Performance Meets Ritual in ‘The Object Lesson’
Geoff Sobelle takes cues from comedians in his new show at FringeArts.
September 2013
Bron Batten Premieres ‘Sweet Child of Mine’ at Chicago’s Neo-Futurists
Batten’s new show copes with parent/daughter divide by bringing the parents onstage.
TCG Announces Its 2013 Conference Awards Recipients
The awardees includes Rebecca Young, Adrian Hall, Kinan Valdez, and Deborah Cullinan.
News in Brief for September 2013
From the Welders, to cheap tickets at Huntington Theatre Company, to August Wilson on the radio, to all the Lucy Thurber plays you can ever want—this month in national news.
In Dallas, the TCG Conference Goes Back to School
At the 2013 Conference, theatre artists went back to their roots to “Learn, Do, Teach” and tackle the topics of innovation, audience engagement, diversity and inclusion, and financial adaptation.
Letters to the Editor September 2013
Readers wrote in to quibble with or praise Johnna Adams’s ‘Gidion’s Knot’ and immersive theatre.
Kwame Kwei-Armah’s Science of Feeling at Home
Kwame Kwei-Armah hits his stride as the artistic director of Center Stage in Baltimore.
‘Arguendo’ Gets to the Naked Truth
The source text for Elevator Repair Service’s newest show isn’t a classic text but something more revealing: transcripts from a Supreme Court case on public nudity.
Robert Sickinger (1917-2013): A Windy City Ringleader
From Hull House, to the Jane Addams Center, to Uptown Theatre, remembering a giant of the Chicago theatre scene.
Bernard Sahlins (1922-2013): A Giant of the Second City
Remembering the sustaining force behind the Chicago improv institution.
