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'The Illusion' at Court Theatre: Life is a dream, is a dream, is a dream
The Theater LoopTHEATER REVIEW: "The Illusion" ★★★ Through April 11 at Court Theatre, 5535 S. Ellis Ave.; Running time: 2 hours, 25 minutes; Tickets: $38-56 at 773-753-4472. We’re all familiar with the play within a play, as when Hamlet’s players enact a...... -
Q&A: Nick Offerman on his Chicago days
Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between Nick Offermanand his “Parks and Recreation” character Ron Swanson. Both talk in a slow, deep, deadpan manner and are unabashedly masculine. And, like Swanson, Offerman is an expert...
Tags: Chicago Cubs, Entertainment, TBS (tv network), Amy Poehler, Wrigleyville
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75 achievements Oscar forgot
Tribune movie criticWhen the Oscar nominations come out Tuesday, there are bound to be cries of injustice -- and in many cases, those charges will have merit. Can anyone really defend the exclusion from the Oscar nominee list in various years of movies such as "Some Like...Tags: Toshiro Mifune, Mississippi, James Dean, Jean Renoir, New York
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Christopher Shinn's "Now Or Later" Gets U.S. Premiere At Huntington
Hartford CourantChristopher Shinn's political drama, "Now or Later," will have its U.S. premiere at Boston's Huntington Theatre Company this fall. Michael Wilson, former artistic director of Hartford Stage, will direct the play which runs Oct. 12 to Nov. 10 at the...Tags: Ralph Ellison, Hartford Stage, Entertainment, Michael Wilson, Lorraine Hansberry
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Barney Rosset dies at 89; publisher fought censorship
Barney Rosset, the renegade founder of Grove Press who fought groundbreaking legal battles against censorship and introduced American readers to such provocative writers as Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco and Jean Genet, died Tuesday in...Tags: Hugh Hefner, Edward Albee, Marguerite Duras, U.S. Supreme Court, University of California, Los Angeles
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Jerry Adler Remembers Liv's Mama, Marlene, Zero, Rex and George S. Kaufman
![In Sunday's Arts Section of<strong> The Hartford Courant</strong>, I write about <strong>Jerry Adler</strong>, who is featured as an actor in the premiere of the <strong>Mike Reiss </strong>comedy <strong>"I'm Connecticut"</strong> at the <strong>Harriet Jorgensen Theatre </strong>on the UConn campus, a production of <strong>Connecticut Repertory Theatre.</strong>](http://www.courant.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-12/177262400-02105515.jpg "In Sunday's Arts Section of<strong> The Hartford Courant</strong>, I write about <strong>Jerry Adler</strong>, who is featured as an actor in the premiere of the <strong>Mike Reiss </strong>comedy <strong>"I'm Connecticut\"</strong> at the <strong>Harriet Jorgensen Theatre </strong>on the UConn campus, a production of <strong>Connecticut Repertory Theatre.</strong>")
Hartford CourantIn Sunday's Arts Section of The Hartford Courant, I write about Jerry Adler, who is featured as an actor in the premiere of the Mike Reiss comedy "I'm Connecticut" at the Harriet Jorgensen Theatre on the UConn campus, a production of Connecticut Repertory...Tags: John Gielgud, Entertainment, Marlene Dietrich, Music, George S. Kaufman
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Hometown 'Grease' and Rahm in the house: The big theater stories of 2011
Phew, 2011 was quite a year in Chicago theater. As the year comes to a close, ready for a quick tour back through the newsworthy highlights?
The Black Ensemble Theater bowed a gorgeous, $19 million new home on the North Side. Stage 773 on Belmont...Tags: Grease (movie), Oprah Winfrey, Paramount Pictures, Lanford Wilson, Navy Pier
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Pamuk's Politicized Prize
'THERE IS NO SUCH THING," George Orwell once said, "as a genuinely nonpolitical literature." That probably comes as news to millions of Danielle Steel fans. Still, if Orwell had only tacked on the word "award" to his aphorism, that 1946 statement would...Tags: Austria, Crimes, French Literature, Government, National Government
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Timothy Douglas' plans for 'shaking down' Remy Bumppo
!["Well, let's be honest," said Timothy Douglas, over a coffee in Evanston the other day. "There aren't many people who look like me running theater companies that look like Remy Bumppo."](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-08/64038803-17093605.jpg ""Well, let's be honest,\" said Timothy Douglas, over a coffee in Evanston the other day. \"There aren't many people who look like me running theater companies that look like Remy Bumppo.\"")
"Well, let's be honest," said Timothy Douglas, over a coffee in Evanston the other day. "There aren't many people who look like me running theater companies that look like Remy Bumppo."
Douglas, the new artistic director of that very Chicago company, was...Tags: Celebrities, Minority Groups, Human Interest, New York, David Hare
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At last, Peter Sellars will play at the Met
![Watching Peter Sellars rehearse is to observe a man possessed. Last week at the Metropolitan Opera House, L.A.'s reknowned theater director was fine-tuning "Nixon in China," which opens Wednesday. The new production of the John Adams opera, about the pre-Watergate president's historic meeting with Chairman Mao Zedong in 1972, will mark, at long last, Sellars' debut at the Met. It will be <a href="http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/broadcast/hd_events_next.aspx">broadcast live</a> in movie theaters worldwide Feb. 12.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-01/59062226-28164158.jpg "Watching Peter Sellars rehearse is to observe a man possessed. Last week at the Metropolitan Opera House, L.A.'s reknowned theater director was fine-tuning "Nixon in China,\" which opens Wednesday. The new production of the John Adams opera, about the pre-Watergate president's historic meeting with Chairman Mao Zedong in 1972, will mark, at long last, Sellars' debut at the Met. It will be <a href=\"http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/broadcast/hd_events_next.aspx\">broadcast live</a> in movie theaters worldwide Feb. 12.")
Watching Peter Sellars rehearse is to observe a man possessed. Last week at the Metropolitan Opera House, L.A.'s reknowned theater director was fine-tuning "Nixon in China," which opens Wednesday. The new production of the John Adams opera, about the pre-...Tags: Philip Seymour Hoffman, China, James Earl Jones, Human Interest, Dmitri Shostakovich
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In Chicago, marquee directors at theaters with barely a sign out front
Directing for the theater, like most professions, has a hierarchy. You do well in the minor leagues and you move up. Or you get a lucky break — maybe a mentor gives you a chance, or some project suddenly turns into an unexpected smash hit —...Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Arts and Culture
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