Lewis Lazare takes his act elsewhere.
Author Archives: Lewis Lazare
French Twist/CSO’s Risky Business/Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One
The creators of the ultracool Blackbird have a warmer restaurant in mind.
Rush Little Poor Boys/Hot Tips?/The Next Century/Return of the Vagina
Michael Cullen is going Cajun, and he’s taking Sheila Henaghan and a new Platt with him.
Tavern on the Green/Next Cutback/Goodbye to “Broadway”
North Pond Cafe’s Richard Mott scores another prime park location.
The Big Picture
Was Ed Burgess’s art really too hot for Bailiwich patrons to handle? Or was teh dispute over lobby art just a symptom of deeper problems as the theater?
Phantom Opera/There’s Gold in Them Thar Vaginas
Paul Williams’s “Butterfly” crashes to earth.
Joffrey Jumps Ship/Photo Finish/Executive Search/Royal George Sold–Sort Of
Will the Joffrey Ballet’s withdrawal from the Music and Dance Theater Chicago bring the troubled project to its knees?
Growing Pains/Six-Figure Symphony
Growing Pains Founded in 1974, Victory Gardens Theater has earned an international reputation for its long-standing commitment to new plays, many of them written by the company’s resident playwrights. But the risky business of producing untested work has cost the company the kind of large-scale growth that turned Steppenwolf and the Goodman into local institutions. […]
Half Empty or Half Full/They Do Not Like It, Sam I Am/Behind the Red Curtain
Their show’s a critical flop, but producer Philip Faversham, director Joanna Settle, and playwright Hurt McDermott hope to pull a rabbit out of their hat.
Dramatic Pause/Erkert’s Exit/One Snappy Comeback
She came, she danced, she made a name for herself: Jan Erkert disbands her company and goes solo.
Positive Revues/Rising in the East/Jim Hirsch Pops Up Downtown
Independent producer Rodney Lewis has another gospel show ready to hit the road–but will he make it to the promised land?
Buff Bods Do Boffo Biz/Fancy Footwork/Mutating Management
Buff Bods Do Boffo Biz For David Dillon the party never ends. In 1992 the director accepted an invitation to stage a late-night show for Bailiwick Repertory. He wanted to do an uplifting play about gay men, but over the next two weeks he read 40 scripts without finding one. “Everything I looked at seemed […]
Comeback Kids/All About Eve
After a devastating run-in with the city, Stage Left bounces back with the installation of Jessi Hill at the helm.
Quest for Fire/Coming Into the Black
Incoming Hubbard Street artistic director Jim Vincent is expected to kick the dance company into high gear.
Sound Adaptation/Lost in Translation/Potbelly Expanding
Sound Adaptation For the past four years Karen Bauman has been a contract administrator in the legal department at Harpo Productions, Inc., securing the rights to materials used on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Working for the city’s most prominent entertainer has given her considerable experience behind the scenes, but now Bauman has produced a show […]