- "Editor's note: As originally published, our review implied that an actor's costume contained padding. As the actor has noted in the comments below, it does not. We deeply regret the error," says this review of Sordid Lives at Ludicrous Theatre Company. The comment? From Suzanne Bracken, who plays LaVonda. She wrote, "I'm just fat, not wearing a fat suit. Some people are just shaped differently than others." Another commenter responds, "Wow, Suzanne, you are more gracious than I would have been." In other Sordid Lives reviews, Chicago Theater Beat says Bracken "nearly steals the show."
- BackStage Theatre Company is closing up shop; their current production of A Scent of Flowers will be their last one.
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Still, a dead playwright can't argue about how the play is cast, about whether or not the design elements meet the author's intentions, about changes to the script or about radical directorial concepts, let alone gross misinterpretations by actors. Perhaps the old joke should be altered to read "the only safe playwright is a dead playwright."
After the recent shootings in Aurora, Colorado, few felt bad for alleged shooter James Holmes, who has since been charged with 24 counts of murder. WBEZ's own Al Gini wrote that he wasn't sure that our society could ever really forgive people like Holmes, or former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky. "Given the immensity of their actions, I think forgiveness is asking too much,"