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Shinn's 'Teddy Ferrara' stuck on campus
One of the problems with plays dominated by collegiate sexuality — and there is no shortage of graphic undergraduate sex in Christopher Shinn's “Teddy Ferrara” — is that if you are a few years removed from that particular time of...
Tags: Suicide, New York University, Teaching and Learning, Advice Columns and Columnists, Students
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Michael Hainey book raises questions about truth versus family
Say you had a family secret. A juicy one. The kind that speaks volumes about families. And you wrote a book about it. But your family hates the book. Or, at the very least, potentially feels embarrassment from it. Would you still release that book?...
Tags: Other Desert Cities (play), Literature, Julian Barnes, Harold Washington Library Center, Book
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NU 'Grapes of Wrath' is justice delayed for composer Gordon
"The Grapes of Wrath," composer Ricky Ian Gordon and librettist Michael Korie's operatic adaptation of John Steinbeck's sprawling 1939 novel about dispossessed Oklahoma sharecroppers during the Great Depression, has enjoyed a degree of instant success...Tags: Steppenwolf Theatre, Northwestern University, Music Industry, Grapes, Colleges and Universities
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Tony-winning set designer Todd Rosenthal wows again at Steppenwolf
"Whoa." That's what the guy who sat behind me said as I settled into a matinee performance of "The Motherf***er With the Hat" at the Steppenwolf Theatre recently: "Whoa, will you look at that? That is something. That is large. I wonder what that'll do?...
Tags: Clybourne Park (play), Willem Dafoe, Bruce Norris, Entertainment Events, Mark Ruffalo
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Griffin Theatre's plans for new home remain stranded
Tribune Theater CriticSome big new theaters cost tens of millions of dollars — even more than a decade ago, the new Goodman Theatre in the Loop cost $46 million. The new Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis cost in the region of $125 million in 2006. In Washington, D.C., the...Tags: Washington, DC, Michigan Avenue, Water Tower, John Morris, Richard M. Daley
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Rachel Rockwell to make her Goodman debut with 'Brigadoon'
Rachel Rockwell, the Chicago director whose career has flourished at such musical theaters as the Drury Lane in Oakbrook Terrace and the Paramount Theatre in Aurora, is to make her Goodman Theatre debut in the summer of 2014. Rockwell will direct a new,...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Music Theater, Music, Entertainment, Theater
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As playwrights age, so do perspectives
In his younger days, playwright Jon Robin Baitz was known for his angry young characters, usually in conflict with stubborn members of the older generation. Those bristling, indignant, furious youth fill such plays as "A Fair Country" (produced in Chicago...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Steppenwolf Theatre, Aliens (movie), Other Desert Cities (play), Broadway Theater
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A family's well-kept secrets unspool in the desert
Any writer knows the temptation of using one's family for material. They're immediate and present. Their influence is intense and fundamental. Writers usually justify the act on the grounds of authorial honesty: Since the issues in one's life are forged,...
Tags: Stacy Keach, Other Desert Cities (play), Linda Kimbrough, Manhattan (New York City), Celebrities
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Dinosaur-size debt
For many people the defining moment in the Field Museum's recent history was the bid at a 1997 auction that made Chicago home to the Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton known as Sue. But that choice could have far less impact on the Field's future than another...
Tags: Princeton University, Harvard University, Arts, Science and Technology, Media Industry
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Hartford's 'Water By The Spoonful' Opens Off-Broadway
The Hartford CourantIs it possible to fall in love with all the characters in a play, even those who see themselves as less-than-worthy members of the human race? And then, after more than a year, fall in love with them all over again? That's what happened to me with...Tags: Apple iPad, Entertainment Events, USA Today, Other Desert Cities (play), The Huffington Post
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New Play Developing For Quiara Alegria Hudes ("Water By the Spoonful")
HJust a few things that didnt make it to the main stiory of the "Water by the Spoonful" opening in New York earlier this week. Quiara Alegria Hudes, the playwrioght -- who is about to giuve birth to a baby boy in a few weeks -- is prepping for the...Tags: Eugene O'Neill
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Winter theater 2013: 10 shows for the cold, from classic 'Caesar' to 'Other Desert Cities'
With Scrooge back under wraps, it's time for the 2013 winter theater season to begin in earnest. There's an especially strong slate of classical works opening between now and the end of March, but the offerings also are as diverse as ever. Among the...
Tags: Austin Pendleton, Entertainment Events, Other Desert Cities (play), Music Industry, Disconnect (movie)
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