Apr 22, 2009 | Press, Reviews, Short Plays
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...
Apr 21, 2009 | Press, Reviews, Short Plays
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...
Apr 20, 2009 | Press, Reviews, Short Plays
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...
Dec 10, 2008 | Press, Reviews, Short Plays
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...
Dec 4, 2008 | Press, Reviews, Short Plays
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...