- Blogs, Bleader, May 10, 2013
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Remembering Robert Sickinger, a pioneer of off-Loop theater
The Hull-House Theater director who inspired David Mamet and Jim Jacobs has died in Florida at age 86.
- Performing Arts, Theater Review, May 2, 2013
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Young guys attract old dolls in Pal Joey
Rodgers and Hart's 1940 musical, now in a new revival by Porchlight Music Theatre, pushed Broadway's buttons—and its boundaries.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 5, 2013
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An example of the late Roger Ebert's grace
Remembering the late film critic's reaction to Siskel & Ebert Save Chicago
- Performing Arts, Theater Review, Feb 27, 2013
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Wartime hijinks, presented with Improbable Frequency
A comic verse musical set in WWII, Strawdog Theatre Company puts the bard back in bombardment.
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Oct 3, 2012
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Metamorphoses transformed
Mary Zimmerman's 1998 masterpiece is warmer in revival
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, May 11, 2012
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His life and times
Concurrent stagings of Tick, Tick . . . Boom! and Rent play out the passion of Jonathan Larson
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Feb 29, 2012
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Small is functional
Too intimate for Broadway, A Catered Affair gets right-sized by Porchlight Music Theatre
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Feb 2, 2012
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Beethoven and Quasimodo at an academic conference
Two famous figures pursue an impossible sound in Theater Oobleck's The Hunchback Variations Opera
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Jul 21, 2011
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Chicago Folks Operetta cultivates The Rose of Stambul
With a new translation and a run at Chopin Theatre, Chicago Folks Operetta cultivates Leo Fall's 1916 blossom, The Rose of Stambul
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 11, 2011
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In Memory of Patricia Hart
Costume designer Patricia Hart dead at 64.
- Movies, Movie Sidebar, Mar 24, 2011
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European Union Film Festival, Week Four
- Movies, Movie Sidebar, Mar 17, 2011
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European Union Film Festival, Week Three
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 10, 2011
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RIP Bella Itkin, Esteemed Acting Teacher at the Goodman School
Bella Itkin, longtime acting teacher at the Goodman School, has passed away at age 90.
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Feb 3, 2011
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Flaccid
Meat, motion don't jibe in Sex With Strangers.
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 31, 2010
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Harry Lennix returns to Pegasus Players for Jan. 3 performance
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 22, 2010
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League of Chicago Theatres Cosponsors Mayoral Debate
League of Chicago Theatres partners on mayoral debate
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Dec 16, 2010
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House of the Dying Son
Political overtones in Edward Albee's early masterpiece, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, continue to resonate
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 9, 2010
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Pegasus Players Team Up With Hull House
Pegasus Players team up with Hull House.
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, Nov 4, 2010
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Hook Grows Up
Lookingglass's twist on J.M. Barrie's classic about eternal youth.
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Oct 21, 2010
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Tennessee's Studs
Tennessee Williams's rueful pretty boys at Artistic Home and the Raven
