Cathy Marston’s staging features brilliant duets, but her take on Charlotte Brontë’s classic has some limitations.
Tag: Jane Eyre
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Parachute Men, You on the Moors Now, and eight more new theater reviews
This week’s stage highlights include three losers who (hopefully) make good and four 19th-century fictional heroines battling their would-be betrotheds.
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Orson Welles’s five best performances in films he didn’t direct
Highlights from Orson Welles’s acting career
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Jane Austen and musicals are not quite incompatible
Paul Gordon’s adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, making its world premiere at Chicago Shakespeare, wants more sensibility, less sense.
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Old Town’s Piper’s Alley screens last shows tonight
The AMC-Loews Piper’s Alley movie theater in Old Town will close its doors tonight after one final evening of screenings, set to include Cedar Rapids, I Am, The Conspirator, and Jane Eyre. Word spread via Twitter this morning, and was first reported by Chicagoist, which expounded upon the theater’s closing.
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Jane Eyre’s Mystery Man
A new screen adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s prefeminist novel reminds us how perplexed Jane was by the male animal.
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European Union Film Festival
Friday, March 4 through Thursday, March 31 at the Gene Siskel Film Center