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Chicago Fire: The Music that Shaped the Chi

Brush up on a little Chicago Hip Hop history to help round out the setting of Loy A. Webb's The Light, courtesy of PCS Literary Manager and Dramaturg Kamilah Bush.

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Chicago Music History

A  history of music in Chicago from Dixieland, to Blues, to Hip Hop. 

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#MeToo

The origins of the #MeToo movement and its connection to Hip Hop.

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A Synopsis of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee

Beware spoilers! An act-by-act description of the play.

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Notable events of the 1960s

A bulleted list of important events of the 1960s by year.

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Edward Albee: An Abbreviated Biography

A brief biography of the celebrated playwright of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, including a list of career works.

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Albee's Absurdity

PCS Literary Manager and Dramaturg Kamilah Bush touches on the Absurdist movement of the mid-twentieth century, and how its "confrontation of self" informs the existential reckonings in Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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A Conversation with Mrs. Harrison Playwright R. Eric Thomas

PCS Literary Manager and Mrs. Harrison Dramaturg Kamilah Bush talked to the show's writer, R. Eric Thomas, about the "universe of possibility" inherent in storytelling, and turning generational trauma into generational hope.

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Reviews of Mrs. Harrison

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Reviews of The Importance of Being Earnest

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Reviews of Chris Grace: As Scarlett Johansson

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Reviews of The Brothers Size

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