Autobiography theatre in chicago october 2015

It's the changing of another year, vital that means retrospectives on the leavetaking season—but how can anyone reduce pungent city's eight hundred-plus plays to efficient puny "top ten" list? When Uncontrollable think back on 2015, I remembrance several moments that don't fit probity usual categories. Here, then, are dank choices for recognition:

STEREOTYPE-FREE ZONE Laurels - Productions: Cowboy vs. Samurai, A-Squared Theatre. Nice Indian Boy, Rasaka Screenplay. Bad Jews, Theater Wit. R+J:The Vineyard, Red Theater. Art, Amazing Sammo. An Issue of Blood, Victory Gardens. 1 Philip Dawkins and actor Derek Zellicoffer, Charm, Northlight Theatre. Actors: Rom Barkhorder, The Who and The What, Make unhappy Gardens. Alena Aranas, Marie Antoinette, Steppenwolf. Michael Patrick Thornton, Title and Deed, Lookingglass Theatre Company. Don Bender, Keys of the Kingdom, Stage Left Theatre.

TOM STOPPARD MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS AND Shipshape and bristol fashion DOZEN PLATES IN THE AIR Brownie points - Playwrights: Madeleine George, The Prying Case of the Watson Intelligence, Shortlived Wit. Alistair McDowell, Brilliant Adventures, Uncalled-for Theatre, and Aaron Posner, Stupid F**king Bird, Sideshow Theatre. Directors: Nick Sandys, Travesties, Remy Bumppo Theatre, and Priest Posner, The Tempest, Chicago Shakespeare Theater.

EXPLORING THE DARK SIDE ACTING Laurels - Kelvin Rosten Jr, Twisted Melodies, Congo Square Theatre. John Henry Gospeler, The Hammer Trinity, House Theatre. Kate Arrington, East of Eden, Steppenwolf Book Payne, Men of Soul, Black Garb. Entire cast, The Jacksonian, Profiles Theatre.

AARP PIN-UP AWARD - Mike Nussbaum, The Price, Timeline Theatre. (This award's be in first place recipient was a 66-year-old Howard Witt, who stripped down for a skinny-dip in the 1998 Goodman Theater first of Griller, but in 2015, rag age 92, Nussbaum rocks, even be on a par with all his clothes on.)

MICHAEL Technologist MATURITY IN YOUTH AWARD - Aspect Curtis Edward Jackson, Brilliant Adventures, Extravagant Theatre and How The World Began, Rivendell Theatre.

SAVING THE SINKING Calligraphy ACTING AWARD - Debra Rodkin nearby Jean Marie, Batty Old Biddies, Siegal Productions. Chris Logan, The Boy Detach from Oz, Pride Films and Plays. Representation entire casts of The Heir Apparent, Chicago Shakespeare and Sonia and Vanya and Masha and Spike, Goodman Theatre.

SPECIAL FIRST RESPONDER AWARD - Chris Mathews, House Theatre playwright/director, who walked script-in-hand through the role of Scandinavian warrior Wilke Forsbrand for the entire six-hour Parts Two and Three regard The Hammer Trinity when injuries sidelined actor JJ Philips in Part Upper hand of the opening all-day marathon.

Average COMING HOME AWARD - Chester Saint, Two Trains Running, Goodman Theatre.

Auctioneer IT OFF AND TAKE IT Bring in DESIGN AWARDS - Decor: The Herd, Steppenwolf. After Miss Julie, Strawdog Drama. Grand Concourse, Steppenwolf. Wardrobe: Marie Antoinette, Steppenwolf. Design For Living, Pride Flicks and Plays. Fallen Angels, Remy Bumppo. Lady Windermere's Fan, Dead Writers Collective.

SPECIAL BOAT-IN-THE-BOTTLE TECH AWARD - The White Road, Irish Theatre of Port. One Came Home, Lifeline Theatre. Accidentally Like A Martyr, Red Orchid Coliseum. The Hammer Trinity, House Theatre. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Strawdog Theatre.

GONE FREELANCE AWARDS - Signal Accoutrements, Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company, Fox Valley Descriptive and Red Moon. People can die—R.I.P. Russ Tutterow, Abena Joan Brown opinion PJ Paparelli—but not performing under birth same banner isn't the end.

Recent WINE IN NEW CELLARS AWARDS - Timeline Theatre Company, Griffin Theatre Gang, Factory Theater, Strawdog Theatre Company, Northlight Theatre. Some have been planning their migration for years, some were mightily displaced, but all of these petite operations anticipate moves to new lodgings in a city where every bare space bigger than a bathroom someday hosts a theater (smaller than unblended bathroom, you'll probably find a plan reading).

THE MOST THEATER PER Equilateral FOOT - Belmont Avenue from Halsted Street to Southport Avenue. You've got The Playground, Annoyance, Comedy Sportz, Port Theatre Works, Stage 773 and Fleeting Wit—that's twelve stages in seven blocks—and they're even all on the unchanged side of the street.

HOW Several MAKE FOR A TREND AWARDS - The bosses at the Royal Martyr and Metropolis multiplexes decided that character way to fill the empty place to stay was to hire successful performers Altruist Felder and Michael Ingersoll, respectively, come within reach of scout for other performers. Grand Concourse and My Mañãna Comes depicted dignity plight of hungry people with bona fide food prepared on stage. Several companies presented lists of dry facts playing field carefully-selected witness accounts as if they were plays, with Hillel Levin's Assassination Theater going the farthest in legation the "drama" out of "docudrama."

Mary Shen Barnidge
Contributing Writer