The bad-boy playwright is true to himself in Steppenwolf’s Linda Vista.
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Profiles Theatre actor: ‘I got $75 a week to get the shit beat out of me’
Actors and crew members push back against denials that the onstage violence at Profiles Theatre was very often real.
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‘The statement is a study in crisis management’: Not in Our House leaders decline to meet with Darrell Cox without an apology
Not in Our House plans to present a petition to the theater later this week.
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At Profiles Theatre the drama—and abuse—is real
For more than 20 years, actors and crew members stayed silent about mistreatment they suffered at the acclaimed storefront theater. Now they’re speaking up, hoping to protect workers in non-Equity theaters across the country.
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Horrible Bosses 2 has a lot to say about degradation—and almost none of it’s funny
The latest lowbrow comedy from Warner Bros. also has a surprising amount in common with the chilling indie drama Ghosts of Empire Prairie, which screens in Chicago next week.
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Reader’s Agenda Tue 4/16: “The Reinvention of Vivian Maier,” William Friedkin, and Rectify
What’s on the Reader’s Agenda for Tuesday, April 16, 2013.
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Weekly Top Five: “Violence is not funny”—the best of William Friedkin
Weekly Top Five: William Friedkin films
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Sick with fear, and the rest of the week’s movies
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s, you know, issue
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Harold Pinter and the sound of silence
Harold Pinter’s screenplays deepen our understanding of his work.
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Tracy Letts on The Interview Show
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright/actor Tracy Letts stopped by “The Interview Show,” hosted by Mark Bazer, to discuss “August: Osage County,” Steppenwolf Theatre, the Festivus episode of “Seinfeld” and Profiles Theatre’s revival of his first play, “Killer Joe,” now playing at the Royal George Theatre in Chicago. Watch below: (The next “Interview Show” is July 9, at […]
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The Good Foote
The gentle Talking Pictures is as good an entree into the Goodman’s celebration of Horton Foote as what’s on the mainstage.