Best theatrical couple#
Best test of the structural soundness of audience members’ backsides#
Best theatrical mob action#
Best advice from an artistic director#
Best new off-Loop combo for dinner and a show, fringe division#
Best theatrical collaboration#
Best underground voguer and breakdancer#
Best new comedy festival#
Best comedy club located in a pizzeria#
Best storytelling series for potty humor#
Best living Vivian Maier#
Best citizen-thinker#
Best rehab of a public housing project into artists’ housing#
Best exhibit for bashing a Jeff Koons balloon dog#
Best small museum, Skokie division#
Best new video installation#
Best archival discovery#
Best business counterstrike#
Best conflict of interest#
Best secret microcinema#
Best local film company that doesn’t make films#
Best new local production (documentary)#
Best new local production (drama)#
Best second-run house#
Best creative rivalry#
Best movie theater#
Best theater company#
Best stand-up comic#
Best sketch/improv troupe#
Best venue for stand-up#
Best visual artist#
Best street artist#
Best photographer#
Best gallery#
Best actor#
Best actress#
Best stage director#
Best playwright#
Best musical#
Best play#
Best film festival#
Best film programming#
Best nonfiction writer#
Best novelist#
Best literary event#
Best dance troupe#
Best magician#
