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With a savvy sense of the moment, TimeLine has a salacious comedy about the blistering 1934 fight for California's governorship between Republican Frank Merriam and author Upton Sinclair.

What “Campaigns, Inc.” could use is a tighter focus on its central characters’ mercenary motivations.

The Windy City Smokeout, Northalsted Market Days, Out of Space and Festa Italiana are among the cool things to see and do in the week ahead.

Auroras Copley Theatre revives the coming-of-age/coming-out musical "Fun Home." In Chicago, TimeLine Theatre gears up for the upcoming election season with the new screwball comedy "Campaigns Inc." by ensemble member Will Allan.

TimeLine Theatre Company will return to its longtime home at 615 W. Wellington Avenue in Chicago’s Lakeview East neighborhood for its 26th season opener, the world premiere of Campaigns, Inc.

‘Mank’ Is Fake News About Fake News But by inventing a plot point in his biopic about Herman J. Mankiewicz, David Fincher creates an inadvertent truth about our political moment. Expand Herman J. Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman) and his assistant (Lily Collins) enjoy a beverage in ‘Mank.’ Central to the lore of classic Hollywood are tales of disconsolate screenwriters rendered cynical and self-loathing by the indignities that producers and studio moguls heaped upon them, and by thei...