Actor, singer, and all-around raconteur Jane Blass, who called Chicago home from 1988-2006 before she relocated to New York, where she performed on Broadway and in the touring companies of many shows, died at 59 after a long struggle with stomach cancer on August 6. Dorothy Milne, her friend and cofounder of the long-running women’s storytelling collective the Sweat Girls, compiled these remembrances from those who knew and loved her in Chicago and New York.
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“David Mamet warned me that this would break my heart”
Stuart Gordon on losing the fight to save the Hull House theater
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Curtains for the Uptown Hull House Center theater
An 11th-hour effort fails to save the longtime home of Organic and Black Ensemble theater companies.
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The Young Playwrights Festival gets a new home, for now
A review of The Pegasus Players’ Young Playwrights Festival in the soon-retired Hull House.
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Chicago Theaters Participate in TCG’s Free Night of Theater
Twelve Chicago theaters will be among the 120 participating in a national Free Night of Theater.
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Pegasus Players salutes founder
Arlene Crewdson to be honored at benefit, non-Equity Jeffs.