But you ARE a woman, Brutus
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. Babes with Blades Theater Company 3/9-4/20 Raven Theater West Stage 6157 N. Clark St. Chicago. Babes with Blades Theater Company has a mystique about them: all...
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Coriolanus by William Shakespeare In a twilight world of ropes and suspended sticks, amid eye obscuring mist and the constant throb of drums, two mortal enemies meet in battle and friendship for...
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Maria/Stewart By Jason Grote Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont Ave Chicago. 4/5-5/5 It is a sad thing when an nonhuman entity garners more sympathy than flesh and blood people in a play. Maria/Stewart...
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Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward Piccolo Theater 600 Main St Evanston Il /Inside the Evanston/Main Metra Station 3/22-5/11 The Piccolo Theater is a cozy space. Their lobby is a tiny cafe that might have...
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Completeness by Itamar Moses Theater Wit 1229 Belmont Ave, Chicago. March 26nd through May 4th $30 (standard) $20 (twenty somethings with ID) $15 (21 and under with ID) The base formula is...
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The Whale by Samuel D. Hunter Victory Gardens Theater 2433 N. Lincoln Ave 4/5-5/5 In a small town in Northern Idaho, a six hundred pound man is on a mission. Charlie (Dale Calanda), an online...
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An Evening With Beckett May 2-12 Shattered Globe Theater Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont Theoretically, this should be an event to go down in history. Rick Cluchey, close friend and protege of the...
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The Evolution of Sherlock Homes
The adventures of Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes have, over the past hundred years, become modern myths. Every storyteller has a new spin on them to pitch over the fire, or page or screen. They have...
View ArticleA Crock Pot of Gothic Humor
The Mystery of Irma Vep Ah the dreadful Penny Dreadful. It’s like a crockpot: you can throw whatever you want in there and come up with something reasonably palatable. Thus goes The Mystery of Irma...
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The Goddess In his program notes director and adaptor John Mossman describes the mid twentieth century fascination of celebrity, that golden world of Hollywood, thusly, “ Time and again, the dream...
View ArticleCheep Goods in a Gorgeous Gown
The North China Lover A note to storytellers: just because your tale has a love story, doesn’t necessarily render it important. In order to titillate, to capture our imagination, love stories need to...
View ArticleMighty Women, Muddy Drama
Unwilling and Hostile Instruments: 100 Years of Extraordinary Chicago Women Taking its title from a turn of the century misogynist, who doubted the power of women to change anything, Unwilling and...
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Love in the time of the Keytar
The Wedding Singer There is a surprisingly large stockade of pop-movies-made-broadway-musicals-with-improving-moral-underpinnings floating about out there. Some, like Hairspray, are very well done, and...
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Heist Play – Ruckus Theatre What comes to mind at the words Film Noir? Humphrey Bogart in a trench coat? The shadow of a well coiffed dame on the office window of a PI? Shootouts in back allies? The...
View ArticleThe Game gets Vicious when the Stakes are Small
The Sovereign Statement “All Nations are Narratives”, states Bilal Dardai the creator, writer and puppet master of The Sovereign Statement. Most nations have grand and gilded narratives shared by...
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Sing in me muse of the rage of Achilles
An Iliad – Court Theatre This is what Theater is supposed to be. Or rather, this is how Theater was at it’s outset and what the best productions have rediscovered and reincorporated down through the...
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Pride and Prejudice Is there any Felicity in the world superior to this? To watch the wit and wisdom, the naughtiness and niceties of Jane Austen, distilled by Joseph Hanreddy and J.R. Sullivan to a...
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A murderous story of murderous stories
The Pillowman -Innate Theatre As we enter the tiny space of the Side Projects Theater we are greeted by sinister sounds of electric buzzing, spinning saws, and what sounds to be a lightsaber. We are...
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Grimm never looked so Good
The Dead Prince – Strange Tree Group Many people forget how dark fairy tales are supposed to be. They were made for instruction and nothing captures our attention quite like death, danger, and...
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Street Justice: Condition Red Or: Vengeance wheres a Mullet Imagine every trope you can think of from 80’s action movies. brutal, bruce lee inspired hand to hand combat, car-fu, double crossing East...
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