David Cromer’s "Our Town" coming to NYC

Posted on December 15, 2008 by Scotty Zacher

As reported on Playbill.com and the Chicago Tribune’s blog “The Theater Loop” by Chris Jones, David Cromer’s acclaimed Chicago production of Our Town, by Thorton Wilder, will make a reappearance in Spring 2009 at an Off-Broadway theatre.  This is becoming something of a trend for David Cromer, as his production of The Adding Machine [...]

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Chicago Tribune’s Top Plays of 2007

Posted on January 12, 2008 by Scotty Zacher

In alphabetical order, here are the Chicago Tribune’s choices for the top 10 plays of 2007:
 
The Adding Machine
(Next Theatre – and soon Off-Broadway)

August: Osage County
(Steppenwolf – and now receiving rave reviews on Broadway)

Between Barack and a Hard Place
(Second City)

The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow
(Collaboraction)

Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
(Congo Square)

Merchant on Venice
(Silk Road Theatre Project)

Othello
(Writers Theatre)

Shenendoah
(Marriott [...]

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Review – Next Theatre’s "The Adding Machine"

Posted on February 4, 2007 by Scotty Zacher

The Adding Machine: A Chamber Musical is an intriguing, hard-to-pigeonhole piece of musical theatre. With music by Josh Schmidt and a libretto by Schmidt and Jason Loewith, The Adding Machine is a through-sung work with glimpses of Sondheim’s Passion, Guettel’s A Light in the Piazza and LaChuisa’s Wild Party. Nonetheless, it is set apart [...]

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