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Theatre Communications Group, the national organization for non-profit theater, named Steppenwolf Artistic Director Martha Lavey its new board president. TCG is also the U.S. center of the International Theatre Institute. Goodman Executive director Roche Schulfer joins the board for the first time, and Rachel Kraft, Lookingglass executive director, returns to the board. It’s great to see such strong Chicago representation in the national organization!

If one of your biggest regrets is you never got to Los Angeles to see a live taping of “Friends,” Lookingglass Theatre has the next best thing. David Schwimmer - or Ross for those of us that spent too much time lip-synching “I’ll Be There for You” during the credits - is on stage as George in Thornton Wilder’s Our Town.

. Perhaps you recall the kerfluffle with Chris Jones back in January, when Jones reported that this was already a done deal and Schwimmer denied it. Anyhow, it's on like Donkey Kong now.

We can't believe we never heard about this before, but it took us years to hear about this, so we definitely miss things. There is a free monthly interview series called Writers on the Record with Victoria Lautman. It's a live interview hosted by Victoria Lautman at the Lookingglass Theatre and takes place Sundays at noon.

We’re not scared of big books. In fact, we love big books, the bigger the better. It’s like those restaurant contests where you win something if you eat that big, huge cheeseburger. We always know we can eat it and we see it as challenging more than daunting.

One of the coolest things we love about The Lookingglass Theatre Company, besides its stage adaptation of Stuart Dybek’s The Coast of Chicago, is its new literary series Writers on Record. Every month or so, Victoria Lautman, a contributor at WBEZ, interviews authors in a free event at the still-newish Lookingglass space in the Water Tower. This month, Lautman will host Margo Jefferson to discuss her book On Michael Jackson. Jefferson, a Chicago native, is...

James Frey discovered the glare of the Oprah’s Book Club spotlight isn’t always wine and roses. But Elie Wiesel and his haunting memoir Night, which Oprah selected for the next Book Club reading, isn’t likely to see the same fate. Wiesel's chilling account of life in a Nazi concentration camp and subsequent aftermath has stood up to 50 years of scrutiny. And anyone who suggests the Nobel Peace Prize winner embellished his story risks becoming...

As we quietly nurse away the after-effects of last night’s Happy Hour, it seems appropriate that we discuss a film about the dangers of alcoholism. Duane Hopwoood stars Northwestern grad and Lookingglass Theatre gadfly David Schwimmer as a man who fights to keep his life and family together as he struggles with his addiction to booze. The Trib’s Michael Wilmington draws the inevitable comparison to The Weather Man in a 2 ½ star review while...

Note: This is Part 1 of a series. You didn't think we'd cover every company in one post, did you? On the first day of summer the last thing on your mind is how you’ll spend next winter. But more than a few theater companies hope that in between getting cultured outdoors and gulping down overpriced beverages at festivals, you’ll reserve a subscription for 2005-2006. It's impossible in June to know who will curry favor...

Why waste your weekend with the Patriots and the Eagles when the clowns are in town? Chicago Winter Delights presents its mostly free “Clown Around Town” fest, inviting you to “Celebrate the circus arts by taking the family to acrobatic workshops, clown performances, and even a circus museum exhibition!”

Hot scribe of the moment Susanna Clarke is scheduled to speak at the Lookingglass Theatre on Dec. 19 as part of WFMT’s most excellent “Writers on the Record” series with host Victoria Lautman.

We kind of thought we'd be hearing more about this, but for some reason it's been pretty quiet. Susan Orlean will be in Chicago on Sunday as Victoria Lautman's guest on "Writers on the Record," a radio interview show.