Category: PEOPLE of INTEREST
Live Bait Theater putting theater space up for sale
Hedy Weiss reports that Wrigleyville-based Live Bait Theater (3914 N. Clark – map) has recently put their performance space up for sale. Husband-and-wife owner-operators Sharon Evans and John Ragir will be reconfiguring their organization, with future partnerships being discussed. With the slow-down in the realty market, the sale might take awhile, so events are still scheduled for the performance space through late spring. Read more here.
Chicago Tribune’s Top Plays of 2007
In alphabetical order, here are the Chicago Tribune’s choices for the top 10 plays of 2007:
The Adding Machine
(Next Theatre – and soon Off-Broadway)
August: Osage County
(Steppenwolf – and now receiving rave reviews on Broadway)
Between Barack and a Hard Place
(Second City)
The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow
(Collaboraction)
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
(Congo Square)
Merchant on Venice
(Silk Road Theatre Project)
Othello
(Writers Theatre)
Shenendoah
(Marriott Theatre)
The Sparrow
(House Theatre)
A Stead Rain
(Chicago Dramatists)
To see further discussion regarding each show, go to Chris Jones’ The Theater Loop blog posting.
Miller’s “The Crucible” to be Chicago’s next book club selection
Chicago has chosen it’s next selection for the “One Book, One Chicago” program: Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible”. This Tony Award-winning play about the 17th Century Salem witch hunts and trials was Arthur Miller’s response to his censorship during the McCarthy trials in the 1950′s. In a statement, Daley rightly equates this same sype of witch hunt to the atmosphere in today’s administration.
“After 9/11, a lot of people have looked at the Muslim community, the Arab community in a completely different way and that’s really unfortunate. Also, many people are looking at the immigrant community in a completely different way, which is really unfortunate. We can learn from our lessons in history-and maybe we haven’t,” Daley told a news conference Thursday at the Harold Washington Library.
Daley goes on to sweep the internet into this milleu, including blogs:
Apparently referring to modern-day political witch hunts, Daley said, “In the electronic age, anyone can say anything. It’s remarkable. You listen to radio and TV and read [Internet blogs] and they’ll say anything without any justification. It’s amazing. It’s a completely different electronic age today. Home videos, everything. People say and do things. It’s amazing what can take place. That’s why we have to be very careful and review what’s happening in America.”
Hopefully he’s not including this blog in with that group!
For the complete story from the Chicago Sun-Times, click here.
