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Short plays settle for less
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Over the last decade at least, plays have been getting shorter and shorter. In a response to colleague Kelly Kleiman, Jonathan Abarbanel speculates as to why. more
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February, 22, 2012
1. On Vocalo's Morning AMp today was playwright behind fml: How Carson McCullers Saved My Life, which opens at Steppenwolf next week. Sarah Gubbins was joined by Joanie Schultz to talked about "the queer themes and female-centric narrative and the largely female crew working on the show."...
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February, 22, 2012
"This year has been wild!” says Halena Kays. And she ticks off the items contributing to wildness: “Take over a company [the Hypocrites], direct some shows [Burning Bluebeard, Six Characters in Search of an Author].” Plus last fall, while performing in The Kid Thing, she found out she was having...
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February, 21, 2012
1. Gilbert & Sullivan's The Gondoliers is up at Mandel Hall at the University of Chicago the weekend of March 9. It "takes place in 19th-century Venice, where two handsome and charming would-be Kings – both gondoliers – vie for the disputed throne of Barataria." Riveting! Will there be...
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February, 20, 2012
1. "Everything about them was a statement. Their clothes, a rejection of materialism. Their drugs, a quest to get closer to God. Their long hair, a flag of freedom. They were hippies, the social watch dogs of the 1960s, and they played a pivotal role in American pop culture." That's right, Hair is...
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February, 17, 2012
It’s like global warming: a lot of the evidence is anecdotal rather than empirical. But over the last decade at least, plays have been getting shorter and shorter. Are playwrights at fault? Do they realize they can earn the same bucks (if they earn anything at all) for a 75 minute show as for one...
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February, 17, 2012
1. Tony Kushner will be speaking at the AIDS Foundation of Chicago's spring dinner on March 27, reports the Associated Press. It will be held at the Hilton.2. Stephen Sondheim will be honored at the Music Institute of Chicago's 82nd Gala with the Duskin Award, named after MIC's founder Dorothy...
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