Over the years WGN radio commentator Roy Leonard earned the appreciation of a lot of artists. His reviews and interviews brought their work to the attention of an ultramainstream audience, […]
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Chicago Improv Festival
Improvisational comedy–developed in Chicago in the 30s and 40s by Viola Spolin and popularized in the 50s and 60s by her son, Second City cofounder Paul Sills, among others–experienced a […]
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“The Return of Charley Chase” and “Highlighting Max Davidson”
Charley Chase and Max Davidson, who starred in silent comedies produced by Hal Roach, lack the formal precision of Buster Keaton or the humanism of Charlie Chaplin, but they’ll remind […]