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The Joy Luck Club creates a club of mothers and daughters

The Joy Luck Club, the new production at the Vintage Theatre's new home, weaves a tapestry of relationships, memories and tragedies in its depiction of Chinese and Chinese-American women.

Vintage Theatre finds a new home...in Aurora

Vintage Theatre Productions has found a new home: In April, it will move into the Dayton Street Theatre at 1468 Dayton Street in Aurora, which will be renamed Vintage Theatre. "This is an extremely exciting move for us in our tenth anniversary season," says executive producer Debbie Laureta. "Our ne ... More >>

Author Lisa See on Dreams of Joy and rooming in the Chinese countryside with Amy Tan

​Bestselling Chinese-American author Lisa See, who will read from her new book Dreams of Joy tomorrow evening at the Tattered Cover, is an extraordinary researcher: Her fierce desire to get the details right has taken her around the world, to museums and libraries, and even into the small worl ... More >>

The Kitsch Is All Right

D.C. Gallery gives a high profile to lowbrow art

White Riot

Jewish potty-mouth MC Paul Barman makes a brilliant hip-hop oddity.

Music by the Book

Life imitates art for Kathi Kamen Goldmark, who mined a novel from the rock of famous authors.

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