Art and play have a long and friendly relationship. The surrealists loved to play games; the French novelist Georges Perec wrote his novel A Void entirely without the letter E. Games appeal to me as ...

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In the joke-off, everyone had to find new, knee-slapping ways to make fun of a real-life headline about a Tennessee woman who broke a hospital record by giving birth to a 13 pound baby. Poehler ...

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 ...