Pride Films and Plays Adds Summer Season

Pride Films and Plays Adds Summer Season

Pictured: Pride Arts Center. Photo courtesy of Pride Films and Plays. Pride Films and Plays will fill the summer months before its already announced 2018-19 season with a five-play summer repertory of fully staged plays, according to an announcement today by Executive Director David Zak. Dubbed “PAC Pride Fest,” the...

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Stage Left Puts 18/19 Season on Hold as Leadership Steps Down

Stage Left Puts 18/19 Season on Hold as Leadership Steps Down

Stage Left Theatre has announced that Co-Artistic Directors Jason A. Fleece and Amy Szerlong, as well as Co-Literary Manager Zev Valancy, will be leaving the company as of today. The company will put the brakes on their 2018-2019 season plans in order to focus on the search for new leadership. During the transition...

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theTEN with Lauren Paris

theTEN with Lauren Paris

My dream life career is a naked watercolorist.

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Review: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM at Joffrey Ballet

Review: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM at Joffrey Ballet

Take the overall feeling of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, blend in a little Salvador Dali, a touch of Roger Waters. and Pink Floyd, a pinch of Monty Python, and, as my companion said, “a little Molly,” and you have some idea of the experience of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM.

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Review: RAISED IN CAPTIVITY at Right Brain Project

Review: RAISED IN CAPTIVITY at Right Brain Project

While Right Brain Project’s production of RAISED IN CAPTIVITY has potential, the bare-bones design choices and the lack of trust in Silver’s comedic mastery make much of the experience feel forced rather than funny.

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Broken Nose Announces Cast & Production Staff for THE OPPORTUNITIES OF EXTINCTION

Broken Nose Announces Cast & Production Staff for THE OPPORTUNITIES OF EXTINCTION

(left to right) Echaka Agba, Richard Costes, and Aria Szalai-Raymond Broken Nose Theatre has announced casting for Sam Chanse’s new drama about a couple fleeing to the Mojave Desert in the wake of a social media firestorm. THE OPPORTUNITIES OF EXTINCTION, directed by company member Jen Poulin. THE OPPORTUNITIES OF...

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WATCH: Goodman Makes Production of “2666” Available for Free Streaming

WATCH: Goodman Makes Production of “2666” Available for Free Streaming

Photo: Henry Godinez (Oscar Amalfitano) in the Goodman’s “2666” | Liz Lauren The Goodman Theater’s “2666,” the 2016 production of Chilean author and poet Roberto Bolaño’s novel, co-adapted and co-directed by Robert Falls and Seth Bockley, is now streaming online free of charge at goodmantheatre.org/Watch2666. Live streaming productions present many challenges due to...

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Steppenwolf for Young Adults Announces 18/19 Season

Steppenwolf for Young Adults Announces 18/19 Season

Steppenwolf for Young Adults has announced the two plays and directors that will make up its 2018/19 season.

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The Sweet Definition of Success

The Sweet Definition of Success

Maybe success is best thought of as a verb rather than a noun.

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Review: DISASTER! at Chicago Theatre Workshop

Review: DISASTER! at Chicago Theatre Workshop

Chicago Theatre Workshop’s production is delivered with such joy and comedic skill that it will leave you giddy with laughter.

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