Kevin Kline may have lampooned the idea in the movie Soapdish, but two of the world’s great theatrical innovators actually staged one-man versions of Hamlet last year. Texas-born Theater of Images guru Robert Wilson premiered his Hamlet at Houston’s Alley Theatre in May, while Quebec’s Robert Lepage (star attraction of Chicago’s last International Theatre Festival […]
Tag: Vol. 25 No. 18
Issue of Feb. 8 – 14, 1996
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Not Much of a Lot/Building Jobs For Women
What Can Be Wedged Into a Sliver of Lincoln Park
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Jellyeye
When I was a kid watching the Raspberry Day parade in Hopkins, Minnesota, I always loved the drum-and-bugle corps best because they shook me right up the middle, from the bottom of my sneakers to the top of my baking head. Jellyeye also plays percussion loud–but the eight-member troupe does a lot besides. Like wear […]
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Ravenscroft
Ravenscroft, Pendulum Theatre Company, at the Athenaeum Theatre. Don Nigro’s play is a Sleuth-style puzzler that scatters more red herrings than a fishmonger in Finland: the handsome handyman at the Ravenscroft estate was recently killed by a fall down the stairs of the main house, only months after Mr. Ravens-croft met his end in the […]
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Julie Wilson
JULIE WILSON If you prefer icy dry irony to pop sentimentality for your Valentine’s music, don’t miss Julie Wilson, cabaret’s coolest queen, when she hits town next week after a two-year absence. A master of the sprechstimme style, which fuses singing and speech into an indivisible whole, this musical-theater veteran turns songs by the likes […]
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Fareed Haque Quartet
FAREED HAQUE QUARTET I don’t think you can play the guitar much better than Fareed Haque. On both electric and classical instruments he strikes each note with perfect attack and timing no matter what the speed–and damn the genre. His music contains plenty of genres, from flamenco to jazz-rock fusion, Indian music to pure American […]
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The Snarkout Boys & the Avocado of Death
Fans of TV’s Star Trek: The Next Generation know that Mr. Data, the ultralogical android played by Brent Spiner, took on the role of Sherlock Holmes in several episodes. On Monday Spiner portrays another Sherlock surrogate, this time on the stage: Osgood Sigerson (a Holmes alias, as Arthur Conan Doyle buffs know), the hero of […]
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News of the Weird
Lead Story Latest nicotine urges: Connecticut inmate Frank W. Banks, assigned to a no-smoking prison, was convicted in December of mailing harassing letters to a judge. Banks said he thought threats via the U.S. mail would cause him to be sent to a federal prison where he could smoke. And in November three stranded Alaska […]
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Abba-Rama!
Abba-Rama!, Factory Theater. There’s something terribly wrong with the state of modern theater (or with me) when a poorly sung, sloppily choreographed, thrown-together musical revue is a great deal more entertaining than what can be found on the stages of some of the city’s most accomplished and ambitious companies. Then again, why criticize a theater […]
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Fashion Statements: teen team makes the scene
We met Evelyn Haddad and Norma Hijazin, both 14, at the Sulzer Library. Norma was working out a family tree as homework, Evelyn was backing her up. The close friends and distant cousins wore their team spirit with pride. But our Fashion Commentators wanted play-by-play accuracy. The two girls’ two-play look started the day as […]
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In Print: voices of invisible men
“When you say “young black men’ everybody responds to that a certain way,” says Rohan Preston. “There’s a knee-jerk response equating black masculinity with violence and sexual deviance.” But he and Daniel Wideman are challenging that stereotype with a diverse anthology of poems, plays, short stories, essays, letters, and interviews called Soulfires: Young Black Men […]
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Petty Crime
January 8, 6:30 AM, 900 block of East 54th. Theft. Frozen meat stolen from elementary school cafeteria, including 20 pounds of chicken parts, 20 pounds of ground beef, and 20 pounds of Canadian bacon. January 16, 10:15 pm, 2800 block of West 65th. Robbery. Man with gun held up pizza deliveryman, taking $38 and two […]