In this installment, a young alderwoman learns that doing good is much harder than promising to do good.
Tag: Lisa Portes
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The Jeff Awards go gender neutral but still manage to favor men
“The issue of diversity in theater for awards does not start with the Jeff Awards. It ends at the Jeff Awards.”
Posted inArts & Culture
Carnaval 2018 immerses visitors in Chicago’s Latinx theater community
The celebration lasts four days, with tours, workshops, and staged readings of six new plays.
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Antoinette Nwandu’s Breach fails to live up to its potential
It also somehow manages to render African-American women’s struggle for agency incidental.
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Chicago theater director Lisa Portes on dealing with actor freak-outs
Director Lisa Portes spearheaded the Carnaval of New Latina/o Work at DePaul happening July 23-25.
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A pilot brings the war home in American Blues Theater’s Grounded
George Brant scores a direct hit with Grounded, his one-woman play.
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Theater People: Hate at first sight results in interesting Offspring
The story behind husband-and-wife playwright Carlos Murillo and director Lisa Portes’s Offspring of the Cold War.