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By Carrie L. Kaufman
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3:12 PM, Aug 30, 2010 | Updated 11:19 PM, Aug 30, 2010 |
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It feels like Chicago Theatre has stepped it up a notch in the last few years. Or perhaps the rest of the country—having had their eyes opened by the phenomenal world-wide success of August: Osage County—is honoring the excellence that was already here. This past season we’ve watched as shows like The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity and Year Zero have leapt off of
Victory Gardens
’ stage to national prominence. We had to go see Drury Lane’s production of Ragtime the critics were going wild about. And Cabaret. And Cromer’s Streetcar at Writers. And most of the theatre community has seen at least one of The Brother/Sister Plays.
The Joseph Jefferson Committee agrees. This year’s Equity Jeff nominees cover a theatre that is as diverse as it is excellent.
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By Kerry Reid
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2:17 PM, Aug 27, 2010 | Updated 2:28 PM, Aug 27, 2010 |
 Many extraordinary young people have come through the doors of
Free Street Theater
over the years, but Abraham Mendoza, or “Abe” as he was known to family and friends, was special.
“He was so brilliant, so compassionate,” says Free Street creative director Anita Evans. “Everyone who met Abe knew he was going to change the world.”
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By Carrie L. Kaufman
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5:16 PM, Aug 12, 2010 | Updated 5:24 PM, Aug 12, 2010 |
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Tab Baker died on Tuesday night. He was found in his apartment. He had a heart attack.  He was 51. He had been battling Trigeminal Neuralgia for five years. Trigeminal Neuralgia is a nerve disease that causes tremendous, though short-lasting pain in the face, usually only one side where the nerve is affected. The pain, Tab told me two years ago—the last time I saw him—was excruciating, and often brought him to his knees. It is called “The Suicide Disease,” because many people who suffer from it decide they would rather die than be in such pain.
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By Kerry Reid
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5:14 PM, Aug 12, 2010 |
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Stage Left Theatre
moves out of their longtime Lakeview home this fall in order to become a resident company with
Theater Wit
, but the storefront space will remain viable, thanks to
Profiles Theatre
. Beginning in September, Profiles will operate the old Stage Left space at 3408 N. Sheffield under the moniker “The Second Stage,” and rent out the 50-seat facility to itinerant and emerging companies. (Stage Left, which originally produced in a storefront space on Clark Street in Lakeview, also provided rentals.) Profiles will continue to use their home base at 4147 N. Broadway for their productions, and the Second Stage space may also provide an alternative for their shows when they extend hits at home.
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By Kerry Reid
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10:35 AM, Aug 06, 2010 |
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It started out nearly 100 years ago as a movie theatre, but if the Skokie Theatre doesn’t get some angels on board, the live music and performance venue faces the prospect of closing its doors this fall.
Al Curtis, the operations manager for the Skokie Theatre Music Foundation (the nonprofit that runs the venue) says, “The bank really is in possession of the theatre.” The mortgage on the theatre ended up with Town Community Bank and Trust in Antioch, Illinois, and that bank was closed by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation and taken over by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) on January 15, 2010. Town Community is now owned and operated as a branch of First American Bank.
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