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Looking for Love, St. Patrick’s Day, 2012

A few went looking for love– and perhaps a couple of them found it.  It was a phantasmagorically strange evening outside.  The city was upside down.  The people in the city were hardly normal.  And if I used this much understatement for the rest of this post– I’ll have run out of my quota for the […]

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two minute portrait: Michael Patrick Thornton

today’s two minute portrait is of Michael Patrick Thornton.  Michael is the co-founder and artistic director of The Gift Theatre, Chicago.  Michael also teaches at Columbia College, Second City, The School at Steppenwolf— and plays Dr. Gabriel Fife on ABC’s “Private Practice.”  (and Michael just got cast as FDR in Lifetime’s “F.D.R.: Democracy Rolls On”. […]

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“Absolute Hell” opens at The Gift Theatre, Chicago

Monday night was crack’n-busy (though Tuesday night was crack’n-busier– and ended in a total of 5 shoots in 2 days).  after shooting some process shots for The Neo-Futurists– I flew home to pick up Susan (cause I knew I was going to need help setting up for this next one) and we winged over to The Gift […]

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puppets! for The Neo-Futurists new production of Pinocchio/Frankenstein

it’s been a while since I had a hand up a puppet (see photo to the right– a snap from my show The Hyperbolist at HERE Arts Center, NYC in 2010…so long ago it seems!), my fingers in the clay, butt at the sewing machine, or fist holding a paint brush– but a few weeks […]