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PHOTOGRAPHS: TOP LEFT: QUINN B. WHARTON; BOTTOM: CHARLES OSGOOD PHOTOGRAPHY
Theater & Dance
Hubbard Street dancer Jacqueline Burnett performs in Quintett.
Lithe Forsythe
Akhtar’s studio The playwright’s first stage work returns to the city where it premiered.
Disgraced
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Hubbard Street Fall Series
Hubbard Street devotes its fall program to works by William Forsythe, widely acknowledged as one of the most important choreographers working today. American-born Forsythe spent 20 years at the helm of Germany’s Ballet Frankfurt before founding his own Forsythe Company in Frankfurt and Dresden, from which
Bad Jews
Bad Jews has been good news for Theater Wit. Joshua Harmon’s caustic comedy about cousins squabbling over a family heirloom after their grandfather’s funeral ropes in heated arguments about what it means to be Jewish. It opened in May at Theater Wit’s Lakeview home base, where it had multiple extensions. Over the summer, it transferred to Skokie’s North Shore Center for the Performing Arts for another successful, and extended, run. Now it’s back in the city for a
commercial run at Lincoln Park’s Royal George Theatre. An initial six- week block of tickets is available, but with Laura Lapidus, Ian Paul Custer and Cory Kahane continuing their deliciously uncomfortable performances and the terrific Kelly O’Sullivan stepping in as cousin Liam’s gentile girlfriend, don’t be surprised if Bad Jews turns into an open run.—KV
Bad Jews is at Theater Wit at the Royal George Theatre through Oct 4.
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Dissing cousins Lapidus, Custer and Kahane, from left, share an in-joke.
he’s stepping down this fall after a decade. He’s known for a dance language that incorporates sharp angles and off-kilter balance. In the October program, Hubbard Street will perform three of Forsythe’s best known pieces: Quintett, which the company was the first to perform in the U.S. in 2012,
along with One Flat Thing, reproduced, which features 14 dancers moving on, under and around 20 tables, and the first American production of the quartet N.N.N.N.—Kris Vire
The Hubbard Street Fall Series is at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance Oct 15–18.
It’s unusual for the Goodman to program a play that premiered at another Chicago theater just a couple of seasons earlier. But Disgraced has had quite a life since its debut at American Theater Company in 2012. The first play by novelist Ayad Akhtar, it centers on a successful Pakistani-American lawyer who was raised as a Muslim but has rejected the faith. When a dinner party turns ugly, he finds some cultural affinities are easier to escape than others.
Kimberly Senior directed the production at ATC and its New York premiere later the same year, after which the play was awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for drama. Senior made her Broadway directing debut with the play in 2014. Now she’ll take another go at it in Chicago, with a cast including Bernard White, Nisi Sturgis, Zakiya Young, Tony Crane and, returning from the play’s first production, Behzad Dabu.—KV
Disgraced is at the Goodman Theatre Sept 12–Oct 18.
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