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Tag: Michael Halberstam
A streamlined version of A Doll’s House races through Writers Theatre
Even without a door slam, Henrik Ibsen’s classic hits home.
Writers Theatre’s joyful The Importance of Being Earnest has a dreadful spoiler
Just as in Oscar Wilde’s time, there are whispers in the audience.
Kanye West returns to Chicago, makes first live appearance in nearly a year, and other news
Also, the Chicago Police Department discredits terrorism plot rumors.
Parachute Men, You on the Moors Now, and eight more new theater reviews
This week’s stage highlights include three losers who (hopefully) make good and four 19th-century fictional heroines battling their would-be betrotheds.
Little Shop of Horrors, Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf, and ten more new stage shows
A monstrous revival and a collaboration between Writers Theatre and Second City are among this week’s theater and performance best bets.
A beautiful new building opens with a complex play
Michael Halberstam’s staging of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia is the inaugural production in Writers Theatre’s new Studio Gang Architects building in Glencoe.
Michael Halberstam moonlights with the fledgling company Definition Theatre
As A Doll’s House plays in the city, Writers Theatre’s new Jeanne Gang-designed facility goes up in the burbs.
Hnath Fest! Lookingglass and Writers Theatre present works by the same up-and-comer
Lookingglass and Writers Theatre present works by up-and-coming playwright Lucas Hnath, one effective, one coy.
Writers Theatre’s Days Like Today can be a real pain
Days Like Today, a new musical at Writers Theatre, explores love and commitment—through annoying characters.
Jail break at the Metropolitan Correctional Center
For the first time in 27 years there’s been an escape from the jail in the South Loop
A homo Hamlet?
Director Michael Halberstam posits a gay Hamlet in his Writers’ Theater production
The NEA comes to Glencoe’s aid
A $100,000 NEA grant will help build a theater in upscale Glencoe, Illinois
Waiting for Hamlet
Tom Stoppard’s early, Beckettian play at Writers’ Theatre