Shpiel Performing Identity produces this eight-day event as part of the Alliance for Jewish Theatre Conference.
Tag: Ben Hecht
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If journalists know how to do anything, it’s salute our own
Contrary to Ben Hect’s immortal assertions
Posted inArts & Culture
The migration of the hipster
The migration of the hipster: A Chicago history, 1898-present
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Assembling a picture of Chicago, neighborhood by neighborhood
Two local bloggers have organized a reading celebrating Chicago’s neighborhoods.
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Not quite Detroit—Chicago as described by a New York Times book critic
Rachel Shteir’s review of three Chicago books is a little over the top.
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Cosmopolis and other talking books
Thinking about movies where everyone speaks the same way in light of David Cronenberg’s faithful Don DeLillo adaptation
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Leaving my Reader office for the last time
Leaving my Reader office for the last time
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TimeLine Theatre Company Brings Back the Golden Age of Ink
Chicago’s an eight-newspaper town in Hecht and MacArthur’s The Front Page.
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That was now and this is then
A reminiscence as powerful as Roger Ebert’s can only be written about a vanished era.
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The return of Liz Armstrong Sucks threads and my plea for sanity
My periodic defense of Liz Armstrong and a jeremiad about literary journalism.
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1,001 Afternoons in Chicago
Anyone who missed Prop Theatre Group’s rambunctious 1997 salute to Chicago newspaper legend Ben Hecht gets a second chance with this rich revival. Based on the daily columns Hecht churned out from 1921 to 1923, this sprawling 150-minute work is rife with the colorful slang of the time, though some things haven’t changed: innocent people […]