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• Review: The Wild Robot

  26-09-2024 20:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Wild Robot in wide release in theaters
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• Review: Patrice: The Movie

  26-09-2024 20:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Patrice: The Movie in limited release in theaters and streaming on Hulu
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• Review: Never Let Go

  26-09-2024 20:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Never Let Go in wide release in theaters
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• Review: Child Star

  26-09-2024 20:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Child Star streaming on Hulu
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• Review: A Different Man

  26-09-2024 20:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A Different Man in limited release in theaters, followed by wide release
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• AI meets Afrofuturism

  26-09-2024 17:56 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I’m not totally used to artists openly exploring the deeply humorous, even unserious nature of their work. But in “Revisionist History,” artist Tyanna J. Buie encourages viewers to chuckle with her at an AI interpretation of her family legacy, had it not been sidetracked by the centuries-long, diasporic impact of colonialism. Beginning with a set […]
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• Light Switch is a warm look at queerness and neurodiversity

  26-09-2024 17:24 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Autism onstage arguably really came into its own with Simon Stephens’s 2012 stage version of Mark Haddon’s novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. In 2017, Mickey Rowe, who played autistic Christopher in a coproduction of the play with Indiana Repertory Theatre and Syracuse Stage, became the first actor with autism to […]
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• A tale of two brothers

  26-09-2024 16:59 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “I don’t gotta spend my whole life hustling,” Lincoln says. “There’s more to Link than that.” Before he spent his days impersonating Abraham Lincoln at his assassination in an arcade, Lincoln was a three-card monte street hustler. He was a damn good one at that—and his little brother Booth constantly implores Lincoln to teach him […]
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• What would Fat Jesus do?

  26-09-2024 16:46 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Von Harris wanted to cook his Great-Grandma Shortstop’s greens for his high school classmates and teachers. It was one of a series of lunches that served as evaluations for an advanced cooking class called Chef and Restaurant Cooking. For his prep list, the 15-year-old Hinsdale South sophomore requested collard, mustard, and turnip greens, along with […]
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• They keep their victims ready

  26-09-2024 16:43 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In 2022, Omer Abbas Salem scored a hit with his dramedy about a Syrian American family, Mosque4Mosque, produced by About Face Theatre. Salem’s latest, Happy Days Are Here (Again), now being presented by Steep Theatre at Steppenwolf’s 1700 Theater, is far removed from the warm and witty feeling that permeated his earlier work. But given […]
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• An array of Ariels

  26-09-2024 15:55 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Open the program for Idle Muse Theatre Company’s production of The Tempest and you might assume there’s a typo at first glance. Six actors are credited as Ariel, an ethereal spirit who serves Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan who raises his daughter and practices sorcery on a remote island.  The TempestThrough 10/20: Thu–Sat 8 […]
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• A mighty Wind

  26-09-2024 00:47 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Let us take a moment to celebrate the welcome return of Harry Lennix to our local stages this year. After playing a Jesse Jackson–like figure in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Purpose at Steppenwolf and August Wilson in the late playwright’s theatrical memoir, How I Learned What I Learned, produced by Congo Square Theatre Company at the Broadway […]
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• A light repast

  26-09-2024 00:26 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Is it odd to see Michael Frayn’s 1982 theatrical farce, Noises Off, onstage at Steppenwolf? Yes. Could Anna D. Shapiro’s cast do a little more to flesh out the material? Probably yes. Will you have a delightful time anyway? Also probably yes (unless you hate farce, which is a perfectly acceptable stance).  If we’re going […]
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