Out of the closets and onto the stage
Tag: Tony Kushner
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Firebrand’s Caroline, or Change revels in tension, both racial and domestic
Firebrand’s production features fearless, fantastic singers.
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Brecht gets the hip-hop treatment in The Good Person of Szechwan
But Cor Theatre’s update of the parable rings false.
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When is cyber flirtation cyber infidelity?
Dan’s advice on cyber cheating, what to do when you’ve shtupped the new hire, and middle age as a gay man.
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The Peacock’s no calamity, but it isn’t West’s best
The Peacock, playwright Calamity West’s latest, receives an unsatisfying staging by Jackalope Theatre Company.
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Victory Gardens Theater shortens its season
The company also looks for resident companies to share its space.
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The 1980s: a decade of excess wealth and interminable longing
A short essay on some common themes in Angels in America and “This Will Have Been”
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2009 Chicago Humanities Festival Audio/Video Highlights
Roy Zipstein Tony Kusher The Chicago Humanities Festival has just begun to post audio and video of selected programs from its recently concluded 2009 festival, this year themed “Laughter.” The first three posts under “The Laughter Continues”: Tony Kushner receiving the 2009 Chicago Tribune Literary Prize (audio only) Historian Simon Schama telling Jewish jokes Second […]
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Fall Arts Guide 2009 Best Bets: Chicago Humanities Festival
The theme of this 20th edition is, simply, “Laughter,” and as usual the organizers have brought together an eclectic assortment of writers, artists, scientists, scholars, and performers to address the topic in dozens of programs stretched out over a couple weeks.
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Let’s give a hand to The Boys in the Band
The pioneering gay play, The Boys in the Band, at 40.
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Absolut Kiss
This cabaret concert by the cast of Kiss of the Spider Woman–The Musical, which is playing in a first-rate touring production at the Chicago Theatre, promises to be high on quality, emotional pull, and historical significance. Certainly no lover of American musical theater will want to miss hearing two near-legendary stars, Carol Lawrence and Rita […]