Jonathan Abarbanel

Eight Forty-Eight

Recent stories by this author

Hark! Who named today 'Talk like Shakespeare Day'?

Apr. 20, 2011
Oi-yoi-yoi! Or perhaps we should say, “Zounds!

NEA Survives Budget Maelstrom

Apr. 20, 2011
The unexpectedly chilly winds of April weren't enough to blow down the National Endowment for the Arts, even though some members of Congress wanted to pour cold Tea Party on it.

Onstage/Backstage: Rahm, Boeing and the Arts

Apr. 12, 2011
Dear Mayor-Elect Emanuel:Perhaps you already are familiar with the CityArts Program, but if not I want to tell you about it and suggest something wonderful you could do to make it secure.

Chicago theater loses Off-Loop pioneer Patricia Hart

Apr. 10, 2011
One of the pioneers of Chicago Off-Loop Theater, costume designer Patricia Hart, died at dawn Sunday morning (April 10) after a two-year on-and-off battle with brain cancer. She was 64.Hart was born in St.

A conversation from Paris with Oscar Wilde and Moliere

Apr. 5, 2011
Some readers and WBEZ listeners may know that I teach theater part-time at the University of Illinois at Chicago, which is why I was in Paris two weeks ago.

Teatro Vista up for New York and Chicago honors

Apr. 1, 2011
 You just can't get away from Teatro Vista these days, the little Off-Loop Latino theater troupe that could.

Onstage/Backstage: Remembering Lanford Wilson

Mar. 29, 2011
The death Thursday (March 24) of Lanford Wilson, 73, one of America's most distinguished playwrights, ended a career that began in Chicago 50 years ago and had long and strong local affiliations.

Tennessee Williams turns 100: The Chicago years

Mar. 23, 2011
This Saturday (March 26) the world will celebrate the centenary of the birth of Tennessee Williams, whose friends called him “Ten.” I had the pleasure of meeting him four or five times over the years, and he liked me so much he said I could call him “Eight.”

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