Ben Kemper
Griffin’s Tale: Bubble Bobble’s Game Show of Doom
Or: I am Joyful Griffin’s Tale has done it again. Venturing out to Chicago’s Elementary schools to inspire memories, discussions, and...
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Ben Kemper
May 16, 20232 min read
Thou Proud Dream
Or: About Face Returning home from the bloody streets of Kirkuk, Iraq, Leroy (Brett Matthews) is having a hard time adjusting to civilian...
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Ben Kemper
May 16, 20232 min read
Fin, a new play by Hillary Flynn
Or: Beneath the waters When wire tight, new yorky real estate agent Allegra wants what’s best for her daughter, June, the perfect SAT...
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Ben Kemper
May 16, 20234 min read
Carrie the Musical
Or: Bleed Out What is this? A grey and jagged cavern full of cracks and crevices, each stuffed with horrid instruments and burning with...
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Ben Kemper
May 16, 20233 min read
Haymaker
Or: Nazis, Ninjas, and the no-holds beatings of the Heart We all have them. The little fantasies we cherish about the way our lives are...
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Ben Kemper
May 16, 20232 min read
The Daggy Kids
Or: “This is our youth(s)” Pippa (Alison Mahoney) and her partner Sandy (Zoe Maltby) are typical twertysomethings: vibrant, intelligent,...
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Ben Kemper
May 16, 20234 min read
Peter Pan
Or: “The Croc is Ticking” I will confess that for the longest time I did not like the notion of Peter Pan at all. I recall, prim and...
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Ben Kemper
May 16, 20233 min read
Amadeus
Or: “Hands Off That Holiness” The Chapel of the Unnamed Faithful. A lovely name; a sad name. Some might say a name divinely christened to...
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Ben Kemper
May 16, 20233 min read
The Fantastics
Or: A Time to Pretend The story is an old one: a boy, a girl, their fathers, and a wall between their houses. Matt (Matt Dial) and Louisa...
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Ben Kemper
May 16, 20234 min read
The Graces: A new play by Hannah Verdon
Or: The One Who Tripped the Fall Pardon me, dear reader. It seems so counter productive to try and pin down The Graces, to label and...
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Ben Kemper
May 16, 20233 min read
TUSK a new work by Bea Cordelia Sullivan-Knoff
Or: “There’s nothing lost that may be found, if sought” There are times, thinking about the nature of love, when I despair, I really do....
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Ben Kemper
May 16, 20233 min read
Sweeny Todd at Lovers and Madmen
Or: Blades in Arms Amidst mist and smoke, and an barrage of lighting tricks fresh from a Sting concert, we stumble into the midst of a...
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Ben Kemper
May 16, 20233 min read
The White Snake at the Goodman
Or: “Believing is Seeing” Where do I begin? The famous proverb says that the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and...
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Ben Kemper
May 16, 20232 min read
Exit Strategy
Or: That Old School Spirit Did you ever wonder, when you were in high school, what went on behind the faculty lounge door? Did you ever...
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Ben Kemper
May 16, 20233 min read
Double Feature at Hollywood and Vine
Or: Some are born for stardom, some achieve stardom, and some have stardom thrust upon ‘em More than any other era of film (of the...
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Ben Kemper
May 16, 20233 min read
Dorian
Or: A Grand and Tragic Gesture In The Portrait of Dorian Grey Oscar Wilde created a dark and turbulent reflection on art, love (in all...
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Ben Kemper
May 16, 20232 min read
The Railway Man
Or: Slow Drip Despite its frequent appearance on stage and screen I have seen very few credible depictions the deep scaring of war. PTSD,...
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Ben Kemper
May 16, 20232 min read
A Midsummer Night's Dream at Otherworld Theater
Or: Go home Helena, you’re drunk One of the corner stones of classic comedy, Shakespeare’s Midsummer can at times be relegated to a tired...
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Ben Kemper
May 16, 20235 min read
The Lilliput Troupe
A New Play by Gaby Febland Or: The Stuff of Fairytales Once upon a time in a faraway land (or rather in 1944, in the wilds of romania)...
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Ben Kemper
May 16, 20233 min read
Moby Dick a new adaptation from David Catlin
Or: “Madness Maddened” Madness. Madness to speak of it, to even think of it. To bring Moby Dick, that leviathan of literature, to the...
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