Part two of Australian writer-director John Duigan’s trilogy about teenage life in the 60s (which commenced with 1987’s The Year My Voice Broke) follows Danny Embling (Noah Taylor) to a ritzy boarding school, where he becomes involved with Thandiwe Adjewa (Thandie Newton), a beautiful and precocious black girl from Uganda, at a nearby girls’ school. […]
Tag: Vol. 22 No. 6
Issue of Nov. 19 – 25, 1992
Posted inNews & Politics
Open All Night
After 4 AM you can’t legally buy liquor anywhere. The 7-Elevens and White Hens stop selling at 2, as do most bars and taverns. But even after the four o’clock bars have closed, the old man bootlegger of Uptown, call him Sam, is still open for business. “This is the way I make my living,” […]
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Winifred Haun & Dancers
WINIFRED HAUN & DANCERS at the Athenaeum Theatre November 13 and 14 Making art is not hard–an artist at work often feels as if she’s just playing–but its long history can make an artist nervous, as if Shakespeare or Beethoven were looking over her shoulder at every moment. The more intelligent she is, and the […]
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Danny’s Show-a-Go-Go!/The Return of Newman & Cline Grand Follies
DANNY’S SHOW-A-GO-GO! Corn Productions at Danny’s Tavern Billed as nouveau vaudeville and performed in what is obviously the living room of the apartment over Danny’s Tavern in Bucktown, Danny’s Show-a-Go-Go! wants desperately to be an evening of sophisticated vaudeville in the vein of the New Variety Theatre or Rob Riley’s Cabaret Rebob. Unfortunately, the show […]
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Phoebe
It’s amazing, the tormented beauty the mind can make–it’s creativity gone awry.
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Gilligan’s Island: The Musical
GILLIGAN’S ISLAND: THE MUSICAL at the Organic Theater There’s something genuinely sad about Gilligan’s Island: The Musical. Bad shows are a dime a dozen, but usually by opening night the authors know their work is bad, even if they don’t know how to make it better. Gilligan’s seems different. I think Sherwood Schwartz, the producer […]
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Chi Lives: Joyce Piven’s life in the theater
Joyce Piven has come to directing theater relatively late in life. Since her undergraduate days at the University of Chicago in the early 50s Piven has found herself again and again in the vanguard of the ongoing evolution of American theater, but usually in the role of performer or teacher. At the U. of C. […]
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Queer Odyssey
SOMEONE ELSE FROM QUEENS IS QUEER Richard Elovich at Gallery 2 November 14 William S. Burroughs is only one of the many characters Richard Elovich portrays in Someone Else From Queens Is Queer, though the protagonist is someone called Felix the Kat. Elovich begins the performance in the persona of Felix’s beloved, dashing Gordie Benjamin, […]
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Exercises in Absence/Rock ‘n’ Roll Imponderable No. 3
Keith Richards: Man Needs a Mate
Posted inFilm
Rock Criticism
ROCK HUDSON’S HOME MOVIES **** (Masterpiece) Directed and written by Mark Rappaport With Rock Hudson and Eric Farr. In the creation of art, the verb is there to authenticate the subject with the same name. To paint is the act of painting. . . . To write becomes the act of writing and of the […]
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Savage in Limbo: A Concert Play/The Two of Them
SAVAGE IN LIMBO: A CONCERT PLAY D & K Productions at Cafe Voltaire THE TWO OF THEM Pure and Simple Productions and Powertap Productions at Cafe Voltaire There is so much to dislike about this John Patrick Shanley play, now being performed by D & K Productions at Cafe Voltaire, that it’s hard to know […]
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Meaning Not Included
IN Curious Theatre Branch In makes you work–I’ve just spent half an hour trying to figure out where to begin with it. This fascinating collaboration between writer Jenny Magnus and designer Liz Payne has no theme to tie its many dispar- ate elements together. Instead the suggestive material invites the spectator to in essence “finish” […]
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South Suburban Theater Festival
All the world’s a stage–even the world south of the city, where six professional, semiprofessional, and nonprofessional performing groups have banded together to request the attention of area audiences. This first-ever effort of its kind, conceived and coordinated by Michael Sean McCarthy, features 10 different productions in repertory through November 29, with shows Tuesdays-Saturdays at […]
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Shrubtown
SHRUBTOWN Circle Theatre Mark Stopeck is a sales rep for the Wednesday Journal in Oak Park. One day while watching The Bullwinkle Show on TV he thought, “Gee, that looks like fun,” so he went to the editor and asked if he could draw a comic strip for the paper. The editor agreed, but only […]
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Journalists of a Certain Age/Foxhole Phobia
Journalists of a Certain Age Tribune rewrite man Jerry Crimmins has just published an elegiac thriller; we read it with the oddest feeling he’d done some digging through our ego. Meet Crimmins’s hero when you’re young and you’re apt to be struck by the lone wolf side of this newspaper operative. Sam Nash is a […]