Tag: Vol. 33 No. 33

MAKING PORN, at Theatre Building Chicago. Producer Caryn Horwitz brings this 1995 cash cow back to Chicago regularly, where the title and the show’s nudity ensure an audience. This tour of Ronnie Larsen’s literal expose of San Francisco’s gay video porn scene in the 1980s also features sweet-faced, hard-muscled Falcon Studios phenom Matthew Rush as […]

It’s All True Timeline Theatre Company An extraordinary episode in American theater occurred on June 16, 1937. A nondescript truck arrived at about 6 PM in midtown Manhattan to deliver a beat-up piano. It had been ordered by Orson Welles and John Houseman–then directors of the burgeoning theater company Project 891–for opening night of Marc […]

THE CHORUS REBELLION, Breadline Theatre Group. Paul Kampf’s 1999 parody of Greek tragedy suggested the irreverent anarchy of classical lit students on a postfinals spree. Recent improvements in Breadline Theatre’s facilities make this newly revised production more appealing and commercially viable, as if the same rambunctious scholars were now staging their own version of Forbidden […]

CLOUDS, Dog & Pony Theatre Company, at the Chicago Cultural Center. It’s hard to believe there’s a connection between Benefactors and Noises Off! The former play is a funny-as-a-heart-attack satire on liberal good intentions in postimperial England, the latter a door-slamming farce about a theater troupe touring in a door-slamming farce. Two different sensibilities entirely, […]