Romance, Passion and Beyond. As one of the four plays featured in National Pastime Theatre’s current Naked July Festival, “Eros” is certainly the most suggestive. Sensuality and passion are vividly brought to the forefront in Shifra Werch’s steamy play that uses a collection of sexy scenes made famous by film,…
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Thursday, 15 July 2010 15:29
A Parallelogram: A Profound Play that Will Get You to Think Outside of the Box
Written by Kendall Hartenstine
Would you want to live your life if you knew beforehand it has relatively no meaning and will cause more harm than good? What if you also already knew the future is going to bleak and there isn’t a God damn thing you can do to change the outcome. Bruce…
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Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:04
“The Living Canvas” Is As Powerful As It Is Beautiful
Written by Ken Payne
Pete Guither has once again made his mark on modern theatre, this time pushing the envelope of artistic creativity to new realms with the latest rendition of his own creation, The Living Canvas - Demons. As part of National Pastime Theatre’s Naked July Festival, Guither ingeniously showcases his ability to…
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Tuesday, 13 July 2010 16:51
Naked July Festival, Art Stripped Down: “Beauty is More than Skin Deep”
Written by Kimberly Katz
When is the last time you saw full frontal nudity in the theater? Was it “Hair”, “Oh, Calcutta!” or maybe “The Blue Room”? Maybe you have never seen a play with nudity in it, well, here is your chance to experience the liberating effect of live theater specifically designed to…
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The Down Side of Suicide: A Divine Comedy When: Fri 7/16 and Sat 7/31, 9:30 PM, Price: $15 When I heard the title of the newest show offered in Wicker Park’s quaint Gorilla Tango Nation Theatre: The Down Side of Suicide, “comedy” was not the first thing that crossed my…
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When I was younger, I thought that plays were these boring events that boring adults went to when they felt like socializing with other boring adults. As I’ve grown older (and wiser?) I have come to learn that sometimes this premise is not too far off from the truth.. but…
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There’s good theater and then there’s good attempts at theater. But there are also those rare occasions that a good theater makes a good attempt at a plain bad production; a good example of this is Sex Marks the Spot, a new political comedy by Charles Grippo. The play attempts…
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The Drury Lane’s production of ‘Sugar’ can be easily summed up as the musical version of the legendary gender bender film ‘Some Like It Hot.’ The show is a revival of the 1972 Broadway musical with book by Peter Stone, music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Bob Merrill with…
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The Court Theatre’s revival of Athol Fugard’s classic Apartheid-era polemic Sizwe Banzi is Dead is the culmination of the collaborative Chicago Fugard Festival (other works were performed by the Remy Bumppo Theatre Company and TimeLine Theatre). The play is a stark look at the impact of South African Apartheid policies…
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Friday, 04 June 2010 22:21
You’re So Lucky You’re My Best Friend: The Odd Couple shows that opposites do attract
Written by Kendall Royzen
They say opposites attract. So what do you get when a recently divorced sportswriter and eternal bachelor acquires an uptight, compulsive hypochondriac as a roommate? You get a polarized reaction that is pure comedic gold. Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple comes to life at the Raven Theater with a witty…
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Tuesday, 01 June 2010 21:09
Kim Katz Platinum Plus - “Fuerza Bruta” is Sensual, Exciting, and Life Affirming!
Written by Kimberly Katz
“Fuerza Bruta: Look Up” was hands down the most exciting, sensual, life affirming theater piece I have seen in years! From the moment you enter the theater, Fuerza Bruta, which means “Look Up”, takes the "fourth wall" and literally breaks it over the audience's head - explosive! When I…
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From the Neo-Futurists website: Do you have what it takes to lord over your employees or are you doomed to a life in the mailroom? Find out in the Neo-Futurists' new interactive live musical game show. CRISIS is modeled after classic game shows of the 70's, 80's and 90's, challenging…
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Tuesday, 25 May 2010 08:23
It Was A Momentary Lapse of Judgment: The Gay American at the Side Project Theater
Written by Kendall Royzen
The dimly-lit, small storefront Side Project Theater in Rogers Park lends itself perfectly as the setting of a seedy, closed-door meeting in which a closeted senator and his barely legal boy-toy would rendezvous; combine that with a superb cast and a flawless screenplay and the result is a the perfect-storm…
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