Chicago – The great and lofty Steppenwolf Theatre of Chicago has brought the current political season right on target with “Potus: Or Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive,” now extended through December 10th. Click Potus.
Play Rating: 5.0/5.0
It’s just another day at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When a White House PR nightmare spins into a legit sh*tshow, seven brilliant and beleaguered women must risk life, liberty, and the pursuit of sanity to keep the commander-in-chief out of trouble. The story of Potus expresses the crisis through the lens of sex, politics and the women in charge of the man in charge of the free world. Who knew that global crisis is always just a four-letter word away?
Extended Through December 10: At the Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago
Photo credit: Steppenwolf.org
Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio review of “Potus” …
”Potus” is at the Steppenwolf Theatre,...
Play Rating: 5.0/5.0
It’s just another day at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When a White House PR nightmare spins into a legit sh*tshow, seven brilliant and beleaguered women must risk life, liberty, and the pursuit of sanity to keep the commander-in-chief out of trouble. The story of Potus expresses the crisis through the lens of sex, politics and the women in charge of the man in charge of the free world. Who knew that global crisis is always just a four-letter word away?
Extended Through December 10: At the Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago
Photo credit: Steppenwolf.org
Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio review of “Potus” …
”Potus” is at the Steppenwolf Theatre,...
- 11/13/2023
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Exclusive: Tanya Saracho’s 2014 play off-Broadway play, Mala Hierba is coming to the big screen, and the Vida creator will be helming the feature.
In her movie directorial debut, Saracho has teamed up with Anonymous Content to adapt the Texas border town set drama. Mala Hierba the movie will be produced by the Robert Walak and Alisa Tager-run AC Studios, with Dawn Olmstead, David Levine, and Whitney Dibo overseeing the project for the Mr. Robot and True Detective outfit. Former Vida EP Stephanie Langhoff, and Christine Davila, head of development and production at Saracho’s Ojala Productions, will serve as producers on Mala Hierba.
Originally opening at Second Stage Uptown nearly six years ago, the play unravels the coiffured life of a Lone Star state trophy wife who begins to see the cracks in her life of wealth and privilege as her first and perhaps true love reappears. The...
In her movie directorial debut, Saracho has teamed up with Anonymous Content to adapt the Texas border town set drama. Mala Hierba the movie will be produced by the Robert Walak and Alisa Tager-run AC Studios, with Dawn Olmstead, David Levine, and Whitney Dibo overseeing the project for the Mr. Robot and True Detective outfit. Former Vida EP Stephanie Langhoff, and Christine Davila, head of development and production at Saracho’s Ojala Productions, will serve as producers on Mala Hierba.
Originally opening at Second Stage Uptown nearly six years ago, the play unravels the coiffured life of a Lone Star state trophy wife who begins to see the cracks in her life of wealth and privilege as her first and perhaps true love reappears. The...
- 7/7/2021
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Performances of Steppenwolf Theatre Company's highly anticipated production of The Motherfker with the Hat by Stephen Adly Guirgis began last month. Ensemble member Anna D. Shapiro directs following the Tony Award-nominated Broadway premiere, with an all-star ensemble cast featuring Sandra Delgado, Sandra Marquez, Gary Perez, John Ortiz and Jimmy Smits and members of the original design team scenic designer Todd Rosenthal, lighting designer Donald Holder and composer Terence Blanchard. Get a first look at the actors onstage in the photos below...
- 1/5/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Performances of Steppenwolf Theatre Company's highly anticipated production of The Motherfker with the Hat by Stephen Adly Guirgis start today Ensemble member Anna D. Shapiro directs following the Tony Award-nominated Broadway premiere, with an all-star ensemble cast featuring Sandra Delgado, Sandra Marquez, Gary Perez, John Ortiz and Jimmy Smits and members of the original design team scenic designer Todd Rosenthal, lighting designer Donald Holder and composer Terence Blanchard.
- 12/28/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Sandra Delgado, John Ortiz and More Star in Steppenwolf's The Motherf**Ker With The Hat, Beg. Dec 28
Performances of Steppenwolf Theatre Company's highly anticipated production of The Motherfker with the Hat by Stephen Adly Guirgis start in just two weeks. Ensemble member Anna D. Shapiro directs following the Tony Award-nominated Broadway premiere, with an all-star ensemble cast featuring Sandra Delgado, Sandra Marquez, Gary Perez, John Ortiz and Jimmy Smits and members of the original design team scenic designer Todd Rosenthal, lighting designer Donald Holder and composer Terence Blanchard.
- 12/13/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Goodman Theatre proudly concludes its 2008/2009 season with José Rivera's newest play, Boleros for the Disenchanted, "an epic study of wedded life that is simply?and not so simply?marvelous" (Variety). A true love story inspired by Rivera's parents' courtship and eventual migration from Puerto Rico to Alabama, Boleros for the Disenchanted makes its Chicago premiere directed by Henry Godinez?the Goodman's Resident Artistic Associate who was named 2008 Latino of the Year by the Chicago Latino Network. Chicago actors Elizabeth Ledo and Sandra Marquez command the stage in the role of Flora, based on Rivera's mother, at various points in her life. Godinez's cast also includes Liza Fernandez, Joe Minoso, Rene Rivera and Felix Solis. Boleros for the Disenchanted is performed in English in the Albert Theatre June 20 ? July 26, 2009. Tickets are $25 ? $70. A complete performance schedule including dates, times and ticket prices appears at the end of this release. Meet the playwright...
- 5/30/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Our Lady of the Underpass by Teatro Vista Resident Playwright Tanya Saracho will be produced at the Greenhouse Theatre Center, Teatro Vista Ensemble Member Sandra Marquez will direct. The play will run from February 19th through March 29th in the Downstairs Mainstage at the Greenhouse Theatre Center, 2257 N Lincoln, Chicago, Il 60614. Opening night (press) is Monday, February 23. The play features Charin Alvarez (Teatro Vista Ensemble), Chris Catelmi, Ilana Faust (Teatro Luna Artistic Associate), Suzette Mayobre (Teatro Luna Ensemble Member), Rosie Newton, and Juan Gabriel Ruiz (Teatro Vista Junior Ensemble).
- 2/14/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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