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This Monstrous 165-Inch Display Helps Deliver the Message

Here's how the MAXHUB GV27 series makes sales and training sessions more engaging.

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Ghada Amer’s provocative embroidered texts speak of feminism and activism

Ghada Amer explores the power of words in ‘QR Codes Revisited – London’ at Goodman Gallery in London’s Mayfair

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Six plays by teens take on gun violence at Goodman, other U.S. theaters

A year before the election, dozens of performing arts troupes will participate in the Monday initiative called ‘ENOUGH!’

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Goodman Theatre’s ‘The Who’s Tommy’ is heading to Broadway

The show is set to open in March 2024 at New York’s Nederlander Theatre. The musical, based on Pete Townshend’s 1969 rock opera album, enjoyed an eight-week, sold-out run in a “re-imagined” world premiere production earlier this year.

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For lucha libre diehards and newbies alike, Goodman Theatre’s multifaceted ‘Lucha Teotl’ is irresistible

The 100-minute odyssey through the Mexico-born sport/theater hybrid starring masked fighters with torrid backstories and bone-crunching moves, merges sport with theater with fabulous impact.

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‘The Who’s Tommy’ leads the pack at Equity Jeff Awards ceremony

The critically acclaimed, revamped production of the musical propelled the Goodman’s 12 wins at the awards recognizing excellence in Chicago Equity theater productions. Teatro Vista’s “Dream King” earned eight awards.

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Laughter is the best medicine as family drama unfolds, secrets emerge in glorious ‘Nacirema Society’

Pearl Cleage’s exuberant drama, now at the Goodman Theatre, is a nuanced, fraught and incongruously hilarious exploration of class privilege, generational wealth and family betrayal.

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Things to do in Chicago Sept. 14-20: The Mix

Karol G at Soldier Field, the Goodman Theatre celebrates Pearl Cleage, and “The Lehman Trilogy” at the Broadway Playhouse are among the week’s highlights.

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Goodman Theatre celebrating Pearl Cleage with ‘The Nacirema Society’ and citywide festival of works

“The idea that I’ve managed to do enough work that means something to people, that they would choose to do this in a great theater town like Chicago is really wonderful,” the playwright says.

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‘Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil’ musical set for Goodman Theater world premiere

The stage musical, set for the summer of 2024, will feature a book by Taylor Mac, directed by Rob Ashford.

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Lookingglass and other theaters are in crisis. For the show to go on, City Hall must lead the way.

Theaters throughout Chicago are as critical to the city as sports, politics, restaurants and architecture. Mayor Brandon Johnson and the city’s movers and shakers have work to make sure they thrive.

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Pinball wizardry: ‘Tommy’ dazzles at every turn in breakneck reboot at Goodman Theatre

Now in a major “re-imagined” reboot, “Tommy” remains the pulsing roller coaster of a show it was when it premiered in 1992.

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Creatives shine new light on ‘The Who’s Tommy’ in Goodman Theatre world premiere

Pete Townshend and Des McAnuff have reimagined their classic stage musical for a new age.

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Robert Falls leaves an indelible legacy at the Goodman Theatre as his final season ends

Under his leadership, the Goodman produced more than 150 world premieres. It also sent more than two dozen shows to Broadway, where they garnered 22 Tony Awards.

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Looming closure of Villa Maria Estate worries employees

Employees concerned as wine brand's new owners look to outsource operations.

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Goodman’s ‘The Cherry Orchard’ is superbly cast and staged in sublime production by Robert Falls

Anton Chekhov’s final work is both comedy and tragedy, both cruel and compassionate, and an emotional journey worth taking.

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Susan Booth ushers in a new day with a new season at the Goodman Theatre

Artistic director — the first woman to lead the 98-year-old theater — revealed an eclectic lineup for 2023-24.

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World premiere play spotlights US Assyrian diaspora community

Martin Yousif Zebari unveils his first play, a look at family dynamics in the aftermath of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq.

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Frank Galati, pioneering Chicago theater artist and Oscar nominee, is dead at 79

CHICAGO — Frank Galati, a pivotal figure over five decades in Chicago theater, a Tony Award-winning Broadway director, a beloved longtime teacher at Northwestern University, an ensemble member at both the Steppenwolf and Goodman theaters and a pioneer in the adaptation of novels and other narrative sources into exciting drama,…

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Frank Galati, Tony Award-winning Chicago director, writer, actor, dead at 79

An icon in Chicago theater, he was best-known for his work at Steppenwolf Theatre and the Goodman Theater.

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George Lois: Ad man and creator of groundbreaking Esquire covers

The art director’s bold creations brought Sixties counterculture to newsstands across the US

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The hope and despair of Americans — and America’s politics — seek refuge in mighty ‘Swing State’

Although there is very little actual politics in this play, playwright Rebecca Gilman does clearly delineate two different perspectives on the world reflective, to a degree, of our national divide.

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Rebecca Gilman achieves milestone at Goodman Theatre with politically charged ‘Swing State’

In mere synopsis, “Swing State” sounds — as do many of Gilman’s plays when abbreviated to plot points — heavy, potentially grim and more about provoking thought than providing entertainment.

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Marissa Lynn Ford named new executive director of League of Chicago Theatres

Ford arrives at the League from her most recent post as associate managing director of the Goodman Theatre.

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Goodman’s new artistic director will be first woman to lead the theater

Susan V. Booth of Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre will succeed Robert Falls, bringing her back to the Chicago company where she worked in the ’90s.

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