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Arts & Culture, Theater Review Sep 26, 2018
Not even a first-rate cast can save Curve of Departure

The characters are well drawn, but the story isn't all that compelling.
- By Jack Helbig
- Tags: Theater Review, Curve of Departure, Northlight Theatre, Rachel Bonds, BJ Jones, Mike Nussbaum, funeral

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Jan 11, 2018
Gift Theatre's Ten 2018, Filament Theatre's Forts!, and four more new stage shows

A festival of ten-minute plays and an interactive kids' show are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Blue Over You, Michael Joseph Mitchell, Dan Noonan, Spot On Company, Forts! Build Your Own Adventure, Filament Theatre, children's theater, It's My Penis and I'll Cry If I Want To, Jamie Black, Nevermore—The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe, Black Button Eyes Productions, Jonathan Christenson, Ed Rutherford, Nick Sula, Rufus Griswold, literary frenemies, the Gift Theatre, Ten 2018, short plays, theater festivals, Winter or Fall, Mike Nussbaum, Jessica Thebus, David Rabe, Slate, Carly Olson, The Cellphone Play, Rammel Chan, Northern Michigan Trust, K. Frithjof Peterson, Soft Things, J. Nicole Brooks, Nigerian Astronaut Wants to Come Home, Tracy Letts, The Night Safari, Will Eno, Cancellation

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review May 24, 2017
Ideation, Token, and nine more stage shows to see now

A dark comedy from Jackalope and a go-for-the-jugular solo performance are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Ideation, Aaron Loeb, Gus Menary, Jackalope Theatre, Italian Bred, Candice Guardino, Steven Schirripa, The Sopranos, Johnny 10 Beer's Daughter, Arti Ishak, Randy Steinmeyer, Dana Lynn Formby, Emmi Hilger, Something Marvelous, The My Way Residential, Irish Theatre of Chicago, Belinda Bremner, Geraldine Aron, Kevin Theis, Subtext Theater Company, A Prayer for the Sandinistas, Pope John Paul II, Leigh Johnson, Jonathan Hagloch, Kate Robison, Northlight Theatre, Relativity, Albert Einstein, Mark St. Germain, Katherine Keberlein, Mike Nussbaum, BJ Jones, Halcyon Theatre, The River Bride, Marisela Treviño Orta, Rinska Carrasco-Prestinary, Sofia Tew, Flavia Pallozzi, Nate Santana, The Rogue Aviator, Otherworld Theatre Company, Tiffany Keane-Schaefer, Nick Izzo, St. Jude, Luis Alfaro, Victory Gardens, Kaye Winks, Token, Judy's Beat Lounge, Schoen Smith, BoHo Theatre, Three Days of Rain, Richard Greenberg, Derek Van Barham, Kyle Curry, Kate Black-Spence, Niko Kourtis

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Aug 31, 2016
TimeLine’s Bakersfield Mist is a true tale gone bad

Playwright Stephen Sachs paints a shallow picture in this art-world saga.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, TimeLine Theatre, Bakersfield Mist, Stephen Sachs, Mike Nussbaum, Janet Ulrich Brooks, Teri Horton, Jackson Pollock, Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock?, Harry Moses, ArtNews, Artnet

Blogs, Bleader Sep 24, 2014
Reader's Agenda Wed 9/24: Smokefall, Spray Paint, and National Bourbon Heritage Month

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Wednesday, September 24
- By Francesca Gattuso
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Noah Haidle, Smokefall, Goodman Theatre, Tony Adler, Mike Nussbaum, Spray Paint, Empty Bottle, Rodeo Songs, Luca Cimarusti, National Bourbon Heritage Month, Bourbon Fest, Untitled Supper Club

Best of Chicago, Arts & Culture Jun 25, 2014
Critics' Picks
Best Performance by an 89-Year-Old (and One of the Better Ones by Anyone of Any Age)

Mike Nussbaum in Smokefall
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Arts & Culture, Best of Chicago 2014, Katherine Keberlein, Mike Nussbaum, Eric Slater, Hull House Theater, Goodman Theater, Noah Haidle, David Mamet, theater, Critics' Picks

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Oct 23, 2013
Recommended
The king of quirk comes through in Smokefall

Noah Haidle's new play goes beyond cute all the way to a vision.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, Noah Haidle, Christopher Durang, Rag and Bone, Vigils, Mr. Marmalade, Kerry Reid, American Theatre, Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, Alan Arkin, South Coast Repertory, Smokefall, The Skin of Our Teeth, Thornton Wilder, Anne Kauffman, Katherine Keberlein, Eric Slater, Guy Massey, Catherine Combs, Mike Nussbaum, Kevin Depinet, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Cyrano de Bergerac, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Lit Feature May 30, 2013
Susan Nussbaum's next act

The celebrated playwright and disability rights activist put down her pen for nearly a decade. But in a new novel, Good Kings Bad Kings, she picks back up where she left off, creating disabled characters who are funny, angry, and vividly human.
- By Sam Worley
- Tags: Lit Feature, Susan Nussbaum, Barbara Kingsolver, Twitter, writing, Carrie Sandahl, profiles, Remains Theatre, theater, Highland Park, Mike Nussbaum, Roosevelt University, Goodman School of Drama, DePaul University, Theatre School at DePaul University, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, writers, Mike Ervin, Smart Ass Cripple, blogs, books, Roger Ebert, radio theater, Jerry Lewis, novels, plays, Empowered FeFes, Utne Reader, Access Living, playwrights, Algonquin Books, documentaries, disability, Jerry's Kids, Fidel Castro, Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, disability activism, Venceremos Brigade, Organization of Disabled Revolutionaries

Columns & Opinion, On Culture May 23, 2013
Richard Cotovsky's life on the fringe, rewarded

After four decades in Chicago theater, the artistic director of Mary-Arrchie gets a special nod from the Jeff Awards.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Deanna Isaacs on Culture, theater, Mary-Arrchie Theatre, JoAnn DeAngelo, Sam Shepard, James Venturini, Kerry Reid, Abbie Hoffman Died for Our Sins, Splinter Group, Richard Cotovsky, Tracy Letts, Superior Donuts, Carlo Lorenzo Garcia, Hans Fleischmann, Austin Pendleton, Mary-Arrchie Theatre Co., Southern Illinois University, University of Illinois at Chicago, UIC, Wisdom Bridge, Theater on the Lake, Columbia College, Blackbird Theater, Americana Theater, Senn High School, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Lanford Wilson, David Cromer, Niles North High School, Jeff Awards, Non-Equity Jeff Awards, Mary-Arrchie Theatre, Angel Island, David Mamet, American Buffalo, William H. Macy, J.J. Johnston, Mike Nussbaum, Jennifer Markowitz

Blogs, Bleader May 3, 2011
January 28, 1977
- By Vera Videnovich
- Tags: Ads From the Past, Inside the Reader, We're Old, Behind Our Scenes, Ads From the Past, Chicago Reader @ Forty, Chicago Reader at Forty, 1970s, David Mamet, A Life In The Theatre, Gregory Mosher, Joe Mantegna, Mike Nussbaum, Goodman Theater, Ruth Page Auditorium, Stage 2

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Feb 4, 2010
Human in Hard Times

Clifford Odets’s Depression classic gets a gripping treatment
- By Zac Thompson
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Awake and Sing, Northlight Theatre, Amy Morton, Cindy Gold, Mike Nussbaum, Jay Whittaker, Clifford Odets

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Not even a first-rate cast can save Curve of Departure

The characters are well drawn, but the story isn't all that compelling.

Gift Theatre's Ten 2018, Filament Theatre's Forts!, and four more new stage shows

A festival of ten-minute plays and an interactive kids' show are among this week's best bets.

Ideation, Token, and nine more stage shows to see now

A dark comedy from Jackalope and a go-for-the-jugular solo performance are among this week's best bets.

TimeLine’s Bakersfield Mist is a true tale gone bad

Playwright Stephen Sachs paints a shallow picture in this art-world saga.

Reader's Agenda Wed 9/24: Smokefall, Spray Paint, and National Bourbon Heritage Month

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Wednesday, September 24

Critics' Picks
Best Performance by an 89-Year-Old (and One of the Better Ones by Anyone of Any Age)

Mike Nussbaum in Smokefall

Recommended
The king of quirk comes through in Smokefall

Noah Haidle's new play goes beyond cute all the way to a vision.

Susan Nussbaum's next act

The celebrated playwright and disability rights activist put down her pen for nearly a decade. But in a new novel, Good Kings Bad Kings, she picks back up where she left off, creating disabled characters who are funny, angry, and vividly human.

Richard Cotovsky's life on the fringe, rewarded

After four decades in Chicago theater, the artistic director of Mary-Arrchie gets a special nod from the Jeff Awards.

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Human in Hard Times

Clifford Odets’s Depression classic gets a gripping treatment

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The characters are well drawn, but the story isn't all that compelling.

A festival of ten-minute plays and an interactive kids' show are among this week's best bets.

A dark comedy from Jackalope and a go-for-the-jugular solo performance are among this week's best bets.

Playwright Stephen Sachs paints a shallow picture in this art-world saga.

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Wednesday, September 24

Mike Nussbaum in Smokefall

Noah Haidle's new play goes beyond cute all the way to a vision.

The celebrated playwright and disability rights activist put down her pen for nearly a decade. But in a new novel, Good Kings Bad Kings, she picks back up where she left off, creating disabled characters who are funny, angry, and vividly human.

After four decades in Chicago theater, the artistic director of Mary-Arrchie gets a special nod from the Jeff Awards.

Clifford Odets’s Depression classic gets a gripping treatment

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