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Donuts, Catered Affairs and Experimental Cabaret: A Chicago Storefront Theatre Update

Robert Bullen | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Porchlight Music Theatre, Theatre, Theater, Musicals, Tracy Letts, Chicago, Mary-Arrchie Theatre, TUTA Theatre Chicago, Chicago Around Town, Chicago News
Robert Bullen

With 200-plus theatre companies in Chicago, at any given day there is always something to see -- particularly if you've a daring theatrical appetite. So where to start?

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Party Like Its 2010! Meryl Streep And Julia Roberts Team For 'August: Osage County'

Posted 04.17.2012

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Back in October of 2010, the Internet was abuzz with news that Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts would join forces to bring "August: Osage County" to the...

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Got ART?

Elysabeth Alfano | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Jon Langford, Dj, Albany Park Theatre, Steve Dawson, Improv, Theater, Race, Music, Painting, Burkeman, Art, Tracy Letts, Nicholas Barron, Chicago, Theatre, Fear No Art, Gallery, Comedy, Chicago Around Town, David Mamet, Chicago News
Elysabeth Alfano

Rene Romero Schuler's solo show at the Jennifer Norback Fine Art Gallery is up through the end of the month and shows incredible sensitivity to the female state; the outer image and the more ephemeral internal spirit.

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Putting the Eat in Theatre

Bess Rowen | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Theatre, Food, Theater, Thanksgiving, August: Osage County, Dinner Scene, Tracy Letts, The Rituals of Dinner, Arts News
Bess Rowen

It's that time of year again. Thanksgiving is almost upon us, and as I thought about an appropriate and timely topic for this week, I kept coming back to the function of food in theatre.

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Live from Toronto Film Festival: Wednesday 9.14.11

Marshall Fine | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Rupert Everett, Rob Corddry, Jonathan Pryce, Woody Harrelson, Juno Temple, Toronto International Film Festival, Movies, Thomas Haden Church, The Messenger, Matthew McConaughey, William Friedkin, Robin Wright, Jennifer Garner, Killer Joe, Hysteria, World?S Greatest Dad, Marshall Fine Commentary, Ty Burrell, Anne Heche, Cynthia Nixon, Hugh Dancy, August Osage County, Butter, Alicia Silverstone, Joel Murray, Ned Beatty, Oren Moverman, God Bless America, Sleeping Dogs Lie, Bug, Oscar, Bobcat Goldthwait, Ice Cube, Marshall Fine Blog, Gina Gershon, Sigourney Weaver, Marshall Fine, Michele Bachmann, Emile Hirsch, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Tracy Letts, American Idol, Rampart, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Given the size of the Toronto Film Festival and the goals I have when I'm here (primarily to see movies that will be released so I can bank reviews fo...

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Woolf Meets High Expectations

Robert Loerzel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Edward Albee, Tracy Letts, Steppenwolf, Chicago, Steppenwolf Theatre, Amy Morton, Chicago News
Robert Loerzel

Directed by Pam MacKinnon, Steppenwolf's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? lives up to the high expectations.

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They Are Women, Hear Them Roar

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Patrick Dennis, Crowded Fire Theatre Company, Annie Sullivan, Three Tall Women, John Patrick Shanley, Wendy Wasserstein, Clare Booth Luce, William Gibson, Auntie Mame, Maria Callas, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Five Lesbian Brothers, Master Class, Anthony Clarvoe, The Life, Jay Presson Allen, Eric Overmeyer, Cy Coleman, Edward Albee, Eve Ensler, Paul Rudnick, The Sisters Rosensweig, Marilee Talkington, James Kirkwood, Michael Storm, 70 Girls 70, Kander & Ebb, August Osage County, Jane Martin, Chekhov, The Killing of Sister George, Frank Marcus, Night Mother, The Secretaries, The Vagina Monologues, Actors Equity, The Women, The Miracle Worker, The New Century, Three Sisters, Doubt, Marsha Norman, On the Verge, Anton in Show Business, Don Groggins, Show and Tell, Marissa Wolf, Terrence McNally, Tracy Letts, Miss Margardia?S Way, Symmetry Theatre, Helen Keller, Nunsens, Non-Equity, Theatrefirst, Legends, Deuce, Arts News
George Heymont

I was intrigued by Symmetry Theatre's claim that fewer good roles are written for women, I found myself wondering if people might not be aware of the variety of plays that do indeed have meaty roles for female characters.

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The Definition of Badass: "Holy Sh*t Theatre" Take Two

Lauren Gunderson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Lion King, Hamlet, Theatre, Julie Taymor, Macbeth, Tracy Letts, Wooster Group, Calshakes, Holy Sh*T Theatre, Arts News
Lauren Gunderson

Holy Sh*t Theatre is like a lot of art: you know it when you see/feel it.

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Holy Sh*t Theatre: An Urgent Age of Badassery

Lauren Gunderson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Theatre, Wooly Mammoth Theater, Macbeth, Tracy Letts, Shakespeare, California Shakespeare Theatre, The O'Neill Theatre Center, Arts News
Lauren Gunderson

2010-09-08-macbeth.jpg American theatre needs to proclaim an age of Holy Sh*t Theatre. In the vein of "funny or die": give me badass or give me bored.

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"August: Osage County" Playwright Tracy Letts on The Interview Show

Mark Bazer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mark Bazer

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On the Culture Front: Oliver Parker, Dusk Rings a Bell, and Le Grand Macabre

Chris Kompanek | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Philharmonic, Cnn, The Economist, Stephen Belber, Paul Sparks, Kate Walsh, Elizabeth Meriwether, Tracy Letts, John Larroquette, New York News
Chris Kompanek

Elizabeth Meriwether's plays make me excited to go to the theater. Her dialogue is effortless and often very funny without being frivolous.

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Stage Door: Superior Donuts, The Understudy, Vamps

Fern Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Theater, Michael McKean, Broadway, Cabaret, Off-Broadway, Tracy Letts, Entertainment, Chicago, New York News
Fern Siegel

When August: Osage County drama burst on Broadway, it trumpeted the arrival of Tracy Letts, who won the Pulitzer. By contrast, his follow-up effort, Superior Donuts, is a quiet meditation.

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Broadway Looks at Racism in the Obama Era

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: E. Y. Harburg, Shrek, Broadway Plays and Musicals, South Pacific, Hamlet, Barack Obama Influence, Oscar Hammerstein, Finian's Rainbow, Memphis, Avenue Q, West Side Story, Jude Law, Race, After Miss Julie, August: Osage County, E.L. Doctorow, Burton Lane, Hair, Racism, In the Heights, Patrick Marber, Tracy Letts, David Mamet, Superior Donuts, Ragtime, New York News
David Finkle

Of the 35 productions running or opening shortly -- including Hamlet and Patrick Marber's After Miss Julie -- at least 10 offerings have a rainbow-coalition hue.

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August: Osage Country: Southern Gothic Soap Sitcom Theatre

Brad Schreiber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: August: Osage County, Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago, Theatre, Broadway, Theater, Tracy Letts, Pulitzer Prize, Entertainment News
Brad Schreiber

One wonders if there is some theatre ordinance that requires every Southern-themed play in this country to deal with incest. It is as if the fear of boring the audience has been taken to the zenith of tawdry complication.

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Bob Dylan Wins Pulitzer Prize

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Thanks to Bob Dylan, rock 'n' roll has finally broken through the Pulitzer wall. Dylan, the most acclaimed and influential songwrite...

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