In July, as COVID-19 restrictions began to lift and the Chicago performing arts geared themselves up to resurrect, the Rough House Theater Co. headquarters at coartistic directors Claire Saxe and Mike Oleon’s home in Humboldt Park morphed into a puppet rehearsal palace. Rough House’s anthology production House of the Exquisite Corpse wouldn’t be opening at […]
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The great puppet caper
The story behind a Wicker Park building full of “creepy wooden dolls with strings”
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The Sublime Beauty of Hands/Klown Kantos
The first local production by Michael Montenegro and his “puppet symbolist theatre,” Theatre Zarko, opening 9/26