MOVIE QUEENS Zebra Crossing Theatre at the Edgewater Theatre Center One scene in Claudia Allen’s new play says it all. Two famous Hollywood film stars of the 30s have just come home with their male companions from a studio-approved double date. Suddenly the conventional couples break apart, whirl around, and the newly formed same-sex couples […]
Tag: Vol. 19 No. 49
Issue of Sep. 20 – 26, 1990
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The Sports Section
Decades make for arbitrary divisions, but there’s no denying 1990 was the year Wrigley Field became an upscale, yuppie ballpark. Wrigley could be forgiven before for attracting college kids to its bleachers and suit-and-tie types to its box seats, but this year they took over. Combining with others of their ilk, known by their fondness […]
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Oak Park’s dilemma: who controls historic housing?
How far do a community’s legitimate interests extend when it comes to private property? Most people who live in urban areas accept the concept of zoning; but how far should that concept be taken? An ordinance has been proposed in Oak Park that would grant the Historic Preservation Commission of Oak Park the right to […]
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News of the Weird
Lead Story Six U.S. soldiers who recently deserted sensitive intelligence positions in West Germany were found in Gulf Breeze, Florida, in July, and under questioning revealed that they had been spiritually chosen to greet spaceships and to work toward achieving world nirvana. (Gulf Breeze was the location of a large number of UFO sightings in […]
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Kenny Neal, Lucky Peterson & Silent Partners
Better bring the fire extinguisher for this one–it’s a summit meeting of some of the hottest, most audacious Young Turks on the contemporary scene, and it has the potential to be either a scorching success or an out-of-control blues bonfire. Guitarist Neal, son of Baton Rouge harmonica legend Raful Neal, is probably the most restrained […]
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Hot Spot
PS ’91 at Puszh Studios September 13 Most people have big dreams they fantasize about turning into reality. Occasionally, the rare individual has enough talent and force of personality to make such dreams come true. At Puszh Studios, director David Puszczewicz and managing director Terry James have turned ambition into fact. Not content to offer […]
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Tiny Alice
TINY ALICE Touchstone Theatre Edward Albee contends that his play Tiny Alice is actually very simple. Everyone but the critics seems to understand it just fine, he says. In fact he blames the critics for confusing people. Audiences who saw the play in previews in 1964 had little trouble deciphering the meaning, Albee said recently. […]
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Art Facts: a tradition of looking forward
One April evening 75 years ago a coterie of Hyde Park intellectuals and art connoisseurs gathered at the University of Chicago’s Quadrangle Club. Bonded by a nostalgia for the cultural havens back east–where most of them were educated–they decided to establish a society “to stimulate love of the beautiful and to enrich the life of […]
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The Beachcombers
THE BEACHCOMBERS Saratoga Company at Blind Parrot Playwright Craig Carlisle drops us into the middle of a potentially volatile situation in The Beachcombers, a new play being given its premiere production by the Saratoga Company. Waite (Carlisle) and Manny (Jay Woolston), brothers fiercely committed to each other, share a dilapidated Indiana beachside house they’ve inherited […]
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At the Reunion
AT THE REUNION Set Gourmet Theatre Jimmy Durante said it best–“Everybody wants to get into the act!” Nevertheless, when the Set Gourmet Theatre announced last year its intention of presenting a dinner-theater package in which the production and the provender were served up simultaneously, show-biz pundits all over Chicago were taking bets on whether this […]
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The Iceman Speaketh
A Conversation With R&B Singer and County Commissioner Jerry Butler
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Child’s Play: Shakespeare for kids, unabridged
On a rainy summer afternoon, when most children are camped out in front of the television playing Nintendo or watching videos, the Young Shakespeare Players are rehearsing for a full-length performance of Hamlet at the Anshe Emet School on Pine Grove. As the infamous prince of Denmark, Rosanna Orfield, a pretty blond 15-year-old, sinks to […]
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Cat Tracker
The lady on the phone took a moment to compose herself. When her crying had stopped, she tried to explain the situation to me. “I searched and searched everywhere,” she said. “And I talked to everyone I could find.” She was talking about Daisy, her cat. “So I decided to call you,” she said apologetically. […]
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Babylon Sisters/All Eight Die
BABYLON SISTERS New Tuners Theatre ALL EIGHT DIE Cardiff Giant at Angel Island “Wednesday’s our TV night,” says the heroine of Babylon Sisters to a friend, explaining why she has to stay home with her sister. “It’s the only thing we do together.” I don’t know the patterns of Norbert Gunther Kramer’s family life, but […]
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Theater League Lays Back/Further Improvements at WFMT/MCA Hires Minnesota Designer/Restaurant Trends/We Have Seen the Future, and It Is Sponsored
John Grbac’s new restaurant, Jimo’s, is pitched mainly at Wicker Park artists and blue-collar workers. But fabulously rich Lincoln Parkers will not be turned away.