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Hanrahan and Wassilak Are Devilishly Fun at the FAUSTival

Hanrahan and Wassilak Are Devilishly Fun at the FAUSTival

By Bradley Rohlf Contributing Writer “An Apology for the Course and Outcome of Certain Events Delivered by Doctor John Faustus on This His Final Evening” must undoubtedly be one of the longest titles for an English language play ever. Ironically, it’s not actually that long of a play.

Joe Hanrahan and David Wassilak performed the show as part of the FAUSTival series at The Monocle in St. Louis’…

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Final Play Added to the 2018 Season at Bridge Street Theatre

Hallelujah! Bridge Street Theatre has at last been able to nail down the remaining play in its 2018 Theatre Subscription Series. Now slated for a two-weekend run from September 6 – 16 is Chicago-area playwright Mickle Maher’s joyous and unexpectedly raucous celebration of art, ardor, and inappropriately public displays of affection (written entirely in rhymed couplets) “There Is a Happiness That…

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(via http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/mickle-maher-jim-lehrer-theater-and-its-double-theater-oobleck/Content?oid=25252214)

What does Chicago playwright Mickle Maher got against Jim Lehrer?

When people ask me who my playwriting/theatre-making influences are, I list old-school favorites like Shakespeare and some slightly less-old-school ones like George S. Kaufman, but I don’t really have many contemporary playwright influences. Maybe Dan Dietz, maybe Sarah Ruhl, maybe Sheila Callaghan (depending on the play). But the one playwright I think is an absolute genius is Chicago’s Mickle Maher. He writes these delightfully high-concept, small-scale chamber pieces that ride the line between being anti-theatre and supreme metatheatre.

He and his awesome, scrappy long-time company Theater Oobleck are currently presenting his newest play entiteled Jim Leher and the Theatre and Its Double and Jim Leher’s Double.

My new role as a parent prevents me from dropping everything and heading off to Chaicago to see it. If you are in Chicago, make an effort to get out to catch it.

This sums up Maher brilliantly, from the Chicago Reader article linked above:

Maher himself is as good a playwright as any working in America today. He does small, smart, and edgy, though, so who knows if he'll get the acknowledgment he deserves. Then again, we may need him in the near future...

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A text needs to feel important to you, as a lover might.

- Mickle Maher