Rick Bayless’s Cascabel has priced itself out of the pleasure zone.
Tag: Lookingglass Theatre
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Reader’s Agenda Mon 2/17: The Dinner Party, Oscar-nominated shorts, and Saint Joan
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Monday, February 17
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Still thinking about Lookingglass Theatre’s Still Alice—and about Alzheimer’s
The play and the novel it’s based on grapple with the disease honestly, as does a recent account in free verse.
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A haiku for Metamorphoses, performed in a pool of water
Lookingglass Theatre revives Mary Zimmerman’s stage work based on stories from Ovid
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Fela to Freud to Frontera: fresh Reader performing arts reviews
New performing arts reviews from Reader critics
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The making of the city on the make
Lookingglass Theatre’s The Great Fire revisits the catastrophe that destroyed and created Chicago
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Lookingglass Theatre, Frontera Grill, and scalp-it-yourself pricing
Rick Bayless/Tony Hernandez production will bring “on-demand pricing” to Lookingglass Theatre.
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Lookingglass Theatre wins a Tony, mayor expresses pleasure
Lookingglass Theatre wins a regional Tony
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Chicago: America’s theater capital?
Surely no words ever written by any theater critic stirred more local buzz than Michael Billington’s 2004 observation in London’s Guardian that “Chicago . . . [is] the current theatre capital of America.” It came like manna from heaven to the denizens of this no longer even second city, and they seized upon it. At last the flyover on […]
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One woman’s transcendental path to the director’s chair
Kate Churchill channels her passion for yoga into directing the new documentary, Enlighten Up!
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David Cromer’s Our Town opens off-Broadway Feb. 26
The Hypocrites’ 2008 staging of Our Town heads to New York this week, and Lookingglass’s new version of the same play opens here.
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Final Analysis
Albert Williams reviews Steppenwolf Theatre’s 1999 production of Hysteria, by British playwright Terry Johnson