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This weekend, check out these two outstanding examples of the musical genre and two that delve into our passion for sports.

In our conversation yesterday about My Kind of Town, Steve Edwards raised the question why the staged version of Chicago’s police torture scandal affected audiences so much more, and more viscerally, than written accounts of the scandal.  There’s the physical presence of theater, of c

WBEZ Dueling Critics Jonathan Abarbanel and Kelly Kleiman tell Eight Forty-Eight about the building boom underway in Chicago's theater district.

The Dueling Critics, Kelly Kleiman and Jonathan Abrabanel, joined Eight Forty-Eight to discuss the departure of Timothy Douglas as artistic director of Chicago's Remy Bumppo Theatre Company after less than a year on the job.

Believe it or not, every theater company in Chicago was not doing a holiday play--but many were. Now some of the productions are like the holidays themselves--filled with promise and anticipation, only to make theatergoers wish it was January already!

To Peer Gynt, the world is his for the taking. He fancies himself a brilliant, charming rogue and a self-made man. In reality, he is selfish, egotistical and uses others for his own gain.

The holiday season generally comes along with a nice big helping of schmaltzy sentiment on the side; It’s A Wonderful Life anyone? But at the risk of sounding corny, there is a local story that lets its audience believe dreams really can come true.