Posts tagged “steppenwolf theatre”
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Photos from Nelson Algren Live
April 16, 2009
Tags: barry gifford, chicago, Dan Simon, don delillo, entrapment, man with the golden arm, martha lavey, nelson algren, nelson algren live, readings, steppenwolf theatre, willem dafoe
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Nelson Algren Live reviewed in the Chicago Tribune
April 8, 2009
The ubertext of “Nelson Algren Live,” a literary evening that had the great Don DeLillo happy merely to read little bits of narration, and featured the truly delicious casting of Martha Lavey as Simone de Beauvoir? Algren spent a life writing about others and kept this hitherto-unpublished story hidden, because Blackie Cavanaugh, a gaping, emotional, closed, taciturn wound, was far too much like himself.
Tags: barry gifford, chicago, chicago tribune, Dan Simon, don delillo, entrapment, martha lavey, nelson algren, nelson algren live, reviews, steppenwolf theatre, willem dafoe
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Nelson Algren Live: 100th Birthday Celebration at the Steppenwolf Theatre
April 6, 2009
April 6 at 7:00 PM, Steppenwolf Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted St., Chicago, IL 60614. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased from the Steppenwolf Theatre web site, or by calling the box office at 312-335-1650.
Nelson Algren Live will feature readings from…
Tags: art shay, Authors, barry gifford, Dan Simon, entrapment, nelson algren, readings, russell banks, steppenwolf theatre
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Jeff McMahon essay on Nelson Algren
March 31, 2009
“Hundreds are expected to fill the Steppenwolf Theater for a reading of [Algren's] works April 6. Whenever these events occur, the panelists marvel at Algren’s early brilliance and wonder at his devastating decline—for he began as the poet of the slums and became merely a resident therein.”
Tags: algren centennial, chicago, nelson algren, newcity.com, readings, simone de beauvoir, steppenwolf theatre
