Sickinger brought grassroots theater to Chicago

May. 9, 2013
Robert Sickinger came to Chicago in 1963 as director of Hull House theater on Chicago’s north side. But in six short years, he gave the city a new style of theater: grassroots, adventurous, and in the neighborhood. 

David Mamet’s Chicago roots

Feb. 23, 2013
Life in the Windy City shaped the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright’s creative worldview, and even inspired some of his best-known work.  

The problem with theatrical brevity

Feb. 16, 2012
Listen to the Dueling Critics on Eight Forty-Eight We've recently seen a spate of shows running between 75 and 90 minutes, no intermission.

Lessons to learned from Timothy Douglas' resignation

Jan. 25, 2012
On Monday, January 23 at the Goodman Theatre opening of David Mamet’s Race, the new artistic director of Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, Nick Sandys, stood side-by-side with his predecessor, Timothy Douglas, both tall and trim and obviously with warm regards towards each other.