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The New Coordinates (TNC), formerly The New Colony, has announced its 2022 season, to presented at its resident home, The Den Theatre, 1331 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood.
Sleep, awakeness, psychosis, enlightenment, coma. How thin is the veil that separates them? Odyssey Theatre Ensemble artistic director Ron Sossi explores some of the many states of human awareness with an evening of short “mind excursions” by Harold Pinter with Robert Coover and Hermann Hesse. Collectively titled Wakings!, the metaphysical adventure begins Saturday, April 30, with performances continuing through June 5.
>> derrick, i'll give you the last word on this because you with the work that you do at the naacp, you recognize the reality and the impact of race in frankly every facet of our systems in america. when you think about this, are you concerned about the blueprint effect of something like this now that other jurisdictions may say, hey, the supreme court's not going to weigh in. it's too close to an election. maybe we should turn out and crank out the remaining less than 20 maps that need to be done to eliminate competitive seats. is that a concern? >> it's a huge concern, particularly for the s...
Public roads for three miles smiling at astonished drivers along the way. he liked tinkering. when he was a one-star general living in fortt carson, colorado, he inexplicably became fascinated with mechanical adding machines. he would buy them by the palette at auction and try to get the machines to work. at one point there were so many adding machine he had to store them in the garage refrigerator. i suppose every general needs a signature exindustriesity. george patton had revolvers and colin powell had adding machines. his zest for life derived from his enless passion for people. he was gen...
Last modified on Thu 7 Jan 2021 01.02 EST Not many plays introduce a new word to the language. One that did was Karel Äapekâs RUR: Rossumâs Universal Robots that had its premiere in Prague 100 years ago this month. Every time we use the word ârobotâ to denote a humanoid machine, it derives from Äapekâs play, which coined the term from the Czech ârobotaâ meaning forced labour. But a play that was hugely popular in its time â its Broadway premiere in 1922 had a cast that included Spencer Tracy and Pat OâBrien as robots â has now fallen int...