Steppenwolf’s latest is a darkly funny, compellingly strange indictment of just about everyone.
Tag: August: Osage County
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Rauner vetoes school funding bill, and other Chicago news
Also, the number of homicides in Chicago in 2017 is now on pace to exceed 2016 levels.
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Tracy Letts and Louis C.K.: Peas in a pod?
The bad-boy playwright is true to himself in Steppenwolf’s Linda Vista.
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Tracy Letts’s rebellion against the Jeff Awards is suspiciously woke
What motivated the Steppenwolf playwright to give the Jeffs the cold shoulder?
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Tracy Letts and the case of the missing play
The best parts of Steppenwolf’s Mary Page Marlowe may be the ones that aren’t there.
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In Russian Transport, something viral this way comes
In Steppenwolf’s Russian Transport, a family is infected by history.
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Llewyn Davis, Outside (the Oscars)
Oscar stiffs the Coen brothers’ comedy about Greenwich Village folkies; plus a rundown of the rest of the nominees.
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An old-fashioned take on today’s armed forces, and the rest of this week’s movies
A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between January 10 and 16
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The home fires burn in August: Osage County
Meryl Streep is a fire-breathing matriarch in August: Osage County.
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Appropriate consequences at Victory Gardens
Grandpa’s secret comes out and the family melts down in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s new play.
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The mother of them all, part two: The interview with actress Deanna Dunagan continued
Part two of a conversation with actress Deanna Dunagan
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An interview with Deanna Dunagan, part one
The actress discusses her roles in August: Osage County and Other Desert Cities
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Sick with fear, and the rest of the week’s movies
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s, you know, issue
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Tracy Letts on The Interview Show
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright/actor Tracy Letts stopped by “The Interview Show,” hosted by Mark Bazer, to discuss “August: Osage County,” Steppenwolf Theatre, the Festivus episode of “Seinfeld” and Profiles Theatre’s revival of his first play, “Killer Joe,” now playing at the Royal George Theatre in Chicago. Watch below: (The next “Interview Show” is July 9, at […]