During 2020, my running joke was that, although there weren’t any plays happening, there was always plenty of drama to report on in Chicago theater. In fall of 2021, we started seeing some theater return, though the season was cut short by last December’s COVID surge. (Not to be confused with the one we’re currently […]
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Posted inGhost Light
Rogers Park gets more magical, and TimeLine gets a new executive director
There have been a series of theaters sheltered in the building at 1328 W. Morse in Rogers Park since 1912, when it opened as a vaudeville house called (logically enough) the Morse Theater. In the 1930s, it became the Co-Ed Theater, but that closed down in 1954. After being the home of Congregation Beth Israel […]
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TimeLine marches on
TimeLine Theatre unveils plans for their new Uptown home, while their longtime managing director transitions to a new role.
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Youth theater ensembles? They’re Essential
Free Street, Collaboraction, and TimeLine put young theater artists in the frame.
Posted inMusic
Fifty years ago, Trilogy brought the west coast’s countrified rock sound to Chicago
Trilogy’s sole album flopped, but it’s ripe for rediscovery by the young bands in love with the old Laurel Canyon scene.
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What happened to A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 masterpiece, A Raisin in the Sun, is still a potent indictment.