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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 24, 2012
Margaret: Immature

Looking at Kenneth Lonergan's film, Margaret
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Onstage, Film, Performing Arts, Arts, Margaret Week, Gene Siskel Film Center, Anna Paquin, Kenneth Lonergan, Matt Damon

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 23, 2012
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If you liked Manual Cinema's Ada/Ava . . .

Recommending Fjords by Manual Cinema
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Paranormal, Onstage, Lit & Lectures, Music, Performing Arts, Arts, Books, Manual Cinema, Ada/Ava, Chicago Q Ensemble, Kyle Vegter, Fjords Vol. 1, Zachary Schomburg, Poetry Foundation, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 23, 2012
The latest Reader performing arts reviews

Fresh reviews from the Reader's performing arts critics
- by Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Onstage, Performing Arts, Dance, Arts, Devil May Care, Garage Rep, Shakespeare, Diary of a Madman, Elder Gods, Hamlet, Kill Me, Man Boobs, A Midsummer Night's Dream, My Kinda Town, Recycled Circus, The Ritz, Romeo and Juliet, South Pacific, Superior Donuts, They Are Dying, Molly Shanahan, LUMA, Heaven and Hell, Association of Writers & Writing Programs

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 17, 2012
Steppenwolf expands

Steppenwolf Theatre expands with purchase of neighboring building
- by Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Performing Arts, Arts, Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago Real Estate Daily, Dave Matthews

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 17, 2012
The Toronto Chicago Cultural Plan

The Chicago Cultural Plan will be written in Toronto
- by Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Lit & Lectures, Music, Visual Art, Clout City, News, Performing Arts, Dance, Arts, Books, Chicago Cultural Plan, Lord Cultural Resources, Michelle Boone, Orit Sarfaty

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 16, 2012
Have you heard of Ron Shock?

Benefit tonight for Ron Shock
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Performing Arts, Comedy, Arts, Ron Shock, Drew Frees, Mike Lebovitz, Junior Stopka, Lincoln Lodge

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 16, 2012
The latest Reader performing arts reviews and previews

Fresh performing arts reviews and previews
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Onstage, Performing Arts, Dance, Arts, American Idiot, Ameriville, Dating Walter Dante, Baseball Music, Bell, Book, and Candle, Chester and the Unbearable Burden, Crossed, Crowded House, The Gingerbread House, Hunger, Orpheus Descending, The People's Barnum, Show Boat, Sweet Home, Joffrey Ballet, Winter Fire

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 14, 2012
The show's aged better than the write-up

Gains have been made in drama criticism
- by Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News Bites, Performing Arts, Arts, Show Boat, New York Times

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 10, 2012
"The Love Song of Saul Alinsky"

Barack Obama sat in on a 1998 panel discussion of the play The Love Song of Saul Alinsky. So, was the play any good?
- by Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Media, Performing Arts, Arts, Michael Miner, Saul Alinsky, The Love Song of Saul Alinsky, Blue Rider Theatre, Adam Langer

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 9, 2012
The latest Reader performing arts reviews and previews

Fresh theater and dance reviews and previews
- by Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Religion, Onstage, Performing Arts, Dance, Arts, Piety, Hesperia, Disgraced, Androcles and the Lion, George Bernard Shaw, Jeremy Menekseoglu, The Foreigner, Bachelorette, The Gog/Magog Project, Jack's Precious Moment, Letters/X, El Mari Chi Chi, burlesque, Peter Pan's Shadow, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Unnecessary Farce, Zastrozzi, Solo Jams, Bonedanse, RNDC, River North Chicago Dance Company

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 7, 2012
Tonight: CSO, Muti, and Mason Bates

Chicago Symphony Orchestra performs Alternative Energy by Mason Bates
- by Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Music, Performing Arts, Arts, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Muti, Mason Bates, Alternative Energy

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 3, 2012
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Mamet alert: Race runs on

Goodman Theatre adds a couple more chances to see Race
- by Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Onstage, Performing Arts, Arts, Goodman Theatre, David Mamet, Race, Chuck Smith, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 3, 2012
Why didn't Bruce Norris play the game?

Producer Scott Rudin drops the Broadway version of Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Onstage, Performing Arts, Arts, Bruce Norris, Scott Rudin, Clybourne Park, Steppenwolf Theatre, Anna D. Shapiro, Amy Morton, Martha Lavey, Michael Riedel, The Pain and the Itch

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 2, 2012
Hubris Productions comes out of the closet on snarkiness

Hubris Production changes its mission statement
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Onstage, Performing Arts, Arts, Hubris Productions, Torch Song Trilogy, Steel Magnolias, Agnes of God, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Bent

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 2, 2012
The latest Reader performing arts reviews

A roundup of fresh reviews by Reader critics
- by Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Onstage, Performing Arts, Comedy, Dance, Arts, Enron, The Hunchback Variations, Rhinofest, 6 Pleasant Avenue, In/Corporate, The Girl in the Yellow Dress, Hedda Gabler, Homeland, The Houdini Box, Motion, Quake, Residue, Time Stands Still, The Feast: In Intimate Tempest, Long Gone Lonesome, National Theatre of Scotland, Never Been to Paris, Stranded! The Lost Sketches of Brain Freeze, The Seldoms, Chicago Children's Theatre, Harry Houdini, Sean Flannery, football, Super Bowl, Shakespeare Theater Company

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 27, 2012
The latest Reader performing arts reviews

Fresh performing arts reviews from Reader critics
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Inside the Reader, Performing Arts, Arts, Behind Our Scenes, Rhinofest, Invisible Man, Race, Court Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Accidental Rapture, Jennifer Biddle, An Aspect of God and Next and Her Savior, Black Pearl Sings, Civil War Dad, Clutter, Dark Play or Stories for Boys, Collaboraction, Carlos Murillo, Love and Money, Steep Theatre, On Loss, Mark Chrisler, Punk Rock, Simon Stephens, Griffin Theatre, Hawkeye Plainview, Tennyson Spade, A Woman's Path, Annoyance Theatre, Totally Adequate Scone, Dance Colective, Built by Fault

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 25, 2012
Coal play

Hiroshi Teshigahara's Japanese ghost story Pitfall screens tonight at Chicago Cultural Center.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Lit & Lectures, Film, Performing Arts, Arts, Books, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Pitfall movie, J.R. Jones, Chicago Cultural Center, Toru Takemitsu, Kobo Abe, Century Club, The Woman in the Dunes, The Face of Another, The Man Without a Map, Peter Grilli, Criterion Collection, French New Wave, Luis Bunuel, Los Olvidados, Knox College, Michael A. Schneider, Mat Ryohei Matsuda, Orna Shaughnessy, Robin Metz, Elizabeth Carlin-Metz, Vitalist Theatre of Chicago, The Ghost Is Here, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, theater, literature, movies

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 24, 2012
The latest Reader performing arts reviews

A roundup of new performing arts reviews
- by Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Onstage, Performing Arts, Comedy, Dance, Arts, The American Drink Book, Strangers, Daphne du Maurier, Flannery O'Connor, Mike McKune, Kelly Anchors, I Love You Permanently, Beau O'Reilly, Our Kate Takes a Trip, Blizzard '67, Devils Don't Forget, Tartuffe, Come Fly Away, In the Heights, Hubbard Street Dance, The Ghost is Here, I Am Saying This Right Now, The Legend of Buster Neal, Little Triggers, Megacosm, To Tree, Your Funniest Friends

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 24, 2012
Where is God?

Roman Polanski's Carnage and the Goodman Theatre production of the Yasmina Reza play on which it's based
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Performing Arts, Arts, Carnage, God of Carnage, Roman Polanski, Yasmina Reza, Christopher Hampton, Holocaust, amorality, Goodman Theatre, Rick Snyder

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 22, 2012
The Young Playwrights Festival gets a new home, for now

A review of The Pegasus Players' Young Playwrights Festival in the soon-retired Hull House.
- by Asher Klein
- Tags: Performing Arts, Arts, Pegasus Players, Hull House, Hull House Association, Young Playwrights Festival, Hunter Speese, Trina Young, Arthur Pascale, Whitney Young High School

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