What is it that draws great writers to boxing as a subject? Is it an identification with the sport’s pure brutal (yet calculated) physicality removed from the need for verbal acuity? A way to demonstrate street cred (a kind of reverse snobbery)? For A.J. Liebling, the “sweet science” (at least when viewed in person) was […]
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Manservant and manchild
Fourteen years ago, First Folio Theatre presented Jeeves Intervenes, the first in what would prove to be a reliably crowd-pleasing series of adaptations by Margaret Raether of P.G. Wodehouse’s “Jeeves and Bertie” stories. (Jeeves Saves the Day was the last show the company presented before the COVID-19 shutdown.) So it makes sense that they’d kick […]
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When the swash buckles
There’s a reason you rarely see Zorro: The Musical, the 2008 show inspired by a masked Spanish hero (conceived of by Johnston McCulley in 1919 and since the subject of numerous books and movies) who defeats evil and tyranny by expert swashbuckling. Scratch that. There are myriad reasons. Among them: Zorro: The MusicalThrough 8/21: Wed 1 PM, […]
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Mr. Dickens’ Hat offers a different spin on a Victorian Christmas
In 1865, Charles Dickens, his mistress Ellen Ternan, and her mother were all on a train that derailed in Kent, England. Dickens used his hat to carry water to the survivors (and some that didn’t make it). That grim footnote in history forms the basis for Michael Hollinger’s Mr. Dickens’ Hat, a play with music […]
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Remy Bumppo and Teatro Vista name new artistic directors
Marti Lyons takes over at Remy Bumppo, while Lorena Diaz and Wendy Mateo share the top job at Teatro Vista.
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The Chimes and I Hate It Here ring out a horrible year
Charles Dickens and Ike Holter are unlikely twin spirit guides in two online shows.
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Howards End and the architecture of hurry
Douglas Post’s new adaptation for Remy Buppo resonates in our age of class unrest and digital disconnects.
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Remy Bumppo builds a stunning new Frankenstein
There’s not even a hint of Boris Karloff.
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Silk Road Rising’s Great Expectations is less a morality tale than a tale of easy moralizing
In an adaptation that puts Pip in India under the Raj, there’s no way for him to succeed without betraying his heritage.
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Beauty and the Beast, The Complete Deaths, and four more new theater reviews
Short runs at the MCA and Chicago Shakespeare Theater are among this week’s notable shows.
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A Light in the Dark, Undreamed Shores, and more new performing arts reviews
A dance-enriched version of The Miracle Worker and a Shakespeare-inspired immersive experience are among this week’s best bets.
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The Hypocrites’ Adding Machine, Factory’s The Last Big Mistake, and eight more stage shows to see now
Ten new reviews of notable stage shows, among them a musical based on Elmer Rice’s expressionist 1923 satire.
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Remy Bumppo Theatre aces Tom Stoppard’s test with Travesties
Remy Bumppo Theatre aces Tom Stoppard’s erudite play Travesties.
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Remy Bumppo artistic director Timothy Douglas resigns
Remy Bumppo artistic director Timothy Douglas resigns
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Bruised Bodies, Bruised Souls
Rod Serling’s time-tested play about boxing doesn’t pull any punches.