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    Jun 6, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  1. Sandy Shinner no longer associate artistic director at Victory Gardens

    Sandy Shinner, the longtime associate artistic director of the Victory Gardens Theater, has been removed from that position, several sources with knowledge of recent developments at the non-profit Chicago theater said. In a telephone message, Shinner,...

    Tags: Arts and Culture

    2. Aug 31, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  2. This comic's life, sans sleep, in 'Sleepwalk With Me' ★★★

    One night in a La Quinta motel room, comedian and storyteller Mike Birbiglia jumped through a second-story window while acting out one of his dreams, ending up in the hospital with a leg full of broken glass. Well, it's a living. Since then he has turned his adventures in sleep disorders into fodder for his stand-up act, an Off-Broadway solo show, an excerpt on "This American Life," a live comedy album, the title story in his best-selling comic memoir and now, a trim and effective feature film, which Birbiglia co-directed with co-writer Seth Barrish. The only thing left for "Sleepwalk With Me" is to be turned into a Broadway musical, which would require a title change to "Sleepwalk with Me!"
    One night in a La Quinta motel room, comedian and storyteller Mike Birbiglia jumped through a second-story window while acting out one of his dreams, ending up in the hospital with a leg full of broken glass. Well, it's a living. Since then he has...

    Tags: James Rebhorn, Lauren Ambrose, Theater, Music Box Theatre, Music

    3. May 8, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  3. Commercial musical 'Signs of Life' coming to Biograph

    The peak fall weeks at the Biograph Theatre, 2433 N. Lincoln Ave., won't be occupied by a Victory Gardens Theater production, but a small commercial musical  set during the era of the Holocaust and concerning a ghetto and concentration camp located in what is now the Czech Republic, Theresienstadt, which the Nazis used for propaganda purposes by showcasing the cultural life therein.
    The peak fall weeks at the Biograph Theatre, 2433 N. Lincoln Ave., won't be occupied by a Victory Gardens Theater production, but a small commercial musical  set during the era of the Holocaust and concerning a ghetto and concentration camp located in...

    Tags: Theater, Music, Czech Republic, Entertainment Events, The Holocaust (1934-1945)

    4. Feb 28, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  4. Lyric sets world premiere of new opera based on Ann Patchett novel for 2015-16 season

    Lyric Opera of Chicago has shied away from commissioning any new operas over the last decade, at a time when other major American opera companies such as the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera and Los Angeles Opera have actively cultivated new stage works from inception to premiere.
    Lyric Opera of Chicago has shied away from commissioning any new operas over the last decade, at a time when other major American opera companies such as the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera and Los Angeles Opera have...

    Tags: Andrew Davis, Culture, Music Industry, Music, Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    5. Feb 28, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  5. Goodman Theatre's upcoming season to highlight a Mary Zimmerman take on 'Jungle Book'

    Mary Zimmerman will premiere her new stage-musical version of "The Jungle Book"in Chicago, as part of the Goodman Theatre’s 2012-13 subscription season, the Chicago theater announced.
    Mary Zimmerman will premiere her new stage-musical version of "The Jungle Book"in Chicago, as part of the Goodman Theatre’s 2012-13 subscription season, the Chicago theater announced. "The Jungle Book," a Goodman production enhanced by the...

    Tags: The Jungle Book (movie), Music, Goodman Theatre, Bare (music group), Scott Rudin

    6. Feb 7, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  6. With 'Ameriville,' a new artistic director makes a statement at Victory Gardens

    THEATER REVIEW: "Ameriville" by Universes at Victory Gardens Theater ★★★ ... The Chay Yew era at the Victory Gardens began in earnest Monday night with "Ameriville," an intensely politicized and energetic collage that starts in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
    The Chay Yew era at the Victory Gardens began in earnest Monday night with "Ameriville," an intensely politicized and energetic performance collage that starts in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and ends up as a poetic indictment of all manner of...

    Tags: Natural Disasters, Hurricane Katrina (2005), Hurricanes, Anna Deavere Smith, Arts and Culture

    7. Feb 5, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  7. Play about India call center never makes a connection

    THEATER REVIEW: "Disconnect" at the Victory Gardens Theater ★ ... "Disconnect," the aptly named new play by Anupama Chandrasekhar, is set in a collection agency in Chennai, India.
    "Disconnect," the aptly named new play by Anupama Chandrasekhar at the Victory Gardens Theater, is set in a collection agency in Chennai, India, where smart, ambitious and energetic young Indian workers assume pseudonyms like Jennifer and Michelle and try...

    Tags: Employees, India, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Arts and Culture, Disconnect (movie)

    8. Nov 27, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  8. Overloaded production sinks this love story

    THEATER REVIEW: "Failure: A Love Story" at the Victory Gardens Theater ★★ ... Philip Dawkins, a hugely talented Chicago writer, has penned a Chicago tale full of emotional riches.
    Philip Dawkins, a hugely talented Chicago writer, has, in his newest work, "Failure: A Love Story," penned a Chicago tale full of emotional riches. Alas, this potentially moving drama about three ill-fated sisters in the 1920s has been saddled with a...

    Tags: Ellis Island, Arts and Culture

    9. Aug 21, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  9. A very full load of nominees for this year's Equity Jeff Awards

    Apparently confronted by a plethora of riches in the past season of Chicago theater, the Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee offered up not the traditional four or five nominees one finds at the Tony Awards, for instance, but a bevy of nominees for its annual awards. In the case of best Equity production in Chicago last year, the committee came up a whopping 18 nominees, divided between "large" and "midsized" companies. And that doesn't even include the musicals.
    Apparently confronted by a plethora of riches in the past season of Chicago theater, the Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee offered up not the traditional four or five nominees one finds at the Tony Awards, for instance, but a bevy of nominees for its...

    Tags: Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Music, Rentals, Religious Festivals, Irving Berlin

    10. Apr 10, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  10. Grieving family will pull you in

    THEATER REVIEW: "A Permanent Image" by LiveWire Chicago at the Storefront Theater ★★★½ ... Samuel Hunter's "A Permanent Image" is by no means the first play to tell the story of adult siblings ...
    Playwright Samuel Hunter's "A Permanent Image" is by no means the first play to tell the story of adult siblings returning from out of town for a parent's funeral. The emotional tension of that ubiquitous human moment — which often involves booze,...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, La-Z-Boy Incorporated

    11. Apr 10, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  11. A history of genocide, as intriguingly told by imperfect actors

    THEATER REVIEW: "We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South-West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915" at the Victory Gardens Ignition Festival ★★★ ... Oral histories are only as good as their sources.
    Oral histories are only as good as their sources. So the amateur actors researching the systematic extermination of the Herero tribe of Namibia by German colonial occupiers in and around 1907 have a crippling problem. These well-meaning thespians,...

    Tags: Celebrities, Namibia, Massacres, Arts and Culture, Genocide

    12. Apr 16, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  12. 'Whale' a devastating play about a man too big to move through life

    THEATER REVIEW: "The Whale" at Victory Gardens Theater ★★★★ ... Charlie is the dying, pathetic, 600-pound man stuck on the couch in the middle of Samuel D. Hunter's beautifully devastating drama.
    Charlie, the dying, pathetic, 600-pound man stuck on the couch in the middle of Samuel D. Hunter's beautifully devastating drama "The Whale," is familiar with blubber. An online writing teacher, he's a fan of Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick." When Charlie'...

    Tags: Arts and Culture

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