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It's a nerd world
Once a month, at Third Coast Comics in the Edgewater neighborhood, the store closes for the evening and the knitting comes out. Followed by the drinks. Drink & Draw & Knitting Night is the second Thursday of each month, as it has been since Terry Gant...
Tags: Gaming, Taylor Swift, IFC (tv network), NBC (tv network), Fiction
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NU 'Grapes of Wrath' is justice delayed for composer Gordon
"The Grapes of Wrath," composer Ricky Ian Gordon and librettist Michael Korie's operatic adaptation of John Steinbeck's sprawling 1939 novel about dispossessed Oklahoma sharecroppers during the Great Depression, has enjoyed a degree of instant success...Tags: Music, The Grapes of Wrath (movie), Entertainment, Northwestern University, Music Industry
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Jayne Houdyshell, Liv Rooth To Star in Westport Shows
Hartford CourantJayne Houdyshell and Liv Rooth will head casts for the 2013 season at the Westport Country Playhouse. Twice-Tony Award-nominated Houdyshell ("Well," "Follies") will star in George Kelly's comedy "The Show-Off," directed by Nicholas Martin, The shoiw...Tags: Entertainment Events, Tony Awards, Westport Country Playhouse, George Kelly, Wicked (musical)
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William Petersen to return to Steppenwolf stage
William Petersen, the actor with longtime roots on the Chicago stage, is to appear this summer at the Steppenwolf Theatre in a two-person show about a teenager and her reculsive uncle in Costa Rica. Titled "Slowgirl" and penned by Greg Pierce, it will...
Tags: CSI (tv program), William Petersen, Arts and Culture
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'She Kills Monsters' conjures D&D cool
You'd easily think that "She Kills Monsters" the clever, funny, moving, lively and delightfully geeky standout at this year's Garage Rep at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, was entirely created by Buzz22 Chicago, a very young theater company created by...
Tags: High Fidelity (movie), Central Park, Arts and Culture
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A bit too tame a party for the likes of Pinter
Can "The Birthday Party" be celebrated in a wide-open space? It depends, surely, on the intent of the event. As the history of the 20th century teaches us, and as the Nobel laureate Harold Pinter understood at a very early age, unwanted, destructive...
Tags: Austin Pendleton, John Mahoney, Arts and Culture
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When our heroes are revealed to be flawed ...
In the movie "Flight," for which Denzel Washington scored an Oscar nomination, a brilliant pilot successfully lands a catastrophically damaged plane, saving scores of lives, even though this captain was high as he sat behind the throttle. To some degree,...Tags: Lance Armstrong, Air and Space Accidents, Movies, Entertainment, John Gatins
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Brand new way to look at love and addiction
When the Steppenwolf Theatre Company announced its production of "The Motherf***er with the Hat," it sure sounded very much like a reprise of the 2011 Broadway production. The director, ensemble member Anna D. Shapiro, was to be the same. Todd Rosenthal's...
Tags: Addiction, John Ortiz, Chris Rock, Arts and Culture
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Mary Schmich: A book, a song, a poem among my favorite things
Here's one of my occasional lists of nine things I've liked lately. 1. "Dear Life" by Alice Munro. If I had to name a favorite writer, Munro would be it. Widely revered as the living queen of the short story, she's 81 now. This collection, her most...
Tags: Music, Rachel McAdams, Entertainment, Poetry, Netflix Inc.
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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: Entertainment Events, To Kill a Mockingbird (movie), Entertainment, Music Theater, New York City
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Tony-winning set designer Todd Rosenthal wows again at Steppenwolf
"Whoa." That's what the guy who sat behind me said as I settled into a matinee performance of "The Motherf***er With the Hat" at the Steppenwolf Theatre recently: "Whoa, will you look at that? That is something. That is large. I wonder what that'll do?...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Scott Rudin, Entertainment, The Brady Bunch (tv program), Willem Dafoe
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In 'Infernal Comedy,' a Chicago role for John Malkovich
John Malkovich is performing in Chicago this weekend for the first time in five years. But the formidable and distinctive actor is not appearing at Steppenwolf Theatre, where of course he remains an ensemble member, but at Symphony Center in downtown...
Tags: Entertainment, Prisons, Austin Pendleton, Murder, Celebrities
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