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Arts & Culture, Theater Review Oct 3, 2018
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With Downstate, Bruce Norris finally earns his Pulitzer

And director Pam MacKinnon and her Steppenwolf cast give us a masterwork.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, Downstate, Steppenwolf Theatre, Bruce Norris, Clybourne Park, Pain and the Itch, Pulitzer Prize, Pam MacKinnon, Eddie Torres, Cecilia Noble, K. Todd Freeman, Glenn Davis, Tim Hopper, pedophilia, sexual abuse, victimhood, trauma, reconciliation contract, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Fall Preview Sep 19, 2018
Coming this fall: Indecent and Downstate, two plays with a better-than-even chance of being great

A local debut and a world premiere that just might merit the hype.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Fall Preview, Indecent, Downstate, Victory Gardens, Steppenwolf, Bruce Norris, The God of Vengeance, Gary Griffin, Cindy Gold, David Darlow, Andrew White, Pam MacKinnon Glenn Davis, K. Todd Freeman, Tim Hopper, Francis Guinan, fall preview, fall preview, Paula Vogel

Blogs, Bleader Apr 7, 2017
Tracy Letts’s rebellion against the Jeff Awards is suspiciously woke

What motivated the Steppenwolf playwright to give the Jeffs the cold shoulder?
- By Christopher Piatt
- Tags: Arts, Performing Arts, Theater, Tracy Letts, Steppenwolf, Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee, Jeff Awards, theater, August: Osage County, Superior Donuts, Bug, Jack Helbig, Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, Bruce Norris, Airline Highway, The Christians

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Jan 29, 2016
Le Switch, The Mutilated, and nine more new reviews worth your notice

On the off-Loop scene: the latest from local playwright Philip Dawkins, an obscure Tennessee Williams one-act, and a Neil LaBute funfest
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Bye Bye Birdie, Tammy Mader, Drury Lane Theatre, Michelle Aravena, Leryn Turlington, Signal Ensemble Theatre, The Consultant, Heidi Schreck, Courtney Jones, Aguijón Theater, Epopeya, Hecuba, Euripides, Abel González Melo, Oracle Theatre, The Hairy Ape, Eugene O'Neill, Julian Parker, Monty Cole, The Mutilated, Tennessee Williams, Mierka Girten, Jennifer Engstrom, A Red Orchid Theatre, Dado, Steep Theatre Co., Posh, Laura Wade, Dash Barber, Christopher Borek, Jonathan Barry, Bruce Norris, Domesticated, Sunset Baby, AnJi White, Kelvin Roston Jr., TimeLine Theatre Company, Dominique Morisseau, About Face Theatre, Le Switch, Philip Dawkins, The Homosexuals, Charm, Northlight Theatre, Steppenwolf Garage, [Title of Show], Jeff Bowen, Hunter Bell, Open Door Repertory, Ashton Byrum, Kellye Howard, Transparent, Vices & Virtues, Profiles Theatre, Neil LaBute, Betsy Bowman, Tom McGregor, 10-K, Swallowing Bicycles

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Dec 16, 2015
Steppenwolf's Domesticated is a battle tooth and claw

Bruce Norris's dark comedy looks at the aftermath of a political sex scandal.
- By Zac Thompson
- Tags: Theater Review, Domesticated play, Steppenwolf Theatre, Bruce Norris, Tom Irwin, Emily Chang, Jeff Sugg, Melanie Neilan, Mary Beth Fisher

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 5, 2014
Strandline: A play maybe too Irish for its own good

A Red Orchid Theatre's black comedy has the ache but not the clarity.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, Strandline, A Red Orchid Theatre, Conor McPherson, The Night Alive, AstonRep, Martin McDonagh, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Pumpgirl, Pumpgirls and Dinettes, Ireland, Irish playwrights, Kirsten Fitzgerald, J.R. Sullivan, Kirsten Fitzgerald, Bruce Norris, The Qualms, Natalie West, John Francis Babbo

Blogs, Bleader Jul 29, 2014
Reader's Agenda Tue 7/29: Spinal Tap, The Qualms, and Crocodiles

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Tuesday, July 29
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Do This, Arts, This Is Spinal Tap, Sound Opinions, Millennium Park, The Qualms, Steppenwolf, Bruce Norris, Crocodiles, Empty Bottle

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jul 16, 2014
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Approach Steppenwolf's The Qualms without reservations

Bruce Norris's satire of swingers is pretty damned delicious.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, The Qualms, Steppenwolf Theatre, Bruce Norris, The Pain and the Itch, Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award, Clybourne Park, Martha Lavey, Greg Stuhr, Diane Davis, Keith Kupferer, Kate Arrington, Pam MacKinnon, Karen Aldridge, Paul Oakley Stovall, David Pasquesi, Kristen Fitzgerald, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Downstairs Theater, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Sep 4, 2013
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What happened to A Raisin in the Sun

A half century since its premiere, Lorraine Hansberry’s masterpiece is still a potent indictment of an unequal society.
- By Zac Thompson
- Tags: Theater Review, A Raisin in the Sun, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, TimeLine Theatre Company, Lorraine Hansberry, Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream, Big Walter, Sidney Poitier, TimeLine, Jerod Haynes, Greta Oglesby, Bruce Norris, Clybourne Park, Recommended, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 3, 2012
Why didn't Bruce Norris play the game?

Producer Scott Rudin drops the Broadway version of Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Onstage, Performing Arts, Arts, Bruce Norris, Scott Rudin, Clybourne Park, Steppenwolf Theatre, Anna D. Shapiro, Amy Morton, Martha Lavey, Michael Riedel, The Pain and the Itch

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Sep 22, 2011
Clybourne Park gets its Chicago premiere

Bruce Norris's Pulitzer-winning play revisits Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun
- By Zac Thompson
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Clybourne Park, Bruce Norris, Raisin in the Sun, Pulitzer Prize, Studs Terkel

Arts & Culture, Culture Vultures May 12, 2011
Culture Vultures

Why a booze-inspired bus stop is refreshing, how burlesque is changing a life, Afrocentric art, and more
- By Lauri Apple
- Tags: Culture Vultures, Lisa Gerber, Spin Sucks, Abuslut, Chicago Transit Authority, Lauren Whalen, Facets Cinematheque, Studio L'Amour, Alderman Howard Brookins, Jr., 21st Ward, Samuel Akainyah, Adrian Holovaty, Everyblock.com, Bruce Norris, Clybourne Park, Robin Clement, Octavarius, Paper Boy, Lakeview

Blogs, Bleader Jun 5, 2010
Michael Shannon, Punk Rocker

More on "I'll Die Tomorrow" star Michael Shannon's music, theater and film career.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Music, Michael Shannon, Jim Sikora, Corporal, Steppenwolf, Revolutionary Road, I'll Die Tomorrow, Pegboy, Jesus Lizard, punk, Viaduct Theater, Bruce Norris, Parallelogram, Lisa D'Amour, Detroit, Kate Arrington, Brooklyn, Hypocrites, Our Town, Lexington, Adam Rapp, Finer Noble Gases, Martin Scorcese, Boardwalk Empire, Humana Festival, Lexington, HBO, Barrow Street Theater

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With Downstate, Bruce Norris finally earns his Pulitzer

And director Pam MacKinnon and her Steppenwolf cast give us a masterwork.

Coming this fall: Indecent and Downstate, two plays with a better-than-even chance of being great

A local debut and a world premiere that just might merit the hype.

Tracy Letts’s rebellion against the Jeff Awards is suspiciously woke

What motivated the Steppenwolf playwright to give the Jeffs the cold shoulder?

Le Switch, The Mutilated, and nine more new reviews worth your notice

On the off-Loop scene: the latest from local playwright Philip Dawkins, an obscure Tennessee Williams one-act, and a Neil LaBute funfest

Steppenwolf's Domesticated is a battle tooth and claw

Bruce Norris's dark comedy looks at the aftermath of a political sex scandal.

Strandline: A play maybe too Irish for its own good

A Red Orchid Theatre's black comedy has the ache but not the clarity.

Reader's Agenda Tue 7/29: Spinal Tap, The Qualms, and Crocodiles

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Tuesday, July 29

Recommended
Approach Steppenwolf's The Qualms without reservations

Bruce Norris's satire of swingers is pretty damned delicious.

Recommended Video
What happened to A Raisin in the Sun

A half century since its premiere, Lorraine Hansberry’s masterpiece is still a potent indictment of an unequal society.

Why didn't Bruce Norris play the game?

Producer Scott Rudin drops the Broadway version of Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park

Clybourne Park gets its Chicago premiere

Bruce Norris's Pulitzer-winning play revisits Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun

Culture Vultures

Why a booze-inspired bus stop is refreshing, how burlesque is changing a life, Afrocentric art, and more

Michael Shannon, Punk Rocker

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And director Pam MacKinnon and her Steppenwolf cast give us a masterwork.

A local debut and a world premiere that just might merit the hype.

What motivated the Steppenwolf playwright to give the Jeffs the cold shoulder?

On the off-Loop scene: the latest from local playwright Philip Dawkins, an obscure Tennessee Williams one-act, and a Neil LaBute funfest

Bruce Norris's dark comedy looks at the aftermath of a political sex scandal.

A Red Orchid Theatre's black comedy has the ache but not the clarity.

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Tuesday, July 29

Bruce Norris's satire of swingers is pretty damned delicious.

A half century since its premiere, Lorraine Hansberry’s masterpiece is still a potent indictment of an unequal society.

Producer Scott Rudin drops the Broadway version of Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park

Bruce Norris's Pulitzer-winning play revisits Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun

Why a booze-inspired bus stop is refreshing, how burlesque is changing a life, Afrocentric art, and more

More on "I'll Die Tomorrow" star Michael Shannon's music, theater and film career.

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