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Avery Preesman’s diptych “Echo”: On the left, lines of micro wax run with Cartesian precision across a large canvas panel, and the whole piece is painted a single flat sterling. On the right, a much smaller square of concrete has been debossed with a sort of rough crosshatching. Deep grooves radiate from one corner of...

Content Warning: drug use, graphic descriptions of violence and abortion In a make-believe tree house in a real-life-used-to-be-church on the North Side of Chicago, Steep Theatre’s production of Alexis Scheer’s Our Dear Dead Drug Lord is not for the faint of heart. The play, which premiered in 2021 to much acclaim, depicts four teenage girls in...

When I first took the pitch for this article—to write about my takeaways from a classic holiday movie—I was determined to write a passionate defense of Frank Capra’s 1946 classic It’s a Wonderful Life. Then two things happened. First, I talked to almost everyone I know at this school, and an alarmingly small number of...

At The Edge Theater, north of Chicago, AstonRep Theatre Company opened their 15th and final season with a searing and beautiful production of Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Buried Child. Written in 1978, the play depicts the disillusionment that accompanies 22-year-old Vince’s return to his family’s Midwestern home. There, he finds his petulant grandfather, Dodge; nostalgic...