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Review: Everybody to Kenmure Street
2+ hour, 13+ min ago (19+ words) Chicago Reader Screening Fri 7/24–Thu 7/30 at the Siskel Film Center...
By Hook or By Crook (2001) is a timeless trans buddy comedy
3+ week, 5+ day ago (312+ words) By Hook or By Crook (2001)98 min. Fri 6/26–Thu 7/2, Siskel Film Center Today, Dodge and Howard have cemented themselves as moving image artists, the former within the fine art world and the latter within more traditional film and television parameters. However,…...
Champions of Magic offers a family-friendly extravaganza
3+ week, 6+ day ago (263+ words) Kerry Reid (she/her) has served as the Chicago Reader’s theater and dance editor since 2019. During the 90s, Kerry lived in San Francisco and wrote for the East Bay Express and Backstage West. In addition to freelancing for the Reader starting…...
Penelope Trappes ruminates on life and death amid haunting ambience
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (110+ words) Chicago Reader The subtlest sounds can evoke the most vivid memories; blend such sounds together, and they can become even more powerful. That’s a through line in the work of UK-based Australian vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and sound designer Penelope Trappes. Her…...
Review: The Sheep Detectives
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (64+ words) Chicago Reader Most of all, it’s wonderful pro-sheep propaganda, proving more potent than endless nights of insomnia ever could. Next time you call someone a sheep, just remember: You might be paying them a huge compliment. PG, 109 min. Wide release…...
Review: LifeHack
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (63+ words) Chicago Reader Add to this the fact that, as it goes on, LifeHack becomes increasingly bogged down by its weak and overly familiar attempts at emotional drama, and you’ve got a film that feels like a swing and miss. 96 min....
Scaramouche is a fun theatrical fandango
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (235+ words) Kerry Reid (she/her) has served as the Chicago Reader’s theater and dance editor since 2019. During the 90s, Kerry lived in San Francisco and wrote for the East Bay Express and Backstage West. In addition to freelancing for the Reader starting…...
Laughing into the abyss
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (119+ words) Kerry Reid (she/her) has served as the Chicago Reader’s theater and dance editor since 2019. During the 90s, Kerry lived in San Francisco and wrote for the East Bay Express and Backstage West. In addition to freelancing for the Reader starting…...
Dance Mania Legends Year 2 celebrates the past and future of ghetto house, footwork, and juke
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (132+ words) Leor Galil (he/him) started writing for the Chicago Reader in 2010. He joined the staff in 2012 and became a senior staff writer in 2020. Galil mainly covers music, with a singular focus on Chicago artists, scenes, and phenomena. He's won a…...
Gift Theatre's Ten 25th! celebrates the art of the short play
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (1106+ words) Kerry Reid (she/her) has been the theater and dance editor at the Chicago Reader since 2019. Graduating from Columbia College in 1987, she worked with several off-Loop theater companies before beginning her arts journalism career by writing pro bono for Streetwise....