Actor, singer, and all-around raconteur Jane Blass, who called Chicago home from 1988-2006 before she relocated to New York, where she performed on Broadway and in the touring companies of many shows, died at 59 after a long struggle with stomach cancer on August 6. Dorothy Milne, her friend and cofounder of the long-running women’s storytelling collective the Sweat Girls, compiled these remembrances from those who knew and loved her in Chicago and New York.
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BoHo and Lifeline examine the public and private split
The Pursuit of Happiness and Pride and Prejudice confront the limitations of Zoom culture with exhilarating results.
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Middle Passage is part voyage of the damned, part picaresque
Lifeline’s staging of Charles Johnson’s novel has sea legs.
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Leaping into live performance for February
Our critics suggest ten ways to fill out that slightly longer calendar this month.
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Bunny’s Book Club illustrates the love of a good story
Lifeline Theatre KidSeries brings children and animals together for a family-friendly yarn.
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Nestor Gomez and 80 Minutes Around the World land at Fillet of Solo
The Guatemalan immigrant shares his own perspectives on failure and finding his voice.
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Murder mystery meets buddy comedy in Whose Body?
Lifeline’s revival of this 2002 Dorothy Sayers adaptation could use more breathing room to fully come alive.
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Lifeline’s Emma takes some liberties but remains true to the playful spirit of the original
In which five actors play the entire village of Highbury.
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The Man Who Was Thursday’s visual splendors compensate for its extreme verbosity
When you get tired of listening to spies, there’s a beautiful set and lighting.
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Here are five theater festivals to help you survive January
Puppets! Storytelling! Social consciousness! Brilliant teens! Rhinofest weirdness!
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A roundup of 15 Halloween shows to thrill and chill you
Explore haunted houses, meet a vampiric rabbit, two Frankensteins, and Freddy Krueger’s hot brother
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Lifeline Theatre’s Frankenstein reduces Mary Shelley’s cosmic struggle to a therapy session
It fails to pay tribute to the big questions raised by the classic novel celebrating its bicentennial this year.
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Chicago celebrates two centuries of Dr. Frankenstein and his monster
Frankenfest brings four stage adaptations of Mary Shelley’s gothic masterpiece.
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There’s too much story for one play in Neverwhere, but it’s a hell of a visual trip
Young audiences may appreciate it more than their parents.
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Chi-town Blues Festival and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend
Closing night of Lifeline’s Anna Kareina and more goings-on 4/6-4/8