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VICTORY GARDENS THEATER, the wonderful performance venue located in the historic space once known as the Biograph Theater—where famed gangster John Dillinger met his immortal end—will be introducing Stacy Janiak and me as debuting playwrights, and...

Steven Soderbergh’s “The Laundromat” is a star-powered drama about a very complex issue: how the modern systems to protect wealth have left the meek farther from inheriting Earth than ever before. The issue of the Panama...

For a CBS sitcom, “The Unicorn” is surprisingly, well, surprising. First of all, there’s that title, defined here by a character as “that elusive creature that all single women are looking for,” a widower and devoted...

Ryan Murphy’s “The Politician,” his first major show at Netflix instead of FX, feels at first like a modern update of Alexander Payne’s “Election,” using high school politics to illustrate something about human nature and even...

Sid Haig (born Sidney Eddie Mosesian) was a great character actor. His generosity of spirit is apparent both on and off-screen, especially in his work as an all-purpose heavy (gang leaders and bikers a specialty). Being...

On Friday, September 27th, you are invited to attend the second Chaz & Roger Ebert Symposium at the Illinois Ballroom of the I-Hotel and Conference Center, 1900 S. First St., in Champaign, Illinois. It is a collaboration between...

The greatness of Quentin Tarantino movies is that I can watch any of them multiple times and still not be able to tell you if I like them. I long for more viewings to unlock their...

On Friday, September 27th, you are invited to attend the second Chaz & Roger Ebert Symposium at the Illinois Ballroom of the I-Hotel and Conference Center, 1900 S. First St., in Champaign, Illinois. It is a collaboration between...

Do you remember when you realized that adulthood wasn’t real? I was 21, maybe 22, and I was with a friend who was in her early 40s. I asked a question about a mutual friend and...

On Friday, September 27th, you are invited to attend the second Chaz & Roger Ebert Symposium at the Illinois Ballroom of the I-Hotel and Conference Center, 1900 S. First St., in Champaign, Illinois. It is a collaboration between...