Saturday, November 26, 2011

Assisted Living at Profile

Great to see Stacey Stoltz in this show. And really close to our home!

Chris Jones's plot summary: At the beginning of the play, set near Boston, we meet Anne, a lower-middle-class woman in her late 30s who has put her mostly unenviable life on hold to take care of a raging mother with dementia (whom we hear but do not see). In the first scene, we do see Anne (played, with a deft mix of defiance and sadness by Stacy Stoltz) interviewing a potential home-help aide named Levi (Jordan Stacey, a young actor very adept at holding his character on the edge). Although an incessant talker skilled at leveraging self-deprecation, Levi immediately seems like trouble. By his own admission, he is an alcoholic with a thin resume and a tendency to get fired. But Anne is lonely and stressed, her mom is difficult and sometimes violent, and this guy seems to offers a solution to myriad problems

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Nutcracker at House



















The return of Nutcracker. Much the same as last year, but David Caitlin as Drosselmeyer was a nice addition.

Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Celebration of Chicago Manual of Style

Mr. P, the Chicago Manual geek, went to an event to celebration the history and new edition of CMOS. It was moderated by Alison Cuddy, and included Carol Fisher Saller, Anita Samen, Ben Zimmer (A.M. ’98), and Jason Riggle. Facebooking and Tweeting, oh my.

Tuesday, November 01, 2011

Clybourne Park at Steppenwolf














Bruce Norris's 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning play about race, class and home ownership. This got rave reviews, but we thought it played a bit cartoony.