Personal stories become fodder for improv scenes in this week’s best bet. Plus: New Millennium’s death by thee and thou
Tag: Chicago Dramatists
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American Hero, Into the Empty Sky, and eight more new theater reviews
“Sandwich artists” go rogue and nameless women go nowhere in two of this week’s notable stage shows.
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Little Shop of Horrors, Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf, and ten more new stage shows
A monstrous revival and a collaboration between Writers Theatre and Second City are among this week’s theater and performance best bets.
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Steppenwolf’s The Flick, BoHo Theatre’s Fugitive Songs, and 13 more new stage shows
Fifteen new reviews of stage shows including limited runs of Cabaret and the one-man show Sancho: An Act of Remembrance.
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Chicago theater was true to our times in 2015
Theater Wit’s Bad Jews and the Goodman’s Stop. Reset. are among our senior theater critic’s favorites of the year.
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Chicago Theater Memorial Bike Ride honors theater professionals lost too soon
The Chicago Theater Memorial Bike Ride commemorates theater professionals who have recently passed.
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Love and humor trumped loss at a memorial for Chicago Dramatists’ Russ Tutterow
As one friend put it, the world without Tutterow “will be a world less loving, less jovial, with fewer bawdy jokes.”
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Friends and colleagues remember Chicago Dramatists’ Russ Tutterow on July 13
A memorial for longtime Chicago Dramatists’ leader Russ Tutterow is set for July 13 at the Goodman Theatre.
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RIP Russ Tutterow, Chicago Dramatists’ longtime creative director
His colleagues react to the news.
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Chicago Commercial Collective hits the road
Chicago Commercial Collective is booking Midwest college tours for five off-Loop theater productions.
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The Chicago Commercial Collective wants to give off-Loop shows an afterlife
Chicago Commercial Collective wants to give off-Loop hits a profitable afterlife.
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I Am Going to Change the World may sound positive
A new play from Andrew Hinderaker, author of Suicide, Incorporated
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Best of 2011, number 8: The Wise Kids
J.R. Jones on The Wise Kids, his number 8 movie of 2011.
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A hit and a miss
Sarah Gubbins’s The Kid Thing and Sean Graney’s Sophocles: Seven Sicknesses