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Home » Joe Foust

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Posted inArts & Culture

Jeeves Saves the Day offers a midwinter escape

by Kerry Reid February 6, 2020August 18, 2021

Bertie Wooster isn’t the dimmest bulb onstage in First Folio’s Wodehouse romp.

Posted inArts & Culture

Sherlock’s Last Case puts the Baker Street genius in a tight spot

by Kerry Reid October 9, 2019August 18, 2021

As First Folio’s droll and dark production demonstrates, he rather deserves it.

Posted inArts & Culture

A search for a missing gay teen reveals The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey

by Albert Williams April 10, 2019August 18, 2021

Joe Foust deftly portrays the detective and all the parties in the investigation.

Posted inArts & Culture

Theater Wit gives second bananas their due

by Tony Adler October 8, 2015August 18, 2021

Time-traveling tale The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence focuses on the help in the form of a quartet of Watsons.

Posted inBlogs

Chicago Theater Memorial Bike Ride honors theater professionals lost too soon

by Colleen Cottet September 17, 2015August 18, 2021

The Chicago Theater Memorial Bike Ride commemorates theater professionals who have recently passed.

Posted inArts & Culture

Action Movie: The Play–The Director’s Cut

by Nick Green June 24, 1999August 19, 2021

Last summer Defiant Theatre company members Joe Foust and Richard Ragsdale caught lightning in a bottle with their wacky, whip-smart parody of the action genre’s most egregious cliches, performed to enthusiastic audiences at the American Theater Company and Theater on the Lake. Yet Foust and Ragsdale went back and revised their script in an effort […]

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