The Woman in White, the audience in blankets

A Victorian mystery novel gets adapted for the Lifeline Theatre stage.

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October 9, 2012

A play within a play about theater cliches

Put your meta-hat on, because this is going to be one wild ride.

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May 20, 2011

Filament's muses sing of fate and tragedy

Filament Theater breaks the barrier between play and audience in Eurydice and Orpheus.

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April 29, 2011

"Happiness" examines love and art in academia

"There is a Happiness That Morning Is" delivers love and scandal in iambic pentameter.

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April 26, 2011

Arlecchino's Odyssey redefines theater

All you need are words and gestures.

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April 19, 2011

Hookups and life of the mind not mutually exclusive

In response to "Nothing U of C about UChicago hook-up site" (April 1)

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April 12, 2011

Strawdog Theatre masters classic Russian novel

Strawdog's adaptation captures the essence of The Master and Margarita with an appropriate reverence for the original.

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March 8, 2011

Lifeline fails to resurrect Collins's classic mystery

Collins's dynamic characters and narrative structure get lost in translation

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March 4, 2011

If two is not a winner, and three no one remembers, what about Number 4?

I Am Number Four makes a muddled mash-up of sci-fi and rom-com

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February 18, 2011

Funk It Up suffocates Shakespeare without rhyme or reason

Shakespeare’s universality is buried under unnecessary attempts to modernize him.

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February 4, 2011