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Chicago Theatre Off Book is the new voice of community collaboration on CHIRP. Every week, Off Book features Chicago leaders in performing arts entertainment. From small storefronts to the big warhorses, Off Book focuses on what’s happening on the Chicagoland theatrical landscape. With reviews, interviews and one-minute audio-plays, Off Book showcases the local talents driving Chicago’s dynamic theatre force. Hosted by Actor Joshua J. Volkers and Reviewer Katy Walsh from The Fourth Walsh, Off Book is where Chicago meets to discuss artistic innovation.
Chicago Theatre Off Book Chicago Theatre Off Book: Sept. 07, 2012 Ed.
Today, Chicago Theatre Off Book is reviewing exciting offerings from local theatre companies: “Sweet and Sad” at Profiles Theater, “Skin Tight” by Cor Theatre and “Steady Rain” by Chicago Commercial Collective. And Off Book talks with special guests: Bob Fisher, Founder of The Mammals and Jerry Tietz, General Manager of Chicago Opera Theater. And of course, we have 2 new Got A Minute? segments, one from a local playwright and an aria from “Magic Flute.”
MARTY’S MARTINI BAR!
September 30th, 2pm – 5pm, 1511 W. Balmoral
No Tickets No Cover Charge All you need to do is drink!
Drink and Off Book raises $$$ to produce our show!
Door Prizes: Lifeline Theatre tickets and National Theatre of Scotland “BLACKWATCH” tickets
This September 7, 2012 episode of Chicago Theatre Off Book was partially underwritten by The Alliance.
Shot word of the day: Beast
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Artist Interviews Serengeti
On location at the Chicago Media League softball night in Kosciuszko Park, Dylan Peterson talked with CHIRP’s unlikely starting pitcher, Anticon’s Serengeti. 2012 saw the release of the Kenny Dennis EP and C.A.R. full-length, two radically different albums from this enigmatic and imaginative local rapper. Before taking the mound, Serengeti reflected on living a loner’s lifestyle in Chicago, working with Why?‘s Yoni Wolf, and the ’87 Cubs
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Chicago Theatre Off Book Chicago Theatre Off Book: Aug. 31, 2012 Ed.
Today, Chicago Theatre Off Book is reviewing exciting offerings from local theatre companies: “Ren Faire: Fistful of Ducats” by The Factory Theatre,“Savageland” by Nothing Special Productions, “The Fall of the House of Usher” by The Hypocrites and “Idomeneus” by Sideshow Theatre. And our Special Guests are Tosha Fowler and Victoria DeIorio, co-founders at Cor Theatre plus actor and director for “Skin Tight,” and Erica Daniels, Associate Artistic Director and Casting Director at Steppenwolf Theatre. And of course, we have 2 new Got A Minute? segments from local playwrights.
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News Chicago Writers Conference: Helping Writers to Get Published
The Chicago Writers Conference took place in mid-September downtown at the Tribune Building. The conference was a weekend of seminars and talks for all types of writers about the business of writing.
CHIRP’s Jessi DiBartolomeo and Dan Epstein talked with executive director Mare Swallow. Her mission is to help writers get their writing published.
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Split Reel Race and Visual Imagery (w/guest Maurice Berger)
It’s long been said that perception becomes reality, and for much of our nation’s history, mass media has not been kind to minorities — in particular, the African-American community. From Birth of a Nation (where the Ku Klux Klan were portrayed as crusading heroes) to the bumbling, shiftless TV characters of Mantan Moreland and Stepin Fetchit, early film and television did much to portray black America as an underclass deserving of pity and ridicule.
But images were also used as weapons to advance the cause of civil rights, as evidenced by the power of photos of the horrifically-beaten Emmit Till to news coverage of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, D.C.
Today we’ll be talking about landmark TV shows and films that have inspired discussions on race — from All in the Family to The Cosby Show to Spike Lee’s Bamboozled — as well as look at how race has been used in the political arena.
My guest is Maurice Berger, senior research scholar at the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and senior fellow at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics of The New School. He’s also the author and curator of the new book and exhibit titled For All the World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights.You can access the online portion of the exhibit here, while the actual project is currently stationed at the International Center of Photography in New York City.
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