HAPPY HALLOWEEN from Chicago Stage Review! WEIRD & HAUNTED CHICAGO! Halloween in the Time of Cholera – a set on Flickr Undercity.org[…]
Month: October 2008
Images of a Haunting Stage
By Venus Zarris Uptown Theater Photo Essay By Debbie Dodge Chicago is filled with storied of haunted places and haunted theaters. From tiny black boxes to lavish, large scale venues, stories are told of strange[…]
Stories from a Haunted Stage
By Venus Zarris My love of Halloween theatrics started when I was quite young. There was one particular Halloween when my parents decided to have a trick waiting for the costumed neighborhood kids instead of[…]
The Brothers Karamazov – REVIEW
By Venus Zarris Lookingglass Theatre’s beguiling The Brothers Karamazov is a wonderful example of theaters invigorating magical powers. The three-acts (3 +hours) of this play feel shorter than many 80 or 90-minute one-act productions proving[…]
Celebrity Row – REVIEW
By Venus Zarris In 1887 Lord Acton wrote, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” Playwright Itamar Moses takes the fact that in the late 1990s[…]
THIS COUNTRY IS F$CKED
One more night, two more chances to see “This Country’s F$cked” – the political variety show unlike anything GayCo has done before! First, you have to make it past the befuddled protestors out front – and the[…]
Politics on Stage
By Venus Zarris Poised on the verge of quite possibly this country’s most critically important and historically significant presidential election, let’s take a look at some of the perspectives that theater in Chicago has offered[…]
One Street. Three Blocks. THREE GREAT PLAYS! 4 STARS EACH!
Now Playing On Glenwood! By Venus Zarris Jacques Brel’s Lonesome Losers Of The Night (CLOSING THIS WEEKEND!) You enter the wonderfully quaint little venue of No Exit Café, far north of the hustle and bustle[…]
***4-Theatre Flex Pass***
When you think of Chicago Theater your first thoughts might go to The Loop. Between The Goodman Theatre on Dearborn and the big commercial venues that produce the Broadway in Chicago product, the other options[…]
A Devil in God’s House
Tiny Production’s A Devil in God’s House receives two Black Theatre Alliance Award nominations for 2008 Chicago, Illinois, October 2008: Tiny Production, under the direction of L’Tisha A. Vaughn and[…]