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Odyssey for Middle-Aged, Mid-Western Couple
In contrast to his usual cast of strange characters doing odd things, it seems to me that this time Tracy Letts—see the picture above from Chicago Magazine with a nice article on the author and his plays— looks closely at the fairly normal characters he grew up with; he notes some of their charm or [… Read More]
Venture Theatre Scores Again
This was an interesting and really well-done performance of Miss Saigon, a musical take-off from Madame Butterfly. Mr Wood continues his masterly direction of all things from Venture Theatre. The necessity of the audience having ‘movies in their mind’ was brought out fairly quickly in the first song. Anyone over 40 something had those movies [… Read More]
The Full Monty
Today’s Gazette featured a promo for this fun musical with only brief and necessary-for-art nudity according to the powers that be. They call these guys courageous. I won’t be seeing it until early October as I want them to be highly practiced in their art before I allow them to put their thingies out for [… Read More]
The Clean House @ Venture Theatre
You know how when you play tennis against someone much better than you and they hit the ball at you very hard and if you manage to hit it back it really moves, giving you the illusion that you are getting better? Well, that is the feeling I got watching the latest offering at Venture [… Read More]
Live Music Tonight!
If you’re going to be out and about this evening and want to enjoy some great live music, food, beverages and camaraderie then today it your lucky day. Head on down to The Rex (2401 Montana Ave.) from 5-8 p.m. for Alive After Five. The Jared Stewart Band will be performing for free and when [… Read More]