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Theatre Building Chicago
The Theatre Building Chicago is the former name of a theater building located in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood. The Theatre Building Chicago once referred to both the three theatres that are in the space, as well as the producing organization that is based on the premises. The building was sold to Stage 773 in 2010. The producing organization was later rebranded as Chicago Muse and folded in 2012. History In its lifetime, Theatre Building Chicago hosted over 800 plays; 9,000 events; 500 theatre companies; 1,078,000 audience members; 29,400 actors, designers, directors and other theatre artists appearing in over 25,000 performances. Many theatre companies the Theatre Building Chicago as a space for one long-running play, but In 1988 TBC initiated “United Stages at Theatre Building” in response to several companies’ requesting a seasonal home base rather than a spot for a single show. Six companies comprised United Stages: Absolute Theatre Company, American Blues Theate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago
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John Malkovich
John Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an American actor. He is the recipient of several accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 films, including ''The Killing Fields'' (1984), ''Empire of the Sun'' (1987), ''Dangerous Liaisons'' (1988), ''Of Mice and Men'' (1992), ''In the Line of Fire'' (1993), ''Mulholland Falls'' (1996), ''Con Air'' (1997), ''Rounders'' (1998), ''Being John Malkovich'' (1999), '' The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc'' (1999), ''Shadow of the Vampire'' (2000), ''Ripley's Game'' (2002), ''Johnny English'' (2003), ''Burn After Reading'' (2008), ''Red'' (2010), '' Transformers: Dark of the Moon'' (2011), ''Warm Bodies'' (2013), '' Cesar Chavez'' (2014), '' Bird Box'' (2018), and ''Velvet Buzzsaw'' (2019). He has also produced films such as '' Ghost World'' (2001), ''Juno' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild Goat
The wild goat (''Capra aegagrus'') is a wild goat species, inhabiting forests, shrublands and rocky areas ranging from Turkey and the Caucasus in the west to Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan in the east. It has been listed as near threatened on the IUCN Red List and is threatened by destruction and degradation of habitat. It is one of the ancestors of the domestic goat (''C. hircus''). Taxonomy ''Capra aegagrus'' was the scientific name proposed by Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben in 1777 for the wild goat populations of the Caucasus and Taurus Mountains. ''Capra blythi'' proposed by Allan Octavian Hume in 1874 were wild goat horns from Sindh. The following wild goat subspecies are considered valid taxa: *Bezoar ibex ''C. a. aegagrus'' *Sindh ibex ''C. a. blythi'' *Chiltan ibex ''C. a. chialtanensis'' *Turkmen wild goat ''C. a. turcmenica'' *''Capra aegagrus pictus'' The kri-kri was once thought to be a subspecies of the wild goat, but is now considered to be a feral d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Hollmann
Mark Hollmann is an American composer and lyricist. Hollmann grew up in Fairview Heights, Illinois, where he graduated from Belleville Township High School East in 1981. He won a 2002 Tony Award and a 2001 Obie Award for his music and lyrics to ''Urinetown''. He is a former ensemble member of the Cardiff-Giant Theatre Company in Chicago. He played trombone for the Chicago art rock band Maestro Subgum and the Whole, and piano for The Second City national touring company and Chicago City Limits, an improv company in New York City. He attended the musical theatre writing workshop Making Tuners at Theatre Building Chicago and the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop in New York. While at the Making Turners workshop he began a show with Chicago-based writer Jack Helbig that became "The Girl, the Grouch, and the Goat," which has had professional productions in Los Angeles and Chicago. Hollmann is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America and ASCAP. He lives in Manhattan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Petrarca
David Petrarca (born November 10, 1965) is an American director and producer of theatre, television and film. He was director at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago from 1988 until 2005. His work as a director includes HBO's ''Boardwalk Empire'', ''Game of Thrones'', ''Big Love'', ''Hung'', and ''True Blood'' as well as ''Marco Polo'', ''Jessica Jones'' and numerous other projects for Netflix. Other recent projects include ''The Alienist'' and ''Warrior''. He worked as an executive producer on ''Those Who Kill'', ABC series ''Eli Stone'' and ''Drop Dead Diva''. He was the recipient of a TCG/NEA Director Fellowship and has served as associate artistic director for the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and the Chelsea Theatre Centre in New York City, and on the NEA Theatre Panel. He has taught at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, the O'Neill Center and Northwestern University and has developed new work for New York Stage and Film and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Schwimmer
David Lawrence Schwimmer (born November 2, 1966) is an American actor, director and producer. He gained worldwide recognition for portraying Ross Geller in the sitcom '' Friends'', for which he received a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 1995. While still acting in ''Friends'', his first leading film role was in ''The Pallbearer'' (1996), followed by roles in ''Kissing a Fool'', ''Six Days, Seven Nights'', ''Apt Pupil'' (all 1998), and '' Picking Up the Pieces'' (2000). He was then cast in the miniseries '' Band of Brothers'' (2001) as Herbert Sobel. Schwimmer began his acting career performing in school plays at Beverly Hills High School. In 1988, he graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Arts in theater and speech. After graduation, Schwimmer co-founded the Lookingglass Theatre Company. For much of the late 1980s, he lived in Los Angeles as a struggling, unemployed actor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lookingglass Theatre Company
Lookingglass Theatre Company is a non-profit theater company in Chicago, Illinois. History Lookingglass was founded in 1988 by David Schwimmer, David Catlin, Eva Barr, Thom Cox, Lawrence DiStasi, Joy Gregory, David Kersnar, and Andy White. The company's first production, ''Through the Lookingglass'', was directed by David Kersnar and was produced at the Great Room in Jones Residential College on the Northwestern University campus. The company has since produced more than 60 world-premiere plays, including Mary Zimmerman's ''Metamorphoses,'' as well as her adaptations of ''The Arabian Nights'' and ''The Odyssey''. The company also premiered and toured creator David Catlin's circus-driven re-imaginings of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland in ''Lookingglass Alice'' and Herman Melville's ''Moby Dick.'' Other productions have included David Schwimmer's adaptations of Upton Sinclair's ''The Jungle'' and Studs Terkel's ''Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Next Theatre Company
Next may refer to: Arts and entertainment Film * ''Next'' (1990 film), an animated short about William Shakespeare * ''Next'' (2007 film), a sci-fi film starring Nicolas Cage * '' Next: A Primer on Urban Painting'', a 2005 documentary film Literature * ''Next'' (Crichton novel), a novel by Michael Crichton * ''Next'' (Hynes novel), a 2010 novel by James Hynes * ''Next'' (play), a play by Terrence McNally * '' Next: The Future Just Happened'', a 2001 non-fiction book by Michael Lewis Music Performers * Next (American band), an R&B trio * NEXT (Korean band), a South Korean rock band * Next (Chinese group), a boy group Albums * ''Next'' (ATB album), 2017 * ''Next'' (Journey album) or the title song, 1977 * ''Next'' (The Necks album) or the title instrumental, 1990 * ''Next'' (The Sensational Alex Harvey Band album) or the title song (see below), 1973 * ''Next'' (Sevendust album), 2005 * ''Next'' (Soulive album), 2002 * ''Next'' (Vanessa Williams album), 1997 * ''Next!' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Piven
Jeremy Samuel Piven (born July 26, 1965) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Ari Gold in the comedy series ''Entourage'', for which he won a Golden Globe Award and three consecutive Emmy Awards. He also starred in the British period drama '' Mr Selfridge'', which tells the story of the man who created the English department store Selfridges, and portrayed Spence Kovak on Ellen DeGeneres's sitcom ''Ellen''. Early years Piven was born in Manhattan and raised in a Reconstructionist Jewish family of Ukrainian Jewish descent. His parents are Byrne Piven (1929–2002) and Joyce Hiller Piven (née Goldstein), both of whom were actors and drama teachers. His elder sister is director Shira Piven, whom he has described as one of his first acting teachers; his brother-in-law is director Adam McKay. He grew up in Evanston, Illinois, and graduated from Evanston Township High School. As a teenager, he attended Harand Theater Camp in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, wher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Petersen
William Louis Petersen (born February 21, 1953) is an American actor and producer. He is best known for his role as Gil Grissom in the CBS drama series ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'' (2000–2015), for which he won a Screen Actors Guild Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award; he was further nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards as a producer of the show. He reprised his role as Gil Grissom in the sequel '' CSI: Vegas'', which premiered on October 6, 2021. He also starred in the films '' To Live and Die in L.A.'' (1985), '' Manhunter'' (1986), ''Young Guns II'' (1990), ''Fear'' (1996), '' The Contender'' (2000), '' Detachment'' (2011), and ''Seeking a Friend for the End of the World'' (2012). Early life Petersen was born in Evanston, Illinois, the youngest of six children of June (née Hoene; 1909–2006) and Arthur Edward Petersen (1907 – 2004), who worked in the furniture business. Of Danish and German descent, he was raised in the Roman Catholic faith of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Cole
Gary Michael Cole (born September 20, 1956) is an American television, film and voice actor. Cole began his professional acting career on stage at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 1985. On television, he has had starring roles in the TV series '' Midnight Caller'', '' American Gothic'', ''The West Wing'', ''Crusade'', ''The Good Wife'', ''The Good Fight'', ''Veep'', '' Chicago Fire'', and ''Mixed-ish''. In film, he has appeared in ''The Brady Bunch Movie'', ''One Hour Photo'', ''Office Space'', '' Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story'', ''Breach'', '' Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby'', ''Pineapple Express'', and ''In the Line of Fire''. He is also known for voicing the title character on the Adult Swim series ''Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law'', Principal Shepherd on ''Family Guy'', Mayor Fred Jones Sr. on ''Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated'', and James Timothy Possible on ''Kim Possible''. As of season 19, Cole joined '' NCIS'', taking over from Mark Harmon, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Shepard
Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017) was an American actor, playwright, author, screenwriter, and director whose career spanned half a century. He won 10 Obie Awards for writing and directing, the most by any writer or director. He wrote 58 plays as well as several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs. Shepard received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play ''Buried Child'' and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of pilot Chuck Yeager in the 1983 film ''The Right Stuff (film), The Right Stuff''. He received the PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award as a master American dramatist in 2009. ''New York (magazine), New York'' magazine described Shepard as "the greatest American playwright of his generation." Shepard's plays are known for their bleak, poetic, surrealist elements, black comedy, and rootless characters living on the outskirts of American society. His style evolved from the absurdism of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
