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Tag: Theater on the Lake
At Theater on the Lake, a free Prologue to a free season
Theater on the Lake kicks off its season with a free three-day seminar for the Chicago theater community.
Know thy mayor: A few of Rahm’s favorite things
Mayor Emanuel’s picks for reading, dining, and recreation, from fly fishing to Faust to Four Moon Tavern
Rahm’s Chicago Stories podcast takes you inside the mind of the mayor
We listened to all 18 hours of it so you don’t have to.
Ten surprising stories from the year in Chicago culture
From Theater on the Lake to spaceship on the park, 2016 was a weird time in the city.
Ad Hoc [Home], As You Like It, and nine more new stage shows and revivals
About Face Theatre Youth Ensemble and Arc Theatre make more with less.
There’s good news and bad news about Theater on the Lake’s upcoming season
Theater on the Lake will have another vagabond season; playwright Ike Holter will curate
Poster child for the newly formed Friends of Lucas Museum: Theater on the Lake?
Poor old Theater on the Lake is a strange poster child for the newly formed Friends of Lucas Museum.
Richard Cotovsky’s life on the fringe, rewarded
After four decades in Chicago theater, Mary-Arrchie’s Richard Cotovsky gets a special nod from the Jeff Awards.
Still a beach bum, after all these years
A planned major rehab never happened, but at 60, Theater on the Lake has some new blood
Action Movie: The Play–The Director’s Cut
Last summer Defiant Theatre company members Joe Foust and Richard Ragsdale caught lightning in a bottle with their wacky, whip-smart parody of the action genre’s most egregious cliches, performed to enthusiastic audiences at the American Theater Company and Theater on the Lake. Yet Foust and Ragsdale went back and revised their script in an effort […]