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Funny. Wir waren im Restaurant gegenüber und haben uns gefragt was die Autos und die lichter bedeuten. schließlich waren wir fertig mit dem essen und sind zur bushaltestelle gegangen. inzwischen standen 2 oder 3 busse dort. Allerdings haben wir keine schauspieler gesehen. falls die story stimmt.:)
Actors to rescue: The ‘CSI’ guy
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April 17, 2010
BY MICHAEL SNEED Sun-Times Columnist
A tale of two great actors, the human factor, and a humdinger twist.
Case in point: An incident at Trattoria Gianni in Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre district Wednesday night involving actors William “CSI” Petersen and John …
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Endgame
By: Samuel Beckett
Directed by: Frank Galati
Steppenwolf’s engaging production of Endgame finds comedy in despair.
The work of Samuel Beckett is something that has always intrigued and frustrated me at the same time, and the play Endgame is no exception. My first experience with this play was a poorly done recording which made the play seem empty, boring, and soulless. The second time I saw it was in Bulgaria (in Bulgarian), and although it was a fine performance I could not understand any of the dialogue. This third trip into …
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April 12, 2010
BY HEDY WEISS Theater Critic
Playwright Samuel Beckett specialized in gazing into the void. A great literary undertaker in the blackly comic tradition of a long line of Irish writers, he set himself apart from the rest by ruthlessly stripping away all the decorative niceties of existence and suggesting that in the final analysis (and it always is “final”), life might well be completely meaningless.
In fact, if you take Beckett at face value, he didn’t see much difference between life and death. The former was just one painful step in …
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Today’s Chicago Woman
Source: http://www.tcwmag.com/man-of-the-month-william-petersen/1
The former CSI star, a Steppenwolf Ensemble Member since 2008 who has appeared in the theater’s productions since 1980, takes the stage this month in Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, playing blind wheelchair-bound Hamm.
The guys at Steppenwolf, they’re all friends of mine for 30 years. We grew up together. In Endgame, I’m on stage with Martha (Lavey) and Fran (Guinan). We’ve talked about different things to do and we’ve never, for any number of reasons, had a chance to actually do the same thing at the same time. So …
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Hier ein paar Bilder:
Casting has been announced for the Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s upcoming production of the Samuel Beckett classicEndgame.
Directed by Frank Galati, performances at the famed Chicago venue are scheduled for April 1-June 6 in the Downstairs Theatre. The cast will feature Ian Bradford, Francis Guinan, Martha Lavey and William Petersen.
Endgame, according to press notes, “follows Hamm, a blind man unable to stand, and his servant Clov, who is unable to sit, as they pass their days in a tiny house by the sea—if the sea still exists. Pestered by …
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The Actor Retires
Edition: Unabridged
http://ebooks.kcls.org/9E6830AA-84D0-43D0-B25C-EDE39752DB42/10/261/en/ContentDetails.htm?ID=402A3F38-017A-4E80-B723-F9891C995FF8
Steppenwolf Theatre Company playwright and actor Bruce Norris presents a hilarious comedy in which an actor decides to end his career, burn his headshots and resumés, and become a serious furniture maker. Featuring a full-cast performance with Bruce Norris, D.W. Moffett, Lucy Childs, Christopher Donahue, Kevin Hurley, Amy Morton, Susan Nussbaum and William Peterson.
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Bruce Norris
D.W. Moffett
Bruce Norris
Lucy Childs
Christopher Donahue
Kevin Hurley
Amy Morton
Susan Nussbaum
William Peterson
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Publisher:
L.A. Theatre Works
Published:
1/1/1994
Subject(s):
Drama
Fiction
“The Actor Retires” is an hilarious, almost surreal journey into the life of an actor who decides to end his career and become …
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Hier ein paar Bilder aus der Steppenwolf Production von “Dublin Carol”.
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Becketts Endspiel ist ein Drama in einem Akt. In einem Raum, der jeglicher Ausstattung beraubt ist – lediglich zwei kleine Fensterchen eröffnen weit oben im Hintergrund den Blick in die Außenwelt – befinden sich Hamm, der blinde Alte, der auf einem mit Röllchen versehenen Sessel sitzt, weil er nicht stehen kann, und sein Diener, Clov, der nicht sitzen kann. Die Eltern Hamms, Nagg und Nell, sind beinlos und leben in zwei Mülltonnen. Die Welt außerhalb des Raumes ist tot. Es scheint, dass diese vier Personen die einzigen Überlebenden einer großen …
