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By Fabrizio O. Almeida
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1:19 PM, March 12, 2010 |
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It’s the biggest youth poetry slam of its kind in the country, and on Saturday, March 6th, the 10th Annual Louder than a Bomb (LTAB) Festival culminated in a sold-out show at the Vic Theater. The performance was especially raucous, as it celebrated a decade of bringing teenagers together from all over the city to showcase their collective and competitive passion for poetry and performance.
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By Kerry Reid
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2:45 PM, March 05, 2010 |
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The Richard Christiansen Theater officially opened on Monday night at
Victory Gardens
as the theatre critic emeritus for the Chicago Tribune cut a red ribbon on the door of the upstairs studio space at the Biograph, and then took a seat on stage while a host of Chicago theatre luminaries feted—and occasionally gently ribbed—the man widely credited with putting Chicago’s vibrant theatre community on the map.
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By Kerry Reid
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3:14 PM, February 26, 2010 |
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Getting paid to write is the dream for all writers. But professional playwriting commissions—that seed money that theatres provide to writers in the hope of seeing a new play flower into a full production—carry with them an array of pros and cons, as several playwrights mentioned in the Theatre Development Fund’s much-discussed study “Outrageous Fortune: The Life and Times of the New American Play,” compiled by Todd London and Ben Pesner and released in December of 2009.
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By Laura Molzahn
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2:35 PM, January 29, 2010 |
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Though the Bureau of Labor Statistics predicted in 2008 that employment in the performing arts would not grow significantly in the next 10 years, it forecast 15 percent growth in “water transportation services” over the same period, due in part to “increasing tourism” worldwide and the addition of new U.S. cruise lines to Hawaii.
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By Kerry Reid
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1:57 PM, January 22, 2010 |
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Susie Field had no bigger goal in mind 10 years ago than getting her quiet college-age sons to communicate a bit more around the dinner table. She made up little cards with questions for each member of the family to answer, and when it was her turn, the question was “What is your secret ambition?” She found herself answering “To run a theatre for special-needs kids.”
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