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At Hypocrites and Victory Gardens, two different ways to take charge
Tribune criticWithin 24 hours last weekend, I watched two artistic directors make their debuts at the artistic helm of two Chicago theater companies: Halena Kays at The Hypocrites and Chay Yew at the Victory Gardens Theater Company. Their opening salvos were striking...Tags: Customs and Tradition, Luigi Pirandello, Customs and Tradition, Celebrities, Harry Houdini
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January 31: Midday Fix - The People Speak, Live
WGN NewsRick Kogan The performance this evening is sold out. To view clips: www.peopleshistory.us Since 2003, Voices of a People's History -- the national non-profit that runs education and performing arts programs based on primary source materials has...Tags: Sandra Oh, Robert Redford, Arts, Film Festivals, Patti Smith
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'Ameriville' now a union show at Victory Gardens
Maria Somma, a spokeswoman for the Actors' Equity union in New York, said Friday morning that the Victory Gardens Theater production of "Ameriville" was now being produced under an Equity contract. Cathy Taylor, a Victory Gardens spokeswoman, confirmed... -
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: David Henry Hwang, Cancer, Celebrities, Chicago Mayor, Steve Martin
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New hire from NYC at Victory Gardens
Victory Gardens Theater said Monday that it has hired Geoffrey Jackson Scott as its new director of new play development.
Although he has a background in Chicago (he was associated with the old Roadworks Productions), Jackson Scott has spent the last... -
It's 'True Blood' versus Homer for Denis O'Hare
Life for Denis O'Hare has changed significantly. Vampires and their ilk took care of that.
O'Hare has always worked as an actor, ever since graduating during an especially fertile period for Northwestern University and arriving on the Chicago theater...Tags: Nathan Lane, Goodman Theatre, Denis O'Hare, Celebrities, American Horror Story (tv program)
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A new stage for South Coast Repertory
Being artistic director of a major regional stage company means you get to give everyone "notes" — theater lingo for putting in your two cents while a play is being readied. Being Marc Masterson, newly arrived as South Coast Repertory's artistic...Tags: Humana Incorporated, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Celebrities, Photography Supplies and Services, Christianity
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Chicago cast in L.A. for 'Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity'
The Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles is not only planning to stage Kristoffer Diaz's "The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity," it says it will do so with two of the original Chicago leads: Usman Ally and Desmin Borges. First produced in 2009 at the...Tags: Chad
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Steppenwolf Theatre adds staffers
Aaron Carter is the new literary manager at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Carter, also a playwright and a longtime player on the Chicago theater scene, served as literary manager of the Victory Gardens Theater for nearly four years. He was closely...Tags: Steppenwolf Theatre, Aaron Carter
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Chay Yew talks about his plans for making Victory Gardens grow
For most of its 37 years of existence, Chicago's Victory Gardens Theater has been synonymous with, and run by, Dennis Zacek and his wife, Marcelle McVay. Beginning this fall, a new artistic director takes over at Victory Gardens, 46-year-old playwright...Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, New York, Music Theater, Chad, Goodman Theatre
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Theater review: 'The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity' at Geffen Playhouse
Culture Monster"The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity," Kristoffer Diaz's play about professional wrestling, identity politics and the corporatization of America, opens at the Geffen Playhouse.... -
Filipino immigrant play 'Magno Rubio' to get L.A. revival
Culture MonsterThe [Inside} the Ford series offers a new translation -- into Tagalog -- of an admired play about Filipino immigrant farm workers in Depression-era California. Two other shows are world premieres....
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