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Q&A: Tamberla Perry of 'By the Way, Meet Vera Stark'
For RedEyeSure, she's a WGN host for Illinois Lottery drawings and was recognized in 2011 as one of Chicago Magazine's "50 Most Beautiful Chicagoans"—but Tamberla Perry is more than just a pretty face. You may also have seen the native Chicagoan—who...Tags: Boss (tv program), Entertainment Events, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Arts and Culture, Barack Obama
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Play based on a life becomes a story that touches all
"Write about your own life" says many a writing teacher to many a young scribe. Confronted with that authoritative solipsism, the young writer tends to worry about two things. First, that my life is not interesting enough to write about, especially not...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Drugs and Medicines, Yaz (drug), Pulitzer Prize Awards, Arts and Culture
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'Jungle Book' announces creative team
Tribune reporterThe Goodman Theatre has announced the creative team for its upcoming production of "The Jungle Book," the musical stage adaptation by Mary Zimmerman based on the 1967 Disney movie and the stories by Rudyard Kipling. In addition to Zimmerman, "Jungle...Tags: Music, Richard M. Sherman, Entertainment, The Jungle Book (movie)
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Filial search, through the murk
Even in translation, Juan Rulfo's superb and highly influential short novel "Pedro Paramo" is a powerful, haunting experience. Published in 1955, this famous Mexican story of a young man, Juan Preciado, who journeys to a ghostly desert town in search of...
Tags: Music, Fiction, Arts and Culture, Mexico, Entertainment
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Chicago museums reeling after building sprees
The turn of the millennium was a heady time for many Chicago cultural institutions. Cheap loans, high investment returns and swelling endowments spawned a slew of new attractions along the lakefront and around downtown. The Art Institute built its Modern...
Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, Arts and Culture, Museums, Museum of Science and Industry, Strikes
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Calculations on the edge of sanity in this eye-opening 'Proof'
You may well think you have seen David Auburn's "Proof," the story of a single, 25-year-old Hyde Park woman grieving for the mathematically brilliant father who has left her bereft. The Broadway national tour came through Chicago. There was a very solid...
Tags: Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, Arthur Miller, Arts and Culture, University of Chicago
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Gift finds the real people beneath 'Vigils' blunt symbols
Any theater company can make you fall in love again with a play you adore. The real mark for creative moxie is whether they can breathe life into a script that felt DOA the first time you saw it. When I saw Noah Haidle's portrait of a young, benumbed...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Anthony Minghella
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This weekend is bringing a 'Measure' of 'Proof'
This is a busy theater weekend in Chicago. Playwright David Auburn's "Proof" comes home to Hyde Park after 13 years, and at the Goodman Theatre, William Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure" takes a trip, perhaps a strange trip, to 1970s New York, an era...
Tags: William Shakespeare, Arts and Culture, University of Chicago, Hyde Park, Alexander Lukashenko
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Monday Night Live: A tiny cabaret with big surprises
Monday nights in the Loop would be a lot less lively if it weren't for "Monday Night Live." The popular series marked its fifth anniversary in September, and judging by the most recent installment, the concept still has plenty of life in it. At around...
Tags: Music, Entertainment Events, George Gershwin, Howard Reich, Entertainment
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Dinosaur-size debt
For many people the defining moment in the Field Museum's recent history was the bid at a 1997 auction that made Chicago home to the Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton known as Sue. But that choice could have far less impact on the Field's future than another...
Tags: Lobbying, Accounting and Auditing, Arts and Culture, Harvard University, Museums
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Goodman Theatre announces 2013-14 season including 'Venus in Fur' and new Rebecca Gilman drama
The Goodman Theatre announced its 2013-14 season Wednesday, a slate that includes a new play by Rebecca Gilman, a blues-infused Cheryl L. West drama about Pullman porters, Mary Zimmerman's "The White Snake" and the Chicago premiere of the sexy David...
Tags: Pullman, Arts and Culture, Venus in Fur (play)
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Citywide Expo Art Week announced
Tribune reporterSeveral of the city's major cultural institutions announced plans Tuesday to join together this fall for a "citywide celebration of arts and culture." Dubbed “Expo Art Week,” the event is set to encompass museum and gallery exhibitions,...Tags: Artists, Entertainment Events, Art Institute of Chicago, Arts and Culture, Culture
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