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Lookingglass Theatre announces new leadership, including permanent role for David Schwimmer (opens the original)
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Lookingglass Theatre announced a new ensemble-driven leadership team this week that includes co-founder David Schwimmer as the company’s producing director. The Tony-award winning company will bring four longtime ensemble members into its newly formed leadership structure, along with Schwimmer, known for his years playing Ross on the hit NBC sitcom “Friends.” Please check your inbox for your confirmation. Sorry, there was an error registering your email. Ensemble members Ericka Ratcliff, who is
Review: ‘The Humanities’ looks away from the campus culture wars it purports to interrogate (opens the original)
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Sometimes in theater, timing is everything. I’ve seen that work in a playwright’s favor, such as a play about a Queen (“Coronation” by Refracted Theatre), premiering in the weeks after Trump’s 2024 election. In other cases, writing plays on slippery and ever-changing contemporary themes can put pressure on the writer to do more to respond to the moment. That’s what happened the last time Zayd Ayers Dohrn premiered a play. “Revolution(s)” opened at Goodman Theatre in the height of Operation Midwa
Comedian Lil Rel on why he chose his native Chicago for his next comedy special and a weeklong laugh fest (opens the original)
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Comedian Lil Rel Howrey has come a long way from Chicago’s West Side and from his early days as a standup comic here. But lately, he’s spent a lot of time on screen, with credits that include a role in Jordan Peele’s Academy Award-winning film “Get Out,” NBC’s “The Carmichael Show” and even his own sitcom, “Rel,” on FOX. Now, he’s coming home. Last weekend, Howrey filmed his latest standup special at Black Ensemble Theatre. The homecoming show is part of the What’s Funny Comedy Festival, running
Lil Rel on why he chose his native Chicago for his next comedy special and a weeklong laugh fest (opens the original)
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Comedian Lil Rel Howery has come a long way from Chicago’s West Side and from his early days as a standup comic here. But lately, he’s spent a lot of time on screen, with credits that include a role in Jordan Peele’s Academy Award-winning film “Get Out,” NBC’s “The Carmichael Show” and even his own sitcom, “Rel,” on FOX. Now, he’s coming home. Last weekend, Howery filmed his latest standup special at Black Ensemble Theatre. The homecoming show is part of the What’s Funny Comedy Festival, running
Review: Eta Creative Arts Foundation's staging of ‘Detroit '67’ examines conflict between two siblings amid backdrop of civil unrest (opens the original)
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When the lights come up on the set of Dominique Morisseau’s “Detroit ’67,” now playing at eta Creative Arts Foundation, the first sound the audience hears is The Temptations’ 1966 hit “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg.” The song works on two levels: It inspired Morisseau’s Tony-nominated jukebox musical, “Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations,” which propelled the Detroit native into national recognition as a playwright. The song also foreshadows the events of this historical family drama
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