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<em>The Brother/Sister Plays</em>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_09
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Brother/Sister Plays
@ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
A breakthrough theatrical event: three interconnected plays by a brilliant new American voice. Grand in scope, yet intimate and heartfelt, Tarell...  View details »
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Richard Rezac
Month_02 Tuesday Day_09
Art
Richard Rezac
@ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Precisely composed and impeccably fabricated, Richard Rezac's sculptures feel a bit like fragments of a high-end manufacturing process, re-combined by machinery...  View details »
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<em>Broken Embraces</em>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_09
Film
Broken Embraces
@ Various Chicago theaters
A fictional cinematic biography that weaves fantasy with universal themes of identity and alienation, Broken Embraces might be Pedro Almodóvar's most...  View details »
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<em>The Year of Magical Thinking</em>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_09
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Year of Magical Thinking
@ Court Theatre at the University of Chicago
Joan Didion is one of our most acclaimed essayists, and her incisive observational gifts and fluid style drive The Year of...  View details »
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Anna Shteynshleyger
Month_02 Tuesday Day_09
Art
Anna Shteynshleyger
@ Renaissance Society
The Renaissance Society mounts a solo exhibition of photographs by Chicago-based artist Anna Shteynshleyger (b. 1977). Trained at Yale, Shteynshleyger belongs...  View details »
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<em>August: Osage County</em>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_09
Performing Arts: Theatre
August: Osage County
@ Cadillac Palace Theater
If you find live theatre less exciting than movies or television, this is the show for you. Tracy Letts' hugely entertaining...  View details »
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The 21st Annual Rhinofest
Month_02 Tuesday Day_09
Performing Arts: Theatre
Rhinofest
@ Prop Thtr
For the next month, Prop Thtr is the place to be in Chicago for absurdly original theater, avant-garde performance art, and...  View details »
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<em>The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus</em>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_09
Film
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
@ Music Box Theatre
Terry Gilliam's visually rich follow-up to such cult gems as Brazil (1985), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), and Fear and...  View details »
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<em>Actions: What You Can Do With the City</em>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_09
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Actions: What You Can Do With the City
@ Graham Foundation
We all know city life doesn't have to mean swimming a sea of concrete, braving traffic, and fighting off urban alienation,...  View details »
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<em>Private Lives</em>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_09
Performing Arts: Theatre
Private Lives
@ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
At one point in Noël Coward's Private Lives, Amanda — half of a divorced socialite couple who rekindle their romance (and...  View details »
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<em>Touch with Your Eyes</em>: Recent Work by Angel Otero
Month_02 Tuesday Day_09
Art
Angel Otero
@ Chicago Cultural Center
These aren't your grandma's still-life paintings, even if the artist is inspired by memories of his own grandma's house in Puerto...  View details »
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<em>Hughie</em> and <em>Krapp's Last Tape</em>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_09
Performing Arts: Theatre
Hughie and Krapp's Last Tape
@ The Goodman Theatre
From time to time a director and an actor so inspire each other that they build an enduring artistic partnership: Jimmy...  View details »
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<em>The White Ribbon</em>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_09
Film
The White Ribbon
@ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
In Michael Haneke's latest film, a series of mysterious acts of violence disturbs a small, puritanical Northern German village on the...  View details »
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<em>Beeswax</em> (2009)
Month_02 Tuesday Day_09
Film
Beeswax
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
Despite some guarded comparisons to Eric Rohmer and Mike Leigh, the mumblecore movement didn't seem to have legs. Too often, the...  View details »
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Laura Letinsky: <em>The Dog and The Wolf</em>
Month_02 Tuesday Day_09
Art
Laura Letinsky
@ Monique Meloche
Artist Laura Letinsky's lush photographs, rife with allusions to Dutch still lifes, are meditations on the detritus of our lives. Whether...  View details »
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