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Gilad Atzmon is an exile, a Jewish refugee, compelled to flee his homeland for friendlier terrain. He emigrated not from Europe or the American South, but from Israel itself. That’s what compulsory ...

A medieval doctor asks his employer and patron to describe “Thousand and One Nights.” “You’d have to read it, I suppose,” the vizier chuckles. “It spins into more and more stories, until you feel like ...

There are so many positive elements to Joel Drake Johnson’s new play “A Guide for the Perplexed” — receiving its premiere at Victory Gardens in Chicago — that it’s nearly possible to overlook its ...