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Featured stories
- Black Box Acting Studio launches the Academy conservatory
  
  The popular actor training studio run by Audrey Francis and Laura Hooper announces a new nine-month, full-time program.
  
  The popular actor training studio run by Audrey…
- Randall Colburn’s Hesperia gets a second production at Writers’ Theatre
  
  The Glencoe theater picks up Colburn’s play less than two years after its initial outing at Ravenswood’s tiny Right Brain Project.
  
  The Glencoe theater picks up Colburn’s play less…
New reviews
- Disgraced
  
  Ayad Akhtar’s intelligent, volatile drama finds no easy answers to questions of cultural assimilation and appropriation.
  
  Ayad Akhtar’s intelligent, volatile drama finds no…
- Time Stands Still
  
  A conflict photographer faces the war at home in Donald Margulies’s drama.
  
  A conflict photographer faces the war at home in…
- Death and Harry Houdini
  
  The House makes magic with a remount of the show that first established its aesthetic.
  
  The House makes magic with a remount of the show…
- Enron
  
  Underneath its flash and fancy, Lucy Prebble’s recounting of the Enron scandal is a lumbering, oversimplified lesson in economics.
  
  Underneath its flash and fancy, Lucy Prebble’s…
Critics' picks
- Invisible Man
  
  Court’s adaptation of Ralph Ellison’s seminal novel is stunningly successful.
  
  Court’s adaptation of Ralph Ellison’s seminal novel…
- Love and Money
  
  Dennis Kelly’s bracing 2006 piece about affluence and empathy feels even more timely now.
  
  Dennis Kelly’s bracing 2006 piece about affluence…
- I Am Saying This Right Now
  
  The Plagiarists’ collage of sounds and vignettes is a memory play in the truest sense.
  
  The Plagiarists’ collage of sounds and vignettes is…

Black Box Acting Studio launches the Academy conservatory

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Estelle at Double Door
Concert photos

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Stream the new Unicycle Loves You
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Joffrey Ballet, Thodos Dance Chicago documentaries debut this month
Chicago dance hits big and small screens in February.

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Garfunkel & Oates
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Feder: A new weekday afternoon talk show will mark the return of Steve Edwards to full-time hosting duties on Chicago Public Radio.

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