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Stephen Eich resigns as Pasadena Playhouse executive director
Culture MonsterStephen Eich is resigning after 2 1/2 years as executive director of the Pasadena Playhouse. He helped see the company through a financial crisis that included an eight-month shutdown, bankruptcy proceedings and a return to stability.... -
'Detroit' to play Playwrights Horizons
"Detroit," the well-received new play by Lisa D' Amour that premiered at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago last year under the direction of Austin Pendleton, will make its New York bow at Playwrights Horizons in that non-profit theater's 2012-13 season,...Tags: Theater, London Theatre, Entertainment Events, Austin Pendleton, Entertainment
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New artistic curators at Theatre on the Lake
The Chicago Park District's Theatre on the Lake announced Tuesday that its popular summer program has two new "artistic creators" in Michael Patrick Thornton and Meghan Beals McCarthy. Thornton is the artistic director of the Gift Theatre; McCarthy is...Tags: Chicago Park District, Arts and Culture
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Steppenwolf publicist exits
David Rosenberg, the longtime publicist for the Steppenwolf Theatre, said Wednesday that he's leaving the theater in coming weeks. Rosenberg, a highly-regarded press agent and a former producer at WGN TV, said he plans to take some time off and then move...Tags: WGN
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Maggie Daley 1943-2011: Chicago's longtime first lady
Maggie Daley, who dedicated herself to children's issues and the arts while also zealously guarding her family's privacy during 22 years as Chicago's first lady, died on Thursday, Nov. 24, more than nine years after she was diagnosed with breast cancer....Tags: Marriage, Arts, Obituaries, Trips and Vacations, Diseases and Illnesses
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New artistic director at Actors Theatre of Louisville
Actors Theatre of Louisville said Wendesday that it has hired Les Waters as its new artistic director. Waters, who has directed several times at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, has been the associate artistic director at the Berkeley...Tags: Arts and Culture
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2011 FALL THEATER GUIDE
New theaters. Renovated playhouses. Hot dramas. Nervous new artistic directors. Stephen Sondheim and his “Follies.” A celebration of Stephen Schwartz, a dissection of Mark Rothko, and a look at the tragedy that befell the Amish of...Tags: Fine Arts, Theater, Eugene O'Neill, Victory Gardens Theatre, Goodman Theatre
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50 SHOWS FOR FALL
As we bid farewell to the Summer of Swelter, it's a grand time for pulling up the appointment app on your smart phone (or pulling out the day planner, if you're a traditionalist) and setting aside some play dates with the hottest shows in town.
BIG DEALS...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Theater, Goodman Theatre, Mark Rothko, Arts
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Reg Rogers is misbehavin', to good effect
![It was evident from the moment Reg Rogers stepped onstage in "Measure for Measure" in Central Park this summer that he wasn't your typical Shakespearean actor.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-09/64566868-09174044.jpg "It was evident from the moment Reg Rogers stepped onstage in "Measure for Measure\" in Central Park this summer that he wasn't your typical Shakespearean actor.")
It was evident from the moment Reg Rogers stepped onstage in "Measure for Measure" in Central Park this summer that he wasn't your typical Shakespearean actor.
As the acid-tongued Lucio in the Bard's comedy, Rogers quipped, cast a wry eye and generally...Tags: Dudley Moore, Comedy (genre), Nathan Lane, Sharon Lawrence, Entertainment
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The evolving images of 9/11
![The first screening of "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" came just weeks after the attacks of Sept. 11. The movie had been in the works for years, the first in a trilogy based on novels that had been written decades earlier, of course, by an Englishman named J.R.R. Tolkien during Hitler's rise to power and World War II. And yet the first minute of the film delivered a queasy jolt of immediacy, a chill of recognition. It opened with no image, and very faint background music, little but a black screen and Cate Blanchett's mournful voice, reciting what sounded like, that autumn day, either a prayer or the most poetic 9/11 editorial no one had written yet:](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-09/64604077-11111847.jpg "The first screening of "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring\" came just weeks after the attacks of Sept. 11. The movie had been in the works for years, the first in a trilogy based on novels that had been written decades earlier, of course, by an Englishman named J.R.R. Tolkien during Hitler's rise to power and World War II. And yet the first minute of the film delivered a queasy jolt of immediacy, a chill of recognition. It opened with no image, and very faint background music, little but a black screen and Cate Blanchett's mournful voice, reciting what sounded like, that autumn day, either a prayer or the most poetic 9/11 editorial no one had written yet:")
The first screening of "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" came just weeks after the attacks of Sept. 11. The movie had been in the works for years, the first in a trilogy based on novels that had been written decades earlier, of course,...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Transformers: Dark of the Moon (movie), Arts, 2012 (movie), Tony Kushner
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This fall, a Black Ensemble Theater transformed
Jackie Taylor, the founder and artistic director of Chicago's Black Ensemble Theater, is staring at an utterly transformative fall.
On Nov. 18, the $19 million new Black Ensemble Theater will open at the hitherto moribund 4450 North Clark St.,...Tags: Theater, Goodman Theatre, Arts, Ticketmaster, Chicago Shakespeare Theater
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Sep 11, 2011
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Sep 15, 2011
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