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Home » Michael Halberstam

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Bear Bellinger and Kate Shindle
Posted inArts & Culture

A tsunami of news and a new path for Actors’ Equity membership

by Kerry Reid July 30, 2021August 18, 2021

Changes in faces, places, and union rules might carry harbingers of a shifting landscape in Chicago theater.

Posted inArts & Culture

A streamlined version of A Doll’s House races through Writers Theatre

by Kerry Reid October 9, 2019August 18, 2021

Even without a door slam, Henrik Ibsen’s classic hits home.

Posted inArts & Culture

Writers Theatre’s joyful The Importance of Being Earnest has a dreadful spoiler

by Aimee Levitt November 22, 2017August 18, 2021

Just as in Oscar Wilde’s time, there are whispers in the audience.

Posted inBlogs

Kanye West returns to Chicago, makes first live appearance in nearly a year, and other news

by Kate Shepherd November 6, 2017August 18, 2021

Also, the Chicago Police Department discredits terrorism plot rumors.

Posted inArts & Culture

Parachute Men, You on the Moors Now, and eight more new theater reviews

by Chicago Reader September 22, 2016August 18, 2021

This week’s stage highlights include three losers who (hopefully) make good and four 19th-century fictional heroines battling their would-be betrotheds.

Posted inArts & Culture

Little Shop of Horrors, Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf, and ten more new stage shows

by Chicago Reader May 12, 2016August 18, 2021

A monstrous revival and a collaboration between Writers Theatre and Second City are among this week’s theater and performance best bets.

Posted inArts & Culture

A beautiful new building opens with a complex play

by Tony Adler March 31, 2016August 18, 2021

Michael Halberstam’s staging of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia is the inaugural production in Writers Theatre’s new Studio Gang Architects building in Glencoe.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Michael Halberstam moonlights with the fledgling company Definition Theatre

by Deanna Isaacs April 14, 2015August 18, 2021

As A Doll’s House plays in the city, Writers Theatre’s new Jeanne Gang-designed facility goes up in the burbs.

Deanna Dunagan in Lookingglass Theatre's Death Watch
Posted inArts & Culture

Hnath Fest! Lookingglass and Writers Theatre present works by the same up-and-comer

by Tony Adler September 17, 2014August 18, 2021

Lookingglass and Writers Theatre present works by up-and-coming playwright Lucas Hnath, one effective, one coy.

Will Mobley and Emily Berman
Posted inArts & Culture

Writers Theatre’s Days Like Today can be a real pain

by Tony Adler May 28, 2014August 18, 2021

Days Like Today, a new musical at Writers Theatre, explores love and commitment—through annoying characters.

Posted inBlogs

Jail break at the Metropolitan Correctional Center

by Steve Bogira December 18, 2012August 19, 2021

For the first time in 27 years there’s been an escape from the jail in the South Loop

Is it nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of fabulous fortune?
Posted inArts & Culture

A homo Hamlet?

by Tony Adler September 19, 2012August 19, 2021

Director Michael Halberstam posits a gay Hamlet in his Writers’ Theater production

Posted inBlogs

The NEA comes to Glencoe’s aid

by Deanna Isaacs July 16, 2012August 19, 2021

A $100,000 NEA grant will help build a theater in upscale Glencoe, Illinois

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Posted inArts & Culture

Waiting for Hamlet

by Tony Adler November 5, 2009August 19, 2021

Tom Stoppard’s early, Beckettian play at Writers’ Theatre

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