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Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 29, 2019
Organic Theater takes a bold stab at The Memo, Václav Havel's absurdist satire

Bureaucracy, sweet bureaucracy!
- By Dan Jakes
- Tags: Theater Review, The Memo, Organic Theater Company, Václav Havel, Tricia Rogers, Joel Moses, Bryan Wakefield, Nick Bryant, Mary Mikva

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jun 8, 2018
Tiresias Was a Weatherman is an Antigone for our age of extreme weather and constant medication

Organic Theater Company tackles climate change, Big Pharma, family dysfunction, the evils of the media machine, and too much else for one play.
- By Dmitry Samarov
- Tags: Theater Review, tiresias, greek, antigone, jaime mire, annabelle, organic theater company, greenhouse theater center, rain, wind, sun, thunder, big pharma, josh anderson

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jun 6, 2018
The Revolutionists undermines its own powerful message with too much cutesiness

But Olympe de Gouges and the other women of the French Revolution are worth knowing.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, The Revolutionists, Organic Theater Company, French Revolution, Lauren Gunderson, Bryan Wakefield, Reign of Terror

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Feb 9, 2017
Ballet, bad dates, and ‘The Bowman Brothers Radio Hour’: Notes from the fringe at Rhinofest

The 28th iteration of Curious Theatre Branch’s annual festival continues through February 26.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, Rhinofest, Curious Theatre Branch, Prop Thtr, fringe theater festival, fringe festival, Best of The Bowman Brothers Radio Hour, MItch Salm, Brian Byrne, Adam Webster, Footnotes for an Apology, Eileen Tull, Bad Dates, or What Killed That Monkey in Indiana Jones Only Makes Me Stronger, Harrison Ford, Penultimate Mohicans, .44 Cromagnum, Organic Theater Company, Mine-Haha, or On the Bodily Education of Young Girls

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Oct 1, 2016
Cheers Live, Dog Night, The Happiest Place on Earth, and nine more new theater reviews

The latest Chicago stage shows range from the rawly emotional to the enjoyably ridiculous.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Cheers Live on Stage, Broadway in Chicago, Nich Radcliffe, Organic Theater Company, Joe Mantegna, Open Space Theater, Bleacher Bums, Northlight Theatre, Anthony Giardina, The City of Conversation, Lia D. Mortensen, Marti Lyons, Chicago theater, Pulse Theatre, The Colored Museum, George C. Wolfe, ETA Creative Arts Foundation, Aaron Mitchell Reese, Demetra Drayton, Ekia Thomas, Dead Children, The Side Project Theatre Company, Robert Tenges, Erik Wagner, Kirsten D'Aurelio, Adam Webster, Victoria Gilbert, Dog Night, Rabid Bat Theatricals, North Lakeshore Cultural Center, Gunder House, Philip Dawkins, The Happiest Place on Earth, Disneyland, Jonathan L. Green, Greenhouse Theater Center, Genesis Theatricals Productions, The People's Choice, Philip Pinkus, political satire, Baby Wants Candy, Game of Thrones, Thrones! A Musical Parody, Nick Druzbanski, Caitlyn Cerza, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, pH Theater, William Finn, Rachel Sheinkin, Erin Elisabeth Smith, Jason Geis, Filament Theatre, The Van Gogh Cafe, Community Tavern, Portage Park, Cynthia Rylant, Julia Ritchie, Visiting Edna, David Rabe, Steppenwolf Theatre, Anna D. Shapiro, Donterrio Johnson

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Jun 8, 2016
Steppenwolf's Constellations and Voice Lessons, and 13 more new stage shows

An endless meet-cute and an off-key farce are among this week's notable plays.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Caught, Sideshow Theatre Company, Christopher Chen, Seth Bockley, Ben Chang, Helen Young, Victory Gardens Theater, Cocksucker, The Annoyance Theatre, The Box, Jeff Blim, Jon Matteson, Eric Schinzer, Steppenwolf Theatre, Constellations, Jon Michael Hill, Jessie Fisher, Nick Payne, Jonathan Berry, Slimtack Theatre Company, Cowboy Mouth, Sam Shepard, Patti Smith, The Cure, Walkabout Theater Company, Emma Stanton, Dana Murphy, Nigel Brown, Chicago Cultural Center, Sidney R. Yates Gallery, The Good Doctor, Neil Simon, Anton Chekhov, Organic Theater Company, Josh Anderson, Sara Copeland, Jim Heatherly, Cuckoo's Theater Project, Carlo Gozzi, The Green Bird, commedia dell'arte, The Love of Three Oranges, Amber Lee Olivier, Hillary DePiano, Kegan Witzki, My Fair Lady, Light Opera Works, Lerner and Loewe, Elizabeth Telford, Roger Bingaman, Rudy Hogenmiller, Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen, Robert Kauzlaric, Lifeline Theatre, George Howe, Stephanie Stocksill, Will Burdin, Out of the Blue, Vladimir Zaytsev, Sherlock Holmes, Portage Park, Filament Theatre Company, Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Portage Park, Voice Lessons, Laurie Metcalf, French Stewart, The Program, Jamie Brew, Clickhole, The Onion, Sameena Mustafa, Anthony Bourdain, Joe Schermoly, First Floor Theater, World Builders, Johnna Adams, Carmen Molina, Andrew Cutler, Jesse Roth, American Theater Company, PJ Papparelli, Xanadu, Lilli-Anne Brown, Landree Fleming, Arnel Sancianco, Jim DeSelm, Olivia Newton-John

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature May 4, 2016
Mike Mother, Best of Enemies, The 180 Degree Rule, and eight more stage shows to see now

A Neo-Futurist performance piece, a drama about an almost unimaginable alliance, and a satire of Hollywood's golden age are among the hits this week.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, iO, Vienna Juvenile, Matt Besser, Layne Dixon, Provision Theater, Best of Enemies, Osha Gray Davidson, Mark St. Germain, C.P. Ellis, Ann Atwater, Rod Armentrout, Felicia Fields, Collaboraction, Anthony Moseley, Rivendell Theatre, Dry Land, Ruby Rae Spiegel, Hallie Gordon, Bryce Gangel, Jessica Ervin, Curious Theatre Branch, The Eviller Twin, Sue Cargill, Stefan Brün, Raven Theatre, House of Blue Leaves, John Guare, JoAnn Montemurro, Kelli Strickland, Sarah Hayes, Lyric Opera, The King and I, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Paolo Montalban, Kate Baldwin, Ali Ewoldt, Rona Figueroa, Matthew Uzarraga, Théâtre du Châtelet, Mike Mother, Neo-Futurarium, Jessica Anne, Mike Hamilton, Marsha Norman, 'Night, Mother, Babes With Blades, The 180 Degree Rule, M.E.H. Lewis, Barbara Lhota, Rachel Edwards Harvith, Lisa Herceg, Stage 773, Skin in the Game, one-act festival, The Living Canvas, Cathedral, Right Brain Project, the Ruckus, Hobo Junction Productions, Organic Theater Company, pH Comedy, Thanks for the Tip, Kayce Alltop, Dan Wright, Jared Miller, Theatre Y, 3 Sisters, Andrej Visky, Melissa Lorraine, Katie Stimpson, Kevlyn Hayes, Anton Chekhov, Earl H.E. Hill, Dan Christmann

Blogs, Bleader Jun 27, 2013
"David Mamet warned me that this would break my heart"

Stuart Gordon on losing the fight to save the Hull House theater
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Arts, Architecture, News, Stuart Gordon, Hull House Theater, Organic Theater Company, Pegasus Players

Columns & Opinion, On Culture Jun 25, 2013
Curtains for the Uptown Hull House Center theater

An 11th-hour effort fails to save the longtime home of Organic and Black Ensemble theater companies.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: On Culture, Stuard Gordon, Organic Theater Company, David Gassman, theater, architecture, William Petersen, William H. Macy, Jim Belushi, Joe Mantegna, George Wendt, Bob Sickinger, Off-Loop theater, Hull House, David Mamet, Jackie Taylor, Black Ensemble Theater, Pegasus Players, Rahm Emanuel, Uptown, Crombie Taylor, James Cappleman, City Council, Jim Jacobs, League of Chicago Theatres, Deb Clapp, Ward Miller, Preservation Chicago, Ilesa Duncan, Nick Rabkin, zoning, preservation, development, Uptown Hull House Center

Blogs, Bleader Jun 12, 2013
An eleventh-hour online petition seeks to save Uptown's Hull House theater

Online petition seeks to save Uptown's historic Hull House theater.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Theater, Arts, Architecture, Clout City, News, Hull House Theater, Leo Lerner Theatre, Organic Theater Company, Black Ensemble Theater, Joe Mantegna, William H. Macy, William Petersen, Jim Belushi, George Wendt, Bob Sickinger, James Cappleman

Blogs, Bleader Apr 24, 2011
Ads From the Past: June 18, 1976
- By Vera Videnovich
- Tags: Inside the Reader, Ads From the Past, Behind Our Scenes, Ads From the Past, Chicago Reader @ Forty, Chicago Reader at Forty, Switch Bitch, Organic Theater Company, Roald Dahl, Stuart Gordon, Cordis Fejer, Richard Fire, Dennis Franz, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, William J. Norris, Jonathan Perthree, Maher Ahmad, Laura Crow, Uptown Center Hull House, 1970s, 1976

Columns & Opinion, On Culture Feb 21, 2008
A Sour Note

Having brought Northwestern the idea for the American Music Theatre Project, Stuart Oken thought he had a future there.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: On Culture, Stuart Oken, Northwestern University, American Music Theatre Project, Joseph Thalken, Barry Kleinbort, Dominic Missimi, AMTP, Dangerous Beauty, Organic Theater Company, Disney Theatrical Productions, Michael Leavitt, Five Cent Productions, Elephant Eye, The Boys Are Coming Home

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Organic Theater takes a bold stab at The Memo, Václav Havel's absurdist satire

Bureaucracy, sweet bureaucracy!

Tiresias Was a Weatherman is an Antigone for our age of extreme weather and constant medication

Organic Theater Company tackles climate change, Big Pharma, family dysfunction, the evils of the media machine, and too much else for one play.

The Revolutionists undermines its own powerful message with too much cutesiness

But Olympe de Gouges and the other women of the French Revolution are worth knowing.

Ballet, bad dates, and ‘The Bowman Brothers Radio Hour’: Notes from the fringe at Rhinofest

The 28th iteration of Curious Theatre Branch’s annual festival continues through February 26.

Cheers Live, Dog Night, The Happiest Place on Earth, and nine more new theater reviews

The latest Chicago stage shows range from the rawly emotional to the enjoyably ridiculous.

Steppenwolf's Constellations and Voice Lessons, and 13 more new stage shows

An endless meet-cute and an off-key farce are among this week's notable plays.

Mike Mother, Best of Enemies, The 180 Degree Rule, and eight more stage shows to see now

A Neo-Futurist performance piece, a drama about an almost unimaginable alliance, and a satire of Hollywood's golden age are among the hits this week.

"David Mamet warned me that this would break my heart"

Stuart Gordon on losing the fight to save the Hull House theater

Curtains for the Uptown Hull House Center theater

An 11th-hour effort fails to save the longtime home of Organic and Black Ensemble theater companies.

An eleventh-hour online petition seeks to save Uptown's Hull House theater

Online petition seeks to save Uptown's historic Hull House theater.

Ads From the Past: June 18, 1976

A Sour Note

Having brought Northwestern the idea for the American Music Theatre Project, Stuart Oken thought he had a future there.

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Bureaucracy, sweet bureaucracy!

Organic Theater Company tackles climate change, Big Pharma, family dysfunction, the evils of the media machine, and too much else for one play.

But Olympe de Gouges and the other women of the French Revolution are worth knowing.

The 28th iteration of Curious Theatre Branch’s annual festival continues through February 26.

The latest Chicago stage shows range from the rawly emotional to the enjoyably ridiculous.

An endless meet-cute and an off-key farce are among this week's notable plays.

A Neo-Futurist performance piece, a drama about an almost unimaginable alliance, and a satire of Hollywood's golden age are among the hits this week.

Stuart Gordon on losing the fight to save the Hull House theater

An 11th-hour effort fails to save the longtime home of Organic and Black Ensemble theater companies.

Online petition seeks to save Uptown's historic Hull House theater.

Having brought Northwestern the idea for the American Music Theatre Project, Stuart Oken thought he had a future there.

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