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Siah Berlatsky just graduated this month from ChiArts, but though she’s taking a gap year before college, the 18-year-old playwright-director-actor isn’t letting the grass grow under…
Every piece of art has a timeliness. When it is born and put into the world, it becomes part of its identity for better or worse.…
I’m taking a week off, so this week’s Savage Love is a reprint of a column that was originally published on January 13, 2016. I hope…
The Chicago premiere of British playwright Chris Woodley’s Tommy on Top, now playing at Pride Arts Center, is a witty farce that elevates crucial questions about…
On the wall of the big-box retail warehouse that forms the setting for Eboni Booth’s Paris, now in a midwest premiere at Steep Theatre under Jonathan…
We all remember where we were when we saw Cruel Intentions. Its iconic soundtrack (anyone else melt to Counting Crows’ “Colorblind”?) and “shameless perversity” (thank you,…
My daughter tells me she likes the 1989 movie version of Steel Magnolias because you can have it running in the background while you do other…
If I were forced to subscribe to any wild theory circulating on the Internet right now (we won’t say the c-word), it wouldn’t be about lizard…
Paul Cézanne’s Portrait de l’artiste au fond rose was probably created in 1875. It’s on loan to the Art Institute of Chicago from the Musée d’Orsay…
What if you had the ability to create your own world from the ground up? What rules would you create? What type of environment would you…