Chris Jones
Editorial Page Editor and Critic at Chicago Tribune
Theater Critic at New York Daily News
Editorial page editor/critic @ChicagoTribune & theater critic @NYDailyNews. Director, National Critics Institute. Author, Rise Up! (Bloomsbury) PhD Ohio State.
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1 day ago |
chicagotribune.com | Chris Jones
If you view all of those Silicon Valley kids messing around with artificial intelligence for fun and profit as kindling flames that will not only disrupt but destroy the human race, then “The Antiquities” is your kind of show.
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5 days ago |
chicagotribune.com | Chris Jones
A pervasive undercurrent of anxiety runs through the new Second City mainstage revue as a mostly fresh cast tries to figure out the role of progressive sketch comedy within the aggressive landscape of Trump 2.0. A version of this uncertainty has afflicted this once supremely confident comedy institution since Trump 1.0, of course, but it has only intensified.
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6 days ago |
chicagotribune.com | Chris Jones
No American theater professional has had a spring like David Cromer, the longtime Chicago theater director who opened two Broadway shows in New York in a matter of weeks, “Good Night, and Good Luck” starring George Clooney and based on the 2005 movie, and the musical “Dead Outlaw.”Both have been successes.
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1 week ago |
chicagotribune.com | Chris Jones
Many of Charles Dickens novels — I am thinking “David Copperfield,” “Oliver Twist” and “A Christmas Carol” — are beloved for their clarity, unity and timeless accessibility. “A Tale of Two Cities” is not in that category. That Dickensian creation has, for my money, the greatest opening sentence ever.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Chris Jones
Many of Charles Dickens novels — I am thinking “David Copperfield,” “Oliver Twist” and “A Christmas Carol” — are beloved for their clarity, unity and timeless accessibility. “A Tale of Two Cities” is not in that category. That Dickensian creation has, for my money, the greatest opening sentence ever.
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“Purpose,” a play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins that was commissioned by Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company, has won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for drama, the Pulitzer Board announced Monday afternoon.
