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div.article div.byline p.date {display:none;} Nathan Rabin Nathan Rabin is the head writer for The A.V. Club. His books include “The Big Rewind” and “My Year of Flops.” He also collaborated on “Weird Al: The Book.”...Tags: Movies, Teaching and Learning, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago Sun-Times, Entertainment Events
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Steppenwolf starting construction on education center
The Steppenwolf Theatre Company is about to post "pardon our dust" notices in its lobbies. On Monday, workers are to remove the facade of the former home of the Ethan Allen furniture store at 1700 N. Halsted St., located directly north of the...Tags: Arts and Culture
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Al Pacino and his 'Stand Up Guys' among the stars slotted for CIFF
With its founder Michael Kutza nearing his half-century mark as leader, the Chicago International Film Festival announced its 48th edition slate Thursday. Heavily concentrated, as it has been in recent years, at the downtown AMC River East 21 multiplex,...
Tags: The Sessions (movie), Movies, Quartet (movie), Arts and Culture, Millennium Park
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Lookingglass captures the ambiguity of baseball's barrier-shattering moment
![THEATER REVIEW: "Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting" at Lookingglass Theatre ★★★½ ... There's a moment in "Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting" when Branch Rickey, general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, throws a crumpled shirt into the arms of Jackie Robinson.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/column/2012-01/67398178-15162400.jpg "THEATER REVIEW: "Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting\" at Lookingglass Theatre ★★★½ ... There's a moment in \"Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting\" when Branch Rickey, general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, throws a crumpled shirt into the arms of Jackie Robinson.")
There's a moment in "Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting," the terrific new show at the Lookingglass Theatre, when the caller of the 1947 meeting, Branch Rickey, president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, throws a crumpled shirt into the arms of Jackie...Tags: Celebrities, Sports, Water Supply, Paul Robeson, Water Tower
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A few more 'Hit the Wall' shows. But this is last call at Stonewall.
"Hit the Wall," the hit, freewheeling show about the Stonewall riots, has been extended for one last week, Steppenwolf Theatre Company announced early Friday. The show, penned by Ike Holter, created by the independent theater company known as The... -
House Theatre still offering a 'Nutcracker' like no other
![THEATER REVIEW: "The Nutcracker" at House Theatre of Chicago ★★★ ... A few minutes into the House Theatre's distinctive "The Nutcracker," the Christmas jollity of an exuberant household is suddenly ended by a gust of frigid wind and the arrival at the door of a man in uniform.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/column/2011-11/66085679-14141932.jpg "THEATER REVIEW: "The Nutcracker\" at House Theatre of Chicago ★★★ ... A few minutes into the House Theatre's distinctive \"The Nutcracker,\" the Christmas jollity of an exuberant household is suddenly ended by a gust of frigid wind and the arrival at the door of a man in uniform.")
A few minutes into the House Theatre's distinctive version of "The Nutcracker" — one of my favorite holiday shows — the Christmas jollity of an exuberant household is suddenly ended by a gust of frigid wind and the arrival at the door of a man...Tags: Fiction, Religious Festivals, Concerts, Christmas, Holidays
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Tomorrow looking bright for 'Annie'
Everyone's first "Annie" should be at a venerable venue like the Paramount Theatre in Aurora, which opened for business in 1931, right when "Little Orphan Annie" mania was at its peak. The historic theater on the Fox River was built just one year after...
Tags: Animals, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Entertainment Events, To Kill a Mockingbird (movie), Music
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Etel Billig, Chicago theater pioneer, dies after taking ill at her theater
Etel Billig, the co-founder of the Illinois Theatre Center in Park Forest, an indefatigable pioneer of professional theater in the Chicago suburbs and a Chicago actress with decades of work on the city's leading stages, died March 28, after suffering a...
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New trailer is a first peek at 'August: Osage County' movie
Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Today, we are reminded of these universal truths: “Life is very long” (T.S. Eliot). “Family holds us up….Family knocks us down.” And Meryl Streep is poised for a 2013...Tags: Celebrities, Entertainment Events, Music, Arts and Culture, Entertainment
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Chicago International Film Festival gets a digital face-lift
The biggest changes afoot in this year's Chicago International Film Festival (CIFF), the 48th edition, are on the screen, yet they're not part of the programming. As the worldwide cinema industries push actual film — meaning celluloid — into...
Tags: Film Festivals, The Shining (movie), Holy Motors (movie), Festive Events, Arts and Culture
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'August' more intense as it opens on Broadway
Tribune theater criticMaybe the prolonged and confounding stagehands strike had Deanna Dunagan and Amy Morton all corked up and ready to burst. Maybe they're mindful that Broadway's cavernous Imperial Theatre housed "Les Miserables" for 13 years and is best suited to the...Tags: Real Estate Agents, Broadway Theater, Gary Sinise, Entertainment, Family
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Steppenwolf's confounding sage
Tribune arts criticAnna Shapiro remembers first reading "August: Osage County" late one night in the wintertime."I thought I'd doze off and finish in the morning," she recalls. "But I couldn't put it down." When she got to the end, she rang playwright Tracy Letts, also...Tags: Ingmar Bergman, Celebrities, William Friedkin, Movies, Suicide
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