Daily Rehearsal: Will Eno gets a big chunk of cash
By Kate DriesDaily Rehearsal: Will Eno gets a big chunk of cash
By Kate Dries2. Remember when the Sun-Times covered Love, Lost and What I Wore by asking Theater Critic Hedy Weiss to write about hers? Someone else loved it! Zac Thompson from the Reader writes (on his personal blog), “I am not exaggerating when I tell you that this piece of journalism…is the best thing that has ever happened to me.” He also throws out a few future column possibilities, like, “Is Hedy Weiss Interested in Sharing an Egg Cream with Me and Talking about Cute Boys?” and “How Come Whenever a Cell Phone Rings during a Play, Hedy Weiss Glares at Me as Though I Am Responsible? Or Am I Imagining Things?”
3. A dance preview for the fall season includes the usuals — Hubbard Street, River North, Luna Negra, and Merce Cunningham. But we’ve also got Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago and Chicago Dance Crash.
5. Will Eno, the beloved writer of Middletown, is part of a new residency program at Signature Theater Initiative. It grants each writer three productions over five years, $50,000, stipends to help pay for all that theater, and health insurance.
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