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West Side Story
Victory Gardens hosts an open rehearsal of “Living Green”
For each of their shows, about a week before previews, Victory Gardens Biograph Theater hosts an open rehearsal. Tonight, audiences get a sneak peek at Gloria Bond Clunie's “Living Green,” a story of an upwardly mobile African-American family living on the North Shore but contemplating a move back to the West Side
(2009-01-20)
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Movement Vocabulary
Fire This Time
This weekend, Tango Fire will visit Chicago—a city with its own sizable cadre of crazed tangueros y tangueras—for the first time, slicing up the stage of the Harris with hyper-precise, lightning-fast footwork executed in four-inch heels
(2009-01-20)
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Opera on the Edge
Eric Reda launches a contemporary company
For quite some time if you have wanted legit opera in Chicago you have had two choices. Lyric Opera of Chicago and Chicago Opera Theater are the big boys in town and they hold quite the monopoly. Though both companies produce acclaimed work, if you are looking for something contemporary, options dry up. Oh sure, you will see the occasional Benjamin Britten or John Adams opera by one company or the other, but both primarily present in traditional formats. Enter Eric Reda and Chicago Opera Vanguard
(2009-01-20)
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Tip of the Week
Little Foxes
“Greed is good,” “Wall Street”’s Gordon Gekko maintains. But for the Hubbard family in Lillian Hellman’s “Little Foxes,” greed isn’t good; it’s fatal
(2009-01-20)
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Sophie's Choices
Timeline’s “Not Enough Air” explores the writing of the play Machinal
This winter Timeline will present the world premiere of Masha Obolensky’s “Not Enough Air,” which explores the circumstances behind the writing of the play “Machinal,” journalist-turned-playwright Sophie Treadwell’s expressionist tour de force attempt to understand the real case of Ruth Snyder’s murder of her husband. We spoke with Obolensky a few weeks before the play opened to examine her own biographical project
(2009-01-13)
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Tip of the Week
The Investigation
Fresh off Peter Brook’s Bouffes du Nord and the Young Vic in London, the pedigree of “The Investigation” alone is fairly theatrical: it’s a semi-fictional documentary written by Peter Weiss about the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps, based on transcripts from Nazi war trials
(2009-01-13)
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The Players
The 50 people who really perform for Chicago
The critical ensemble that makes up Newcity's stage coverage presents our take on the most influential people on and offstage in Chicago
(2009-01-13)
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Tip of the Week
Dwayne Kennedy
You better believe if there’s something wrong in the fabric of society, Chicago’s own Dwayne Kennedy is gonna try to wrap his head around the problem
(2009-01-06)
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Newcity's Top 5 of Everything 2008: Stage
Caroline, or Change, Jon, A House with No Walls and more
(2008-12-30)
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Valk Like a Man
Wooster Group’s Kate Valk talks “Emperor Jones”
It was 1920 when Eugene O’Neill was awarded his first Pulitzer Prize for “Beyond the Horizon,” forecasting his place in theater history as one of America’s most important playwrights. Nearly a hundred years later, Chicago’s Goodman Theatre honors and examines the legacy of the “father of American drama”
(2008-12-30)
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