Manual Cinema’s ‘Trudy’ Mesmerizing “Christmas Carol!”
As things get rolling in Manual Cinema’s stunning live stream holiday masterpiece “A Christmas Carol,” Aunt Trudy (N. LaQuis Harkins) is launching a holiday pandemic version of a virtual family gathering and a traditional storytelling hour with one missing member: her husband Uncle Joe, the chief storyteller and keeper of Joe’s Christmas story box. So, it is up to Aunt Trudy to pull out the stick puppets, position the slide projector and stage herself before dimming the lights to tell the tale.
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“STICK FLY” LIFE UNDER A MICROSCOPE.
Lydia R. Diamond’s “Stick Fly”—the poignant family comedy/drama about a weekend with an affluent African-American family on Martha’s Vineyard—has a rich Chicago-based origin story dating back to its Congo Square Theatre debut in 2006. When it broke through to Broadway in 2011, Diamond’s celebrated work joined two others written by black female playwrights that season. Back in Chicago, Windy City Playhouse mounted a Chuck Smith-directed revival of the show in 2015, which brought Diamond’s work to the attention of Writers artistic director Michael Halberstam, and has now led to the Ron OJ Parson-directed revival that opened Wednesday in the Alexandra C. and John D. Nichols Theatre.
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