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Home » Sheldon Patinkin

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Posted inArts & Culture

Lookingglass’s Blood Wedding, Strawdog’s D.O.A., and nine more notable current stage shows

by Chicago Reader March 18, 2016August 18, 2021

García Lorca gets transplanted to the Dust Bowl, and an off-Loop mainstay goes noir.

Posted inArts & Culture

Chicago theater was true to our times in 2015

by Tony Adler December 23, 2015August 18, 2021

Theater Wit’s Bad Jews and the Goodman’s Stop. Reset. are among our senior theater critic’s favorites of the year.

Posted inBlogs

Chicago Theater Memorial Bike Ride honors theater professionals lost too soon

by Colleen Cottet September 17, 2015August 18, 2021

The Chicago Theater Memorial Bike Ride commemorates theater professionals who have recently passed.

Clockwise from top left: Hair, The Qualms, The Night Alive, Monstrous Regiment
Posted inArts & Culture

Chicago theater 2014: In a year of hard losses, the shows went on—many of them spendidly

by Tony Adler December 23, 2014August 18, 2021

The Chicago theater community lost Sheldon Patinkin and several others in 2014, but the shows went on—some of them spendidly.

Sheldon Patinkin
Posted inArts & Culture

Hyde Park & Kenwood Issue: The Cradle of Chicago-Style Theater

by Tony Adler March 4, 2010August 19, 2021

Both Chicago improv and the off-Loop theater movement have their roots in Hyde Park. Sheldon Patinkin was there.

Posted inArts & Culture

The Second City’s 50th Anniversary Weekend

by Sam Adams December 10, 2009August 19, 2021

December 11-13

Posted inBlogs

Ivanov Against All Odds

by Justin Hayford October 29, 2009August 19, 2021

Sinnerman Ensemble overcomes all kinds of tribulations to put on one of the best shows of the season so far.

Posted inBlogs

Columbia College gets a new theater chair

by Tony Adler April 1, 2009August 19, 2021

Butler University theater chair John Green tapped to succeed Sheldon Patinkin at Columbia College.

Posted inBlogs

Remembering Tom O’Horgan

by Albert Williams January 13, 2009August 19, 2021

Chicago director Sheldon Patinkin recalls Tom O’Horgan, best known for directing Hair on Broadway.

Posted inBlogs

Candide comments, Threepenny thoughts

by Albert Williams September 26, 2008August 19, 2021

Threepenny turns 80, Bernstein turns 90.

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