fragments inspired by stage and screen
[Full article published in The Theatre Times, May 12, 2018.] GOODMAN’S RESIDENT DRAMATURG ON HOW HER WORK GIVES TEXTURE AND SPECIFICITY TO A PRODUCTION. Consider the riddle of Neena Arndt’s work at the Goodman […]
The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O’Neill Directed by Robert Falls Featuring Brian Dennehy, Nathan Lane, Kate Arrington, John Judd Goodman Theatre, 170 N. Dearborn, Chicago May 3, 2012 — June 17, […]
[Repost of a blog entry I posted on the Association for Women Journalists web site at the end of the initial year (2007-2008) of the Young Critics Circle project (also called the Cindy Bandle Young Critics program) co-administered by AWJ and the Education Department of the Goodman Theatre to train high school age women in the art and wonders of […]
[originally published: http://aislesay.com/CHI-VIGILS.html%5D VIGILS by Noah Haidle Directed by Kate Whoriskey Goodman Theatre 170 North Dearborn / (312) 443-3800 http://www.goodman-theatre.org Through November 12, 2006 Reviewed by Martha Wade Steketee October 24, 2006 Playwright Noah Haidle has created in “Vigils” yet another imaginative landscape that is a clear next step from his regional favorite “Mr. Marmalade” of several seasons past. In that […]
[originally published: http://aislesay.com/CHI-LEAR-06.html] KING LEAR by William Shakespeare Directed by Robert Falls Starring Stacy Keach Goodman Theatre 170 North Dearborn / (312) 443-3800 goodmantheatre.org Extended Through October 22, 2006 Reviewed by Martha Wade Steketee September 27, 2006 In “King Lear” at the Goodman Theatre we are told repeatedly, by various characters in various ways, that “nothing can come from nothing”. In […]
urban excavations 