A Theater of Our Own: A History and a Memoir of 1,001 Nights in Chicago Review

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A Theater of Our Own: A History and a Memoir of 1,001 Nights in Chicago ReviewAs just about anybody in the Chicago theatre movement will cheerfully tell you, a substantial percentage of the reason Chicago has built a reputation as America's great homegrown theatre city is that former CHICAGO TRIBUNE critic Richard Christiansen had the energy to go to an awful lot of storefronts, basements, churches, galleries and other miscellaneous spaces to find the likes of David Mamet, Robert Falls, Mary Zimmerman, Frank Galati, Laurie Metcalfe, Joan Allen, Amy Morton, John Malkovich and so many of the others who have gone on to make their marks in the theatre. Christiansen puts all this into a coherent narrative and, incidentally and implicitly, suggests what the conditions for such a flowering must be in other cities.
The one thing he (typically modestly) doesn't put as being a necessary ingredient is himself. Critics with his idealism, enthusiasm and decency are hard to come by. Without compromising his pursuit of excellence, he still was able to encourage even when he wrote unfavorable reviews. He also resisted the critics' disease -- to make a quip that draws attention to the critic at the expense of the subject. One of these days, maybe someone will write a companion volume that gives Mr. C. his due, but for the moment this book is splendid and necessary. Anybody trying to make theatre should read it and learn the lessons it contains.
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