IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER Lookingglass Theatre Company at the Prop Theatre When I was old enough to have my own room, in the heated porch off my parents’ apartment, my grandmother suggested I look under my bed every night just in case an intruder was hiding there. I did–and when I got my […]
Tag: Vol. 22 No. 37
Issue of Jun. 24 – 30, 1993
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Shh . . . What Will the Neighbors Think?/In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe
SHH . . . WHAT WILL THE NEIGHBORS THINK? I’m Not Howard Productions at Center Theater Studio IN PERPETUITY THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE Resistance at Curious Theatre Branch In Shh . . . What Will the Neighbors Think? author Susan Howard has created an offensive, silly parody of American family life, a hopelessly confused script that […]
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Theater Notes: voices from over the edge
David Hauptschein’s interest in “outsider” literature–writing by eccentrics, social misfits, the mentally ill–began about five years ago, when he was looking for source material for his own writing. “I had been exploring the underbelly of the mind: the subconscious, dreams, delirium,” he explains. “I came across a magazine called Kooks, which specialized in “insane’ writing.” […]
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The Sister Platform
THE SISTER PLATFORM Marcia Wilkie, Cheryl Trykv, and Lawrence Steger at the Blue Rider Theatre, June 13 The name “The Sister Platform”–describing a program at the Blue Rider conceived and executed by Marcia Wilkie, Cheryl Trykv, and Lawrence Steger–suggests at the most a collaboration, and at the least thematic links. But in actuality this hour-long […]
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Sweet, Westerberg, Dre: Tops of the Pop?
Pop music means two things. For the first, it’s what’s popular, what’s capturing the imagination (or at least the attention) of fans, mostly kids, at any given time. But in the alternative and critical world the term has also, more and more, been used to describe music that does little but vacantly reference a smorgasbord […]
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Lost-Picture Show
BUZZ SPECTOR, FURTHER RE:COLLECTIONS at Roy Boyd Gallery, through July 6 The largest piece in Buzz Spector’s show at Roy Boyd Gallery might at first bring a smile to the viewer. On the floor next to a freestanding white wall almost seven feet high with eight rectangular indentations lie eight rectangular books that match the […]
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Bad Summer for White Boys
To the editors: For the second week in a row, we’ve been treated to Jonathan Rosenbaum’s hysteria about the damage “political correctness” is doing to the movies [“Beautiful and Barbaric,” June 11]. Apparently it’s been a tough summer for white boys. If I understand Mr. Rosenbaum’s use of the term, “political correctness” means “the belief […]
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The Two of Us
THE TWO OF US Prairie del’Arte Theatre Company at Victory Gardens Studio Theater As anyone who’s ever seen Noises Off can tell you, journalist-novelist-playwright-screenwriter Michael Frayn has a gift for comedy. Or, to be more precise, he has a a gift for farce. Deep down even Noises Off–beneath all the theatrical in-jokes, the sly Pirandellian […]
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Department of Complicated Reasoning
To the editors: I am stunned by Michael Miner’s reply to an enraged letter [May 14] criticizing his editorial about how few women are urging U.S. intervention in Bosnia [Hot Type, April 23]. The writer told Miner he ought to know that many women may want troops to go, but they weren’t “naive” enough to […]
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Restaurant Tours: eating correctly at the Whole Foods Market
The Whole Foods Market, which opened in March at North and Sheffield, is the new hangout for the politically correct. They’re loading their shopping carts with natural pet foods, nontoxic cleaning agents, recycled paper products, naturally brewed beers, and wine from organic grapes. They’re buying nitrite-free, hormone-free, organically fed, free-range poultry, beef, lamb, and veal […]
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Mollie West Done Justice
To the editors: I usually only write to a paper when I am upset, however I am writing to you now because I thought Florence Hamlish Levinsohn’s article on Mollie West was terrific [“A Radical Woman,” April 16]. I have known Mollie for many years, so I knew something about her life. But, after reading […]
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In Other Words
IN OTHER WORDS Theatre Praxis at Facets Multimedia Center It seems that the underlying messages of the four selections that make up Theatre Praxis’s evening of short plays, “In Other Words,” are that heterosexual males are repulsive–even if they were once homosexual females–that gay men (especially dead Asian ones) are saints, and that gay women […]
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Mad About Mariotti/Blind Obsession/Torture Tape
Mad ABout Mariotti Jay Mariotti writes about sports the way some bristling young intellectuals used to write about film: it was their means, their end, the alpha and omega of their reality. Mariotti fascinates us. He works like a dog and writes with the obsessiveness of the fanatic. He seems to view any other reporter […]
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Captive
CAPTIVE Splinter Group Bill is a burly construction worker, Jessica a soft-voiced office drudge. They say they haven’t had sex in four years–they’ve settled for exchanging fantasies and game playing a la Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Though they come close to arousing each other, as Jessica says, “Close doesn’t mean anything. Close is the […]
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Two Small Bodies
TWO SMALL BODIES Blue Collar Theatre Company at Cafe Voltaire A playwright’s talent is often best evidenced in the way he or she handles cliches. Most playwrights can create quirky characters, unusual language, plot twists. Even a novel idea is not beyond the reach of many. But when playwrights run smack up against those scenes […]