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An Apology for the Course & Outcome of Certain Events Delivered by Doctor John Faustus on this His Final Evening
John Beer
Issue 2
| Winter, 2010

The fall of 2009 saw something of an apotheosis for Chicago theater. Following in the wake of Tracy Letts’s Pulitzer-winning August: Osage County—an epic family drama in the grand American tradition of O’Neill, Miller and Williams—a pair of plays set in …
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Gatz
John Beer
Issue 1
| Spring, 2009

At a time of exceedingly diminished expectations for the theater, few productions are more welcome than the Elevator Repair Service’s dazzling and conceptually rigorous Gatz, which played for a weekend last fall at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art. Simply put, Gatz is a …
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