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“Pericles” (now at Brooklyn’s Theatre for a New Audience” directed by Trevor Nunn (http://www.tfana.org/season-2016/pericles/overview) and starring Christian Camargo) is full of incident. It is an exotic tale of riddles, incest,
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Having resolved this year, the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, to experience in any way, shape, or form the bard’s entire oeuvre, my first was Shakespeare’s reputed last, “The Tempest.”
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The Belarus Free Theatre’s “King Lear” (https://www.chicagoshakes.com/plays_and_events/belarus_lear) can be hard to watch. Performed in Belarusian, you have to continually shift your eyes from reading the supertitles above the stage to watching
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Of the total 37 plays by William Shakespeare that I’ve resolved to see this year, the 400th anniversary of his death, “Measure for Measure” is my second (I’ll post about
“Most strange, but most truly, will I speak.” Read More »
My daughter Cecilia and I went to the Museum of Contemporary Art this evening to see “Cosmic Body” (https://mcachicago.org/Calendar/2016/02/Ingri-Fiksdal-Cosmic-Body) by Ingri Fiksdal (with Ingvild Langgard and Signe Becker), a weirdly
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Magic as a performing art has its roots in religion just as the lotus blossom’s roots (pace Prince Siddhartha) lie in the muck of the swamp. Where priests and prophets
Teller’s “Tempest” Read More »
Perusing the program before the start of Chicago Lookingglass Theatre’s “Moby-Dick” (thru 28 August: http://lookingglasstheatre.org/event_page/moby-dick/), I noted that three out of the nine actors, a good third of the cast,
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What is “it”? This question follows us after watching David Robert Mitchell’s scary sexy “It Follows.” The story’s premise is simple, so simple Mitchell admits that during production he refused
“The pilgrims wandered among the relics of the honky-tonk hero […] of the lovingly curated shrine to the solitary country star [George Jones]. Just as a Roman Catholic visitor to
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“School Play” (2014), Charles Ray explains, finishes an “accidental trilogy” begun with “The New Beetle” and “Boy with Frog.” “School Play” shows how our boy has grown. No longer naked or
