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Month: October 2010
Speed-the-Plow – REVIEW
CLOSING WEEKEND – DON’T MISS! By Venus Zarris American Theatre Company delivers a hysterically intriguing production of Davit Mamet’s 1985 play Speed-the-Plow. This is one of those short but sweet examples of theater at its[…]
Oleanna – REVIEW
By Venus Zarris David Mamet writes a taut cat-and-mouse game of shifting sexual power plays in his 1995 play Oleanna. What starts as a female student visiting her male college writing professor to discuss her[…]
Sunday in the Park with George – REVIEW
By Venus Zarris There are plenty awards given to theater that generate attention. Ultimately awards are subjective and too often they are signs of commercial achievement, rather than artistic merit. The Pulitzer Prize, however, sets[…]
And A Child Shall Lead opening @ Adventure Stage Chicago
And A Child Shall Lead Thirty miles outside Prague lies the city of Terezin, a Nazi-described “Jewish ghetto” and makeshift way station for millions of people awaiting transfer to death camps. Amid such bleak surroundings,[…]
The Water Engine: An American Fable opening @ The Greenhouse Theatre Center
The Water Engine: An American Fable In The Water Engine: An American Fable, an inventor named Charles Lang searches for a patent for his revolutionary engine, which runs exclusively on water and would eliminate the[…]
The War Plays opening @ Athenaeum Theatre
The War Plays It is the fall of 1940 and the Blitz has blasted a hole in the hearts of Londoners, while somewhere across the sea a young couple dances knowing that each passing moment[…]
Sweet Abominations Annual Halloween Exhibition opening @ Gallery Provocateur
Sweet Abominations Annual Halloween Exhibition Celebrating the Dark Arts Opening Cocktail Reception: Saturday, October 30th, 2010 8pm~12am *costumes & creative attire encouraged* $1 donation at door for charity Exhibition Runs: October 30, 2010 through January[…]
Peter Pan (A Play) opening @ Lookingglass Theatre
Peter Pan (A Play) Nationally-known director Amanda Dehnert will direct her adaptation of Peter Pan, the classic tale from J.M. Barrie’s books of the boy who wouldn’t grow up. Bombastic, playful, and darkly comic, Dehnert’s[…]
To Master the Art opening @ TimeLine Theatre Company
To Master the Art Commissioned by TimeLine Theatre Company in 2008 and developed here in 2010, To Master The Art is a look at the lives of Julia and Paul Child as they meet, fall[…]