CHICAGO – YIPPIE! It’s back, in the neighborhood of its roots. YippieFest 2023 will be August 4th-6th in the Lakeview/Buena Park venue of PRIDE ARTS, 4139 North Broadway in Chicago. The space is less than a half mile from the former Mary-Arrchie Theatre, whose “Abbie Hoffman Festival” was the template for the three-day performance celebration. YippieFest currently has slots for theater acts, including one-act plays, monologue, sketch, improv, vaudeville and other stage performance arts. Artists get free admission to the rest of the festival, so click YiPPIE FEST 2023 to sign up.
On-Air Film Review: Through Thin and Thinner! Review of ‘Together’



CHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on August 26th, 2021, reviewing the new film “Together” – a pandemic-era relationship story – In theaters on August 27th, 2021.
![]() Rating: 3.5/5.0 |
This is a three person drama, taking place in a British flat during the pandemic, from January of 2020 through March of 2021. It involves He (James McAvoy) and She (Sharon Horgan of the TV series “Catastrophe”) and their ten-year-old son Artie (Samuel Logan). He and She talk to the camera, as if being profiled for a documentary, by way of group therapy, and as the months go by we see their shaky relationship go through many changes.


Together
Photo credit: Bleecker Street Media

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