Category: PUBLICATIONS & OTHER MEDIA

Steppenwolf’s Laurie Metcalf interviewed by NY Times

Entitled “From Steppenwolf to Broadway“, the New York Times has posted a short audio interview with Steppenwolf ensemble-member Laurie Metcalf, including a slide show of pictures from her latest Broadway show, “November” (where she stars alongside Nathan Lane).  Check it out!

(interview produced by Erik Piepenburg)

January 22, 2008 | 0 Comments More

Chicago Tribune’s Top Plays of 2007

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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.

January 12, 2008 | 0 Comments More

TimeOut Chicago’s Ten Best Shows of 2007

It’s that time of the year again – when theater critics, websites and periodicals post their Best-of-the-Year lists.  So here’s the first, a “Year’s Best” list from TimeOut Chicago:

1.  The Adding Machine (Next Theatre – and soon Off-Broadway)

 2.  August: Osage County (Steppenwolf – and now currently receiving rave reviews on Broadway)

 3.  The Strangerer (Theater Oobleck)

 4.  Merchant on Venice (Silk Road Theatre Project)

 5.  Jerry Springer – The Opera (Bailiwick Repertory)

 6.  The Resistible Rise of Aruturo Ui (Steep Theatre)

 7.  Weapon of Mass Impact (A Red Orchid Theatre)

 8.  Mr. Spacky..The Man Who Was Continuously Followed byWolves (Strange Tree Group)

 9.  Another Day in the Empire (Black Sheep Productions)

 10. The Dining Room (New Leaf Theatre)

To see the complete list, along with TimeOut’s descriptions of each show, go to the article on TimeOutChicago’s website.

January 4, 2008 | 0 Comments More

Great interview with Drury Lane managing director

I always love listening to the always-informative (and entertaining) interviews over at Talk Theatre In Chicago.  And their recent interview with Kyle DeSantis, the business-savvy managing director of both Drury Lane Oakbrook and Drury Lane Water Tower, does not disappoint. 

Check it out!   And if you like it (which I’m sure you will), don’t forget to subscribe to the theatre podcast over at iTunes.

November 8, 2007 | 0 Comments More

Blagojovich Cuts Arts Budgets!!

An article in PerformInk, by Jonathan Abarbanel, explains the bad (but hopefully temporary) news:

Blagojovich Cuts Arts Budgets

BY jonathan abarbanel

In a high-risk game of political brinksmanship, Governor Rod Blagojevich in mid-August used his line-item veto to slash hundreds of millions of dollars out of the state budget passed by both houses of the Illinois General Assembly. Playing partisan power politics pure and simple, Blagojovich cut 100 percent—every last penny—of the usual Member’s Initiatives, many of which were intended for performing arts organizations.

But the governor only eliminated the earmarks of Democratic legislators—his own party—letting the initiatives of Republican members stand. His action was intended as a direct slap at Illinois Speaker of the House Michael Madigan, one of only two or three Democrats statewide who has as much power as the Guv, and perhaps more. In what can only be described as a game of “my clout is bigger than your clout,” the two servants of the people have measured each other for months, pushing the state to the edge of economic shut-down several times.

To read the rest of the article, go here.

September 22, 2007 | 0 Comments More
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