source: Chicago Tribune
published: November 2, 1989
author: Richard Christiansen
The new Genesis Theatre’s production of Christopher Fry’s “A Phoenix Too Frequent,” which takes place in a tomb, takes place in a basement, which has been made up to look like a tomb.
source: Chicago Sun-Times
section: Weekend Chicago
published: June 21, 1989
author: Richard Christiansen (Entertainment editor)
credit: web.archive – James Marsters.com
“Incorruptible,” Christopher Cartmill’s fabulously ambitious, panoramic drama about the French Revolution, is exploding across the stage of Bailiwick Repertory.
The two-part, six-hour production features a cast of 16 actor-singers playing nearly 100 roles: frenzied revolutionaries, bloodthirsty peasants, corrupt priests, blustering magistrates, pontificating philosophers, a prophet, a madwoman and a pious pornographer, among others.
source: Chicago Tribune
published: July 7, 1989
author: Lawrence Bommer
In this city, new theaters spring up like kudzu in Georgia. Founded by James Marsters and Liane Davidson, the latest entry in the dramatic sweepstakes is the aptly named Genesis Theatre Company, which just launched its first effort,…
source: Chicago Sun-Times
published: March 21, 1989
author: Hedy Weiss
The victims of war extend far beyond the casualties of the battlefield. And it is upon that simple but important premise that contemporary British playwright Ronald Holman has built a trio of one-act plays, collectively titled “Making Noise Quietly.”
