HINTS—
Across:
1) Hint: It happens in the house that Potter built for his wife Bertha
6) Hint: One of many highly acclaimed works by playwright Ike Holter performed on Chicago stages in recent years
7) Hint: And in this production, the famous opening line of the novel upon which it is based is saved for the closer.
9) Hint: In this, it’s sixth year, they had performers from Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, Finland, Puerto Rico, India, the U.K. and Chicago
10) Hint: Some were Bunraku stars
11) Hint: Even though it’s a radio play, he and we may be channeling film star Jimmy Stewart
12_Hint: One of their two 2019 BEST PLAY PICKS sounds a bit buggy and is likely the world’s first and only play about the Higgs Boson
15) HINT: The playwright of this 2019 Best Play Pick was a 1998 MacArthur Genius Award Winner, among other credits
16) Hint: This real-world tale of terror was experienced and told to the playwright by his mother
17) Hint: In this play they told a story surrounding a Stockholm bombing
19) Hint: Produced by a theater named for a road that also inspires cellist Yo-Yo Ma
22) Hint: The cast of this musical assures “we got the beat”
25) Hint: The cast of this musical assures “we got the beat”
26) Hint: The playwright who penned their 2019 Best Play Pick shares a sir name with one of FDR’s closest WWII collaborators
27) Hint: Today, they’d have to adjust the name of this character’s play by more than 9 million
29) Hint: Its subtitle is “AN X-TRA SENSORY XPERIENCE”
31) Hint: Their name traces bag to hot air politicians, and not the weather.
32) Hint: Takes place in the same city where the world’s largest arts festival is held
33) Hint: She also spent her entire life living down her poet father’s reputation
34) Hint: Director Elizabeth Margolius casts dancer Jenny Ng in this title role, a story about brothers, love and disability
37) Hint: The author who penned the novel this script is adapted from is certainly no plain Jane.
38) Hint: Their 2019 Best Play Pick was a RomCom for millennials
39) HINT: A presidential candidate—who won!—took his theme song from this play.
41) Hint: This adaptation is based on the work of a Chicago novelist whose name conjures a loud shout or a lung
42) Hint: Soothsayer Nostradamus predicts that the future of theatre demands that singing, dancing, and acting must happen at the same time – and the musical was born
43) HINT: Setting is outer space
44) Hint: The theater is named for a place Dorothy sought out in her search for home
45) Hint: Starring McKenna, Reiter, Wiens and Ward
46) Hint: They put the play in playhouse
DOWN:
2) Hint: The Nazis banned the novel this theater’s BEST PLAY PICK was adapted from—declaring it “degenerate”.
3) Hint: That original production was directed by Gary Sinise and included John Malkovich in the cast
4) Hint: Without the main character’s skills, it’s likely nobody would have gotten 23 AND ME for Xmas
6) Hint: The theater which staged this play, and two other Picture This Post Best Play Picks 2019, started out in the back of a pub
8) HINT: The original producers of this play were scoundrels
13) HINT: The main characters portrayed in this play would likely give their workplace a failing grade
14) Hint: The main character is anything but a pessimist
18) Hint: Scenic Designer David Korins and Project Designer Peter Nigrini fill the stage with social media posts with a frenzy that some might describe as presidential
20) Hint: One of these plays opens with the line “I want a kid.”
21) HINT: Most of the performers in the frozen graveyard piece seem to vanish into thin air
23) HINT: The theater staging this play received new grants this year to expand their artivism in Chicago’s many neighborhoods. Most of the time, however, they hang out in a Chicago landmark once famed for hosting coyotes.
24) Hint: Quick changes faster than you can say Quidditch
26) Hint: What happens when you marry Nintendo and the Bard? This 2019 Best Play Pick!
28) Hint: One of the four 2019 Best Play Picks in which actress Chaon Cross performs
30) Hint: True, Chicagoans gave Patricia Racette a standing ovation; but for her performance in the movie about this “walk”, Susan Sarandon got an Oscar
35) Hint: This 2019 Best Play Pick was staged by the only theater in Chicagoland that gives Berwyn residents a special ticket price break.
36) Hint: Here, it’s the second time we meet one character wearing a towel, and the first time we meet the other two cast members in similar costume.
38) HINT: The only 6-hour Chicago play where you wear your sneakers, sign a Park District Waiver, and then drink wine and eat food with the cast
39) Hint: Produced by a theater group that takes its name from 16th Century collections of unusual objects
40) Hint: Now these queens have gone to Broadway in New York!
42) HINT: This 2019 Best Play Pick penned by a Korea-born playwright showcases a story of an emotionally abused Korean-American child
