar

Ten artists contribute a performance apiece to MPAACT's late-night Solo Jams series
- by Becca Oken
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, MPAACT, Solo Jams, Kate McCandless, Jesse Dean Stanford, Jamie Black, D-Nick the Microphone Misfit, Dawn Bless, Martin M. Morrow, Celeste Cooper, Huey Amaru, Tremaine Montell Ford

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Sidebar, Oct 10, 2012
The new boo review

Frankenstein, pig's blood, and zombie boobs: A selection of seven shows for Halloween 2012
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Halloween, Halloween theater

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Sidebar, Oct 9, 2012
A perfect Sunday in the Park With George

Chicago Shakespeare's staging of the Sondheim musical is a walk in the, well . . .
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine, Georges Seurat, Sunday on La Grande Jette—1884, Carmen Cusack, Jason Danieley, Gary Griffin

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Sidebar, Oct 3, 2012
Four-star Comedy Fest at Navy Pier

A celebration of Chicago-style comedy at Navy Pier
- by Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, comedy, Chicago School of Comedy, Ben Capraro, Jimmy Carrane, comedy workshops, Annoyance Theatre, ComedySportz, iO, Actors Training Centre, Tim Kazurinsky, Charna Halpern, Baby Wants Candy, Cook County Social Club, Uncle Brother's

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Sidebar, Oct 3, 2012
Equivocation gives the Bard a good shagging

Playing English-major games with a writer called Shagspeare
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Sean Graney, Shakespeare, Richard III, Bill Cain, The Hypocrites, Marc Grapey, Arturo Soria

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Sidebar, Sep 26, 2012
Puppets of apartheid

Georg Büchner's tragedy, transposed to 1950s South Africa in Woyzeck on the Highveld
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Georg Bucnher, Franz Woyzeck, Handspring Puppet Theatre, William Kentridge, apartheid

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Sidebar, Aug 28, 2012
Fringe Without Borders

The Chicago Fringe Fest hosts troupes from as far away as France, Korea, and Highland Park
- by Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, fringe theater, Sarah Mikayla Brown, Vinnie Lacey, Rebecca Kling, White Elephant, Alan Turing, The Island, Dada, Small Fish Radio Theatre, Thespinarium, Doug Vincent, La Petite Famile, George Contini

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Sidebar, Aug 15, 2012
Think of it as Yippie Easter

Mary-Arrchie Theatre resurrects the spirit of Abbie Hoffman with Abbie Fest
- by Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Abbie Hoffman, revolution, the Pentagon, Conspiracy Seven, Richard Cotovsky, Matt Rieger, Rush Pearson, Bilal Dardai, Lola Balatro, Jennifer Olson

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Sidebar, Aug 1, 2012
Latinos alone at Yo Solo

Two-thirds of this new festival is don't-miss stuff
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Yo Solo, Latino theater, Febronio Zatarain, Lisandra Tena, KJ Sanchez, Cheryl Lynn Bruce, Sandra Delgado, Isabel Allende, Rey Andujar, Juan Francisco Villa

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Sidebar, Aug 1, 2012
Victory Gardens cultivates the next big thing

Or, to mix metaphors, five plays get a jump-start from the Ignition Festival
- by Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Chay Yew, Martin Zimmerman, Lauren Yee, A. Rey Pamatmat, Yussef El Guindi, Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Sidebar, Jul 10, 2012
Celebrating the tasseled tit

Ecdysiasts grind into town for the Windy City Burlesque Fest
- by Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Windy City Burlesque Festival, burlesque, striptease, pole dancing, showgrrrl, Kristina Nekyia, Kitten de Ville, Tiffany Carter, Blaze Starr

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Sidebar, Jun 27, 2012
No halfsies for "Going Dutch"

The three-evening festival offers women's work only
- by Allegra Kirkland
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Links Hall, Core Project Chicago, Megan Beseth, Carrie Gant, the female experience, gender roles, Ginger Jensen, Renegade Dance Architects, Raphaelle Ziemba, Sydney Hestla, Rumi

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