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Mar 19, 2025 | 
christianbook.com | Robert Jeffress |Angela Hunt |David Jeremiah |Albert Williams
Jesus Revealed in the End Times: Hope for Today from the One Who Holds Our Future Baker Books / 2025 / HardcoverBuy 25 or more for $16.99 each. Buy 100 or more for $15.62 each.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
chicagoreader.com | Albert Williams
Jon M. Chu’s film version of the 2003 (and still running) Broadway hit is a magnificent synthesis of movie musical and fantasy epic, one of those rare films that truly delivers “all-ages entertainment.” It’s smart, sweet, and sassy in equal measure, with eye-popping special effects, lustrously colorful cinematography and production design, dynamic vocals and dancing, and—best of all—emotionally intimate storytelling.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
chicagoreader.com | Albert Williams
On July 27, 1982, as editor of Chicago GayLife newspaper, I attended a meeting in Washington, D.C., between government health officials and a group of LGBTQ+ activists and leaders of organizations representing hemophiliacs.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
chicagoreader.com | Albert Williams
Amy Crider’s entertaining and stimulating new play Wells and Welles, receiving its world premiere in a very well-acted non-Equity production by Lucid Theater at the City Lit Theater space in Edgewater, is based on a true event—a joint appearance by 74-year-old Herbert George Wells and 25-year-old Orson Welles on San Antonio’s KTSA radio station on October 28, 1940.
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Dec 7, 2023 | 
chicagoreader.com | Albert Williams
Hell in a Handbag Productions serves up a hefty helping of Christmas camp in this new episode of its “The Golden Girls: Lost Episodes” franchise, which purports to feature never-broadcast episodes of The Golden Girls, the 1985-1992 NBC sitcom about four over-60 women—three widows and a divorcee—sharing a home in Miami.
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Nov 3, 2023 | 
chicagoreader.com | Albert Williams
City Lit Theater’s stage adaptation of Davis Grubb’s 1953 novel has a dark, homespun, campfire-tale feel that suits the folksy tone of its suspenseful Southern Gothic narrative. The Night of the Hunter recounts the ordeal of two runaway children—ten-year-old John Harper and his five-year-old sister, Pearl—being pursued by a vicious killer in rural 1930s West Virginia. The homeless children are the guardians of a terrible secret: the whereabouts of $10,000 that their father stole in a bank robbery.
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Sep 20, 2023 | 
chicagoreader.com | Albert Williams
Because Chicago is so well known for its “Magnificent Mile” retail district—North Michigan Avenue between Oak Street and the Chicago River—it’s all too easy to overlook, or take for granted, the importance of what can be called the city’s cultural corridor: Michigan Avenue stretching south from the river to Roosevelt Road.
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Aug 11, 2023 | 
chicagoreader.com | Albert Williams
Norwegian filmmaker André Øvredal (Trollhunter) directed this predictable, gruesome, but unscary horror tale, which is inspired by chapter seven of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, known as “The Captain’s Log.” The comic-book-shallow narrative recounts the ill-fated, blood-drenched journey of a Russian merchant ship, the Demeter, as it sails from Bulgaria to England, where it crashes on the coast one dark and stormy night in August 1897.
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Jul 7, 2023 | 
chicagoreader.com | Albert Williams
“It’s our time, breathe it in: / Worlds to change and worlds to win. / Our turn coming through, / Me and you, pal, / Me and you!” So proclaims “Our Time,” the soaring choral finale of Stephen Sondheim’s 1981 musical Merrily We Roll Along, now playing in an excellent new production by the Blank Theatre Company.
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Jun 20, 2023 | 
chicagoreader.com | Albert Williams
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, the fifth and final installment in the series that launched in 1981 with Raiders of the Lost Ark, picks up 12 years after the end of its immediate predecessor, 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. That film ended with archaeologist-adventurer Henry “Indiana” Jones (Harrison Ford) happily reunited with his estranged lover Marion (played by Ford’s Raiders costar Karen Allen).
