Chicago Journal : Sketchbook 9 Review

Chicago Journal : Sketchbook 9 Review

Plays out of the Sketchbook Ninth annual festival of short works takes ‘New American Fable’ as theme Short theatre is a forgiving medium, and at Collaboraction’s 9th annual Sketchbook Festival, an expansive celebration of the form, only the hits leave a lasting...
Sketchbook 9 : Chicago Tribune Review

Sketchbook 9 : Chicago Tribune Review

Theater review: Sketchbook Festival By Nina Metz A single father comes home from work exhausted and rallies his son for a dinner of pizza and milk. But the boy’s thoughts are elsewhere, in a land of cowboys and myth and schoolyard bullies. Like photo stills or...
Sketchbook 9 : Chicago Sun-Times Review

Sketchbook 9 : Chicago Sun-Times Review

Chicago Sun-Times: Tweets in Collaboraction’s Sketchbook Fun to Follow by Hedy Weiss, Theatre Critic Collaboraction, the multidisciplinary creative collaborative, produced its first Sketchbook project nine years ago — long before the advent of Twitter. But in a...
Cut to the Quick: TimeOut Chicago Review

Cut to the Quick: TimeOut Chicago Review

Cut to the Quick John Beer The days are getting shorter, the nights are getting colder, and a festival of brief, wickedly dark plays seems exactly what November and December require. Kudos, then, to the Side Project for setting out this smorgasbord of dysfunctional...
Cut to the Quick : Bite and Smile Review

Cut to the Quick : Bite and Smile Review

CUTTING TO THE QUICK by Joe Janes Cut To The Quick: Splayed Verbiage Written and Directed by Various Artists Presented by The Side Project Through Dec 21st 2008 19 Plays. 3 Programs. 1 Theme. Cut To The Quick is a festival of short works presented by the Rogers Park...