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Imagination, magic, love in 'Jewish Stories'
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'A FESTIVAL OF JEWISH STORIES'
Recommended
When: Through Dec. 18
Where: Piven Theatre, 927 Noyes, Evanston
Tickets: $15-$25
Call: (847) 866-8049
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Evanston's Piven Theatre is one of the more devoted practitioners
of the traditional Chicago dramatic form known as story theater. The
technique requires that the actors who appear in a work of literature
adapted for the stage not only transform themselves into the
characters at hand...
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FRONT ROW
Chicago Jewish Star
; THE PIVEN THEATRE HAS A WINNER WITH its season opener, "A Festival of Jewish Stories", a delight from start to finish. With minimal but creative stage settings that work perfectly in the intimate theater space, the production engages the audience in a partnership of imaginations. It's that
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`Never In My Lifetime'
Chicago Sun-Times
; `Never In My Lifetime' Through Oct. 31 Piven Theatre, 927 Noyes, Evanston Tickets, $20. (847) 866-8049 Highly recommended In one of the most achingly lovely moments in "Never In My Lifetime" - Shirley Gee's harrowing and unflinchingly poetic play about the seemingly endless civil war in Northern
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Tuning In to a Literary Tradition: 'Jewish Stories From the Old World
Forward
; Forward 12-04-1998 Tuning In to a Literary Tradition: `Jewish Stories From the Old World to the New' Comes to Public Radio and Brings Mordechai Strigler's Fiction to a Broader Audience Five years ago, when Ruth Seymour, the general manager of KCRW, was looking for a story to include on the Southern
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ALL THINGS 'GREAT' AND SMALL 'HUMANIZED VILLAIN' MISS HAVISHAM BRINGS THEATER MATRIARCH PIVEN BACK TO THE STAGE
Chicago Sun-Times
; 'GREAT EXPECTATIONS' *Saturday through June 26 *Piven Theatre, 927 Noyes *Tickets, $15-25 *(847) 866-8049 These days she may be best known as Jeremy Piven's mother. But Joyce Piven is the matriarch of a much larger theatrical family, having nurtured such actors as John, Joan and Ann Cusack, Aidan
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`American Voices'
Chicago Sun-Times
; `American Voices' Through May 13 Piven Theatre, 927 Noyes, Evanston Tickets: $21; (847) 866-8049 Highly recommended There is great art in the short story form-from its distilled narrative and quick brushstrokes of character, to its tight, telescoped focus on a crucial moment in time. And whether
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