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  • Born to Puppeteer

    By on March 28, 2012

    When Basil Twist saw Joey Arias flirting with his puppets, he knew it was fate. ''They had so much chemistry together,'' Twist says. ''The puppets...

  • Comedy Accompli

    By on December 15, 2011

    A little edgy, a little existential and a lot funny, Second City's Spoiler Alert: Everybody Dies, is a high-energy riff on the idea, more or...

  • Woolly Mammoth and Second City join forces

    By on December 6, 2011

    Woolly Mammoth isn’t just hosting Chicago’s The Second City to offer more off-the-wall improv humor as in years past. Rather, Woolly’s company members Jessica Frances...

  • Kiss and Tell

    By on September 22, 2011

    Do you remember your first kiss with a lover? The moment you let your guard down and melt into another person can be a mind-altering,...

  • Editor’s Pick: Woolly Mammoth revisits Clybourne Park

    By on July 20, 2011

    Woolly Mammoth reprises its production of Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park, after having won a couple Helen Hayes Awards and this year’s Pulitzer Prize. As Metro...

  • Candy Land

    By on June 9, 2011

    ''The work should be work,'' admonishes playwright-director Robert O'Hara's semi-autobiographical avatar in Bootycandy, a collection of 10 short plays receiving a snazzy, saucy world-premiere production...

  • The Ringleader

    By on June 2, 2011

    Robert O'Hara, the 41-year-old playwright whose latest work, Bootycandy, is having its world premiere run at Washington's Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, is very familiar with...

  • Lights Up

    By on March 31, 2011

    The American musical wasn't born overnight. Like any art form, it came to be in fits and starts. Even today, some audience members -- and...

  • Hot Pick: The Agony and the Ecstacy of Steve Jobs

    By on March 24, 2011

    Following his smash hit monologue The Last Cargo Cult, Mike Daisey pulls back the curtain veiling America’s most mysterious technology icon. With a wickedly funny...

  • Modern Approach

    By on February 16, 2011

    Luis Alfaro got turned on to the theater when he was 15 as part of community service -- literally. ''I actually got arrested for shoplifting...

  • Funny Ladies

    By on December 29, 2010

    ''You don't hear as many legitimate conversations about foreign policy in Chicago as you do ,'' says Brooke Breit of Chicago's Second City. You...

  • Good Cheer

    By on December 15, 2010

    Despite the valiant attempts being made in some corners, the bright bauble of reality television has eclipsed what was once television's most reliable version of...

  • A Girl’s Guide to Washington Politics at Woolly Mammoth

    By on December 12, 2010

    Following on last year’s hit, Barack Stars, Chicago’s notorious and uproarious The Second City returns with A Girl’s Guide to Washington Politics, a new political...

  • House of Gold at Woolly Mammoth

    By on November 21, 2010

    In House of Gold, Sarah Benson directs a first-rate cast including Mitchell Hebert and Michael Russotto in a darkly funny story, written by young playwright...

  • The Vibrator Play at Woolly Mammoth

    By on August 27, 2010

    Aaron Posner directs Sarah Ruhl’s 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony-nominated In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play, kicking off Woolly Mammoth’s 31st season....