fragments inspired by stage and screen
[Original published in The Clyde Fitch Report, July 12, 2018.] Six actors and a fake baby in sequential performances dramatize one woman’s life journey in Tracy Letts’ Mary Page Marlowe at Second Stage’s […]
[article originally published in HowlRound, December 10, 2015.] Small Town-ish in a Really Good Way For a heady period of time in the spring of 2014, playwright Will Eno had two […]
Visions of playwrights and critics can inspire images of dramatic scenes. Colleagues from Chicago tell a story about a certain critic arriving at the lobby of a show and being […]
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? By Edward Albee Directed by Pam MacKinnon Featuring Tracy Letts, Amy Morton Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s Production Booth Theatre, 222 West 45th Street October 13, 2012 […]
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? By Edward Albee Directed by Pam MacKinnon Featuring Tracy Letts, Amy Morton Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s Production Arena Stage, 1101 Sixth Street SW, Washington DC February […]
[originally published: http://aislesay.com/CHI-BETRAYAL.html] BETRAYAL by Harold Pinter Directed by Rick Snyder Featuring Ian Barford, Tracy Letts, and Amy Morton Steppenwolf Theatre Company Upstairs Theatre 1650 N. Halsted Street / (312) 335-1650 / http://www.steppenwolf.org/ Through May 27, 2007 Reviewed by Martha Wade Steketee February 9, 2007 The lovely Steppenwolf upstairs theatre and its proscenium set for this production incorporates two entrances, one room, […]
[originally published: http://aislesay.com/CHI-PILLOWMAN.html%5D THE PILLOWMAN by Martin McDonagh Directed by Amy Morton Steppenwolf Theatre Company Downstairs Theatre 1650 N. Halsted / (312) 335-1650 / www.steppenwolf.org Through November 12, 2006 Reviewed by Martha Wade Steketee September 26, 2006 Four characters in a police station, and four actors portraying imagined or remembered scenes from stories and memories thickly populate the stage of the […]
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