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At the Athenaeum Center for Thought and Culture, Prop Thtr’s 41st season return to in-person programming is the eagerly stale The Cleanup. For Prop Thtr, which bills itself as “Chicago’s home for radical art,” The Cleanup is disappointingly familiar. This is a play about parenting during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, where two parents in crumbling...
This October at the Redtwist Theatre in the Edgewater neighborhood of Chicago, the Three Crows ensemble theater company has crafted an intriguing, if imperfect, iteration of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Three Crows’s mission is accessibility and Redtwist’s is intimacy; together, the visions work well. Tickets are pay-what-you-can, and the small black box theater seats only about 30...
Shown this fall at Steppenwolf Theatre, James Ijames’s The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington is a grotesque, dark, darkly humorous, and energetic exploration of America’s original sin: slavery. On a stage ringed by cotton fields, the Pulitzer Prize–winning Ijames depicts Miz Martha Washington’s feverish final moments in bed. When she dies, her hundreds...
Georgia Ann Zink, a longtime resident of Verona, passed away on Tuesday, September 20, 2022, at the age of 72.
Diana Riggs, age 87, was born on March 20, 1935, in Marshalltown, Iowa. She, and her twin brother, Theodore Henry Schnormeier, grew up in Hubbard, Iowa where they graduated from Hubbard High School in 1952. They were the only children of August F. and Helene Luiken Schnormeier. Diana attended Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri where…