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Thursday, May 18, 2023

Unleashed moms by Bridgette M. Redman

Mother’s Day weekend provided the perfect time to open this irreverent, boisterous look at three women’s journey from two blue lines on a pee stick to graduation day. Running at Mercury …

SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:58AM
Thursday, September 1, 2022

Disability takes center stage with Babes With Blades by Bridgette M. Redman

A man who murders children, abuses his wife, and usurps the throne, Shakespeare’s Richard III is the epitome of villainy—and usually shown as a limping hunchback othered because of his […

SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:11AM
Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song by Bridgette M. Redman

By focusing on the song rather than the man, the filmmakers create an arc that keeps viewers engaged. The post Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song appeared first on Chicago Reader.

SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:30AM
Thursday, June 23, 2022

A Black perspective on the French Revolution by Bridgette M. Redman

Sometimes to understand the present, we must look at the past.  In 2017, playwright Terry Guest grappled with how America could elect someone so outwardly racist as Donald Trump. It shocked…

SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:21PM
Thursday, June 9, 2022

All in the Gayme by Bridgette M. Redman

This June, queer youth are challenging audiences on what it means to be active in environmental justice and to participate in mutual aid activism. About Face Youth Theatre, founded in 1999, …

SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:22PM

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