Something else took me to Arizona last week, but on what the locals considered a pleasant Tuesday afternoon I was in Surprise Stadium, in the Phoenix suburb of the same name, for the Cubs’s final preseason game. They were facing the Texas Rangers. Both teams were wearing Cubbie blue. The temperature on the field was […]
Tag: Joe Mantegna
Posted inTheater Review
Lenny Bruce is back
The last time I reviewed Ronnie Marmo’s one-man show on Lenny Bruce, in October 2019 (then running at the now-closed Royal George Theatre), I was underwhelmed. Marmo’s performance as Bruce was good, but Bruce’s curse-filled material just didn’t have the liberating zing I remembered as a kid listening to his records or watching Bob Fosse’s […]
Posted inMusic
The untold story of Joe Mantegna’s teenage garage band
The Apocryphals formed at Morton East High School in Cicero and released five singles before Mantegna left to pursue his burgeoning acting career.
Posted inArts & Culture
Stuart Gordon, legend of off-Loop theater and horror films, dies at 72
From Warp! to Re-Animator, Gordon told the stories he wanted to see his way.
Posted inArts & Culture
I’m Not a Comedian . . . I’m Lenny Bruce captures the complexities of a comic genius
Ronnie Marmo’s one-man show isn’t hilarious, but it’s arrestingly honest.
Posted inArts & Culture
Cheers Live, Dog Night, The Happiest Place on Earth, and nine more new theater reviews
The latest Chicago stage shows range from the rawly emotional to the enjoyably ridiculous.
Posted inBlogs
Suicide is painless in Amour Fou, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Curtains for the Uptown Hull House Center theater
An 11th-hour effort fails to save the longtime home of Organic and Black Ensemble theater companies.
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An eleventh-hour online petition seeks to save Uptown’s Hull House theater
Online petition seeks to save Uptown’s historic Hull House theater.