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REVIEW: ‘Checking Boxes’ by About Face for Night Out in the Parks ★★½

May 9, 2019 at 5:11 a.m.

Talk about timeliness. With the issue of unaccompanied children from Central America entering the United States heating up, About Face Theatre Youth Ensemble's "Checking Boxes," presented through the Chicago Park...

REVIEW: “Burn the Black Dog” by Wayward Productions ★★★

May 9, 2019 at 5:11 a.m.

"Welcome to St. Cyprian's. Here you'll make a lot of friends," chant the students and faculty near the beginning of Natalie DiCristofano's "Burn the Black Dog." But as you wander...

REVIEW: “Lady Mechanics” at the Annoyance ★★½

June 17, 2018 at 11:55 a.m.

Female empowerment is the name of the game in "Lady Mechanics," a shaggy but good-hearted musical at Annoyance. Featuring a book by Michelle Renee Thompson and Wolfgang Stein, with a...

Margaret Hicks explains some the details about the architecture of City Hall during the Binoculars Tour around Chicago.

New Binoculars Tour takes in gargoyles, sky-high details of Loop

June 17, 2018 at 12:16 p.m.

Margaret Hicks has a simple message for visitors to Chicago and natives alike: Look up. Better yet, look up and look closely at all the rich ornamentation adorning so many...

New Binoculars Tour takes in gargoyles, sky-high details of Loop

December 23, 2018 at 6:30 p.m.

Margaret Hicks has a simple message for visitors to Chicago and natives alike: Look up. Better yet, look up and look closely at all the rich ornamentation adorning so many...

Matthew Coward, 6, of Elmhurst, hangs on the cannon barrel of an M60 Patton tank. The tanks are on the grounds at the First Division Museum at Cantigny Park.

Telling the First Division story in Cantigny Park

June 17, 2018 at 1:08 p.m.

Chances are excellent that if you take in a parade for the Fourth of July, you'll see someone on stilts sporting the patriotic garb of Uncle Sam. Chances are equally...

REVIEW: ‘Partners’ by LiveWire Chicago ★★½

May 9, 2019 at 5:10 a.m.

Dawn Powell, the great chronicler of comedies of bad manners in Manhattan in the post-World War II era, created a character in her 1954 novel "The Wicked Pavilion" who championed...

‘Myths and Hymns’ all about the music and imagery

May 9, 2019 at 5:10 a.m.

"Myths and Hymns" Originally called "Saturn Returns," Adam Guettel's lovely 1998 song cycle, "Myths and Hymns," makes for a sturdy and intimate BoHo Theatre production under Peter Robel's direction. Guettel,...

Mobster world fits this power-mad ‘Hamlet’

May 9, 2019 at 5:10 a.m.

If you're tapping your feet impatiently awaiting the return of HBO's "Boardwalk Empire," Oak Park Festival Theatre's current production of "Hamlet" may provide some relief. Director Lavina Jadhwani's staging, adapted...

From left, Jasmin Antunez, 11, and Giselle Gamboa, 6, look at flowers behind The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.

Summer Solstice Celebration sheds light on ecological problems

June 17, 2018 at 1:38 p.m.

The summer solstice traditionally celebrates the warmth and bounty of the season on the longest day of the year. But the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum (the public exhibition arm of...

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