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UIC Theatre presents “Urinetown: The Musical”
In a Gotham-like city, a terrible water shortage, caused by a 20-year drought, has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. The citizens must use public amenities, regulated by a single malevolent company that profits by charging admission for one of humanity’s most basic needs. Amid the people, a hero decides that he’s had enough and plans a revolution to lead them all to freedom! “Urinetown” is a satirical comedy that premiered in 2001 and won three Tony Awards.
Film Noir as a Key to Adrienne Kennedy’s Style
“Troupe was determined to discover more of what led to Ella’s strangling.” — from Etta and Ella on the Upper West Side by Adrienne Kennedy Troupe, a Black music scholar, peers through the curtains of his brownstone window at the apartment across the street. There sits a woman named Etta, one of his former colleagues. Night after night she incessantly calls him to warn him of an upcoming murder. She’s a prominent Black writer—a playwright—who has a history of warring with her sister.
Incendiary - Woolly Mammoth
S M T W T F S BREAK FREE:Tanya is a Black mother determined to break her son, Eric, out of death row — or die trying. She’ll need guns, to get her hair done, and to f*ck some people up. As time ticks towards the fateful date of Eric’s execution (and birthday), the play explodes into a collision of the hilarious and tragic.
The American Theatre is Not Built for Us
Theatre can be a world of contradictions. It’s a space, it’s an experience. It’s a service, it’s a product. It’s a community builder, it’s a gentrifier. It’s a means of education, a townhall, it’s just entertainment. As a writer-director, I’m looking to connect to an audience, engage the local community, express myself and entertain — so how come I measure my success by ticket sales, sold out crowds and glowing reviews?
A Free Celebration of New Work
Dave Harris, Charlayne Woodard, Cheryl L. West, Rajiv Joseph, Calamity West, Zayd Dohrn Goodman Theatre New Stages Festival runs from October 23 to November 10 Now in its 16th year, Goodman Theatre presents its New Stages Festival–an annual celebration and discovery of new work by some of the country’s finest established and emerging playwrights. Since New Stages Festival’s 2004 inception, more than 80 plays have been produced as a developmental production or staged reading.
New Stages 2019 | Goodman Theatre
The Garden Written and Directed by Charlayne Woodard Saturday, November 9 at 10:30am Claire Rose spends her days in upstate New York, quietly tending her vegetable garden as lovingly as she would nurture a child. When her newlywed daughter, Cassandra, arrives from Seattle hoping to know why mother missed her wedding, she uproots the grief Claire Rose thought was long buried—and now must confront. Recommended for mature audiences.
‘Pass Over’ and the Chicago Theatre Aesthetic
Let me set the scene. A couple of weeks ago, Antoinette Nwandu’s Pass Over opened at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago and rocked the city – folks are still holding on to anything sturdy. Nwandu’s Beckettian take on the plight of the American Black man drops Moses (Jon Michael Hill) and Kitch (Julian Parker) on a lifted cement street corner in an unnamed city. A street light hangs over them like Waiting for Godot’s infamous tree, and beyond that lies a black void. The play isn’t easy.
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