The Vagina Monologues, which has been running at the Apollo Theater since the fall of 2000, recently welcomed Marcia Wallace (better known as Carol from The Bob Newhart Show) to its summer lineup. Previous Chicago casts have included Erin Moran (Happy Days), Loretta Swit (M*A*S*H), Kim Fields (The Facts of Life), Dawn Wells (Gilligan’s Island), […]
Author Archives: Eric Spitznagel
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Par for the Corpse
Miniature golf in the basement of a funeral home? Sounds grim, but the kids think it’s a scream.
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On Stage: Israeli improv proves terror doesn’t have to bomb
Last December, when Alon Margalit called Jonathan Pitts, the cofounder and executive producer of the Chicago Improv Festival, he casually mentioned that earlier that day a suicide bomber had killed 15 passengers on a public bus in Haifa. The day before, said Margalit, who’s a member of a Tel Aviv improv ensemble called Lo Roim […]
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On Stage: a comedy dream team
“A good comedy team is all about learning to compromise,” says Joe Dempsey, a hint of sadness in his voice. “You may fight, you may bicker, you may have your clashes of ego. But in the end you find a way to reconcile your differences, because the show must go on.” Dempsey and Jeff Rogers […]
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On Stage: new fat dogs of the avant-garde
Fans of international theater are sure to be delighted by Klown: Prick Us and We’ll Burst, the American premiere by the German satirical theater troupe Die Hanswurste (literally translated “the blood sausages”). The show, which opens this weekend at the Chicago Actors Ensemble, is a retrospective of the troupe’s best work from the last ten […]