Acting lesson from Jeremy Piven
“I can’t start a lawnmower. I can’t fix a sink. I
can’t do taxes,” admits Evanston native Jeremy Piven during a recent
break from filming his hit HBO series “Entourage.” “But I do know how to
act, and I was lucky enough to be born into an amazing family that
embraces you, and lets you know that you’re enough.”
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Art's at issue in new play "Permanent Collection"
Is Bach’s music better than rap? Are Shakespeare’s
Sonnets superior to folk tales? Is an impressionistic painting by Renoir
more important to the world than an African mask? Those questions, and
more importantly, our answers and reasons for answering them the way we
do, is at the crux of the story in Thomas Gibbons’ play “Permanent
Collection.”
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Back for seconds
“Yes and …” might be the most valuable phrase in
the art of improvisational comedy, at least according to the artistic
staff of “Sex and The Second City,” the comedy troupe’s new “comedic
musical revue” about the battle of the sexes.
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Gilbert & Sullivan's lost show
On Boxing Day 1871, while most working-class
Londoners enjoyed the day off, first-time collaborators W.S. Gilbert and
Arthur Sullivan scurried about backstage, putting finishing touches on
their debut production of “Thespis, or The Gods Grown Old,” a
topsy-turvy tale about a theatrical troupe whose members take over the
roles of Greek gods on Mount Olympus.
Sometime after its healthy run of 64 performances,
however, a mysterious thing happened. The music for the Gilbert and
Sullivan operetta disappeared.
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Theater of magic
Magician Mike Super only requires his audience to
bring one thing to a show: “the willingness to suspend their disbelief.”
It’s no coincidence that his requirement might
sound like a quote from a theater-arts textbook. For Super, magic is the
purest form of theater.
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