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Organic Theater Company, the Glossary

Organic Theater Company was founded in 1969 in Madison, Wisconsin by artistic director Stuart Gordon and his wife Carolyn Purdy Gordon.^[1]

61 relations: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Alexander Gelman, Animal Farm, Bartleby, the Scrivener, Billy Roche, Bleacher Bums, Bruce A. Young, Candide, Clark Street (Chicago), David Mamet, Dennis Franz, Diversey Parkway (Chicago), E/R, Edward Albee, Eugène Ionesco, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Gary Garland, George Orwell, Goodman Theatre, Halsted Street, Hello Fascination, Herman Melville, Homer, Huckleberry Finn, Joe Mantegna, John Cameron Mitchell, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, John Ostrander, Joseph Conrad, Joseph Papp, Kunio Shimizu, Kurt Vonnegut, Lincoln Avenue (Chicago), Mark Twain, Mary Renault, Meshach Taylor, Odyssey, Paul Sills, Play Strindberg, Ray Bradbury, Re-Animator, Richard Fire, Richard Henzel, Richard III (play), Roald Dahl, Sebastian Barry, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Stuart Gordon, Switch Bitch, The American Place Theatre, ... Expand index (11 more) »
1969 establishments in Wisconsin

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by American author Mark Twain, which was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885.

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Alexander Gelman

Alexander Gelman (born December 21, 1960), born: Aleksandr Simonovich Gelman (Алекса́ндр Си́монович Ге́льман) is an American theater director and the current Producing Artistic Director of Organic Theater Company in Chicago, Illinois.

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Animal Farm

Animal Farm is a satirical allegorical novella, in the form of a beast fable, by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945.

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Bartleby, the Scrivener

"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 issues of Putnam's Magazine and reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in 1856.

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Billy Roche

Billy Roche (born 11 January 1949) is an Irish playwright and actor.

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Bleacher Bums

Bleacher Bums is a 1977 play written collaboratively by members of Chicago's Organic Theater Company, from an idea by actor Joe Mantegna.

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Bruce A. Young

Bruce Arlington Young (born April 22, 1956) is an American television, film, and stage actor and screenwriter.

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Candide

Candide, ou l'Optimisme is a French satire written by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment, first published in 1759.

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Clark Street (Chicago)

Clark Street is a north–south street in Chicago, Illinois that runs close to the shore of Lake Michigan from the northern city boundary with Evanston, to 2200 South in the city street numbering system.

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David Mamet

David Alan Mamet (born November 30, 1947) is an American playwright, filmmaker, and author.

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Dennis Franz

Dennis Franz Schlachta (born October 28, 1944), known professionally as Dennis Franz, is an American retired actor best known for his role as NYPD Detective Andy Sipowicz in the ABC television series NYPD Blue (1993–2005), a role that earned him a Golden Globe Award, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards.

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Diversey Parkway (Chicago)

Diversey Parkway (2800 N.) is a major east–west street on the North Side of Chicago.

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E/R

E/R is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from September 16, 1984, to February 27, 1985.

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Edward Albee

Edward Franklin Albee III (March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016) was an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), A Delicate Balance (1966), and Three Tall Women (1994).

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Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco (born Eugen Ionescu,; 26 November 1909 – 28 March 1994) was a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French, and was one of the foremost figures of the French avant-garde theatre in the 20th century.

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Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt (5 January 1921 – 14 December 1990) was a Swiss author and dramatist.

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Gary Garland

Gary Joseph Houston (né Garland; born October 12, 1957) is an American former professional basketball player for the Denver Nuggets in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was a British novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell, a name inspired by his favourite place River Orwell.

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Goodman Theatre

Goodman Theatre is a professional theater company located in Chicago's Loop. Organic Theater Company and Goodman Theatre are theatre companies in Chicago.

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Halsted Street

Halsted Street is a major north-south street in the U.S. city of Chicago, Illinois.

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Hello Fascination

Hello Fascination is the second studio album by electronic rock duo Breathe Carolina.

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Herman Melville

Herman Melville (born Melvill; August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period.

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Homer

Homer (Ὅμηρος,; born) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature.

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Huckleberry Finn

Huckleberry "Huck" Finn is a fictional character created by Mark Twain who first appeared in the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and is the protagonist and narrator of its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884).

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Joe Mantegna

Joseph Anthony Mantegna (born November 13, 1947) is an American actor.

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John Cameron Mitchell

John Cameron Mitchell (born April 21, 1963) is an American actor, playwright, screenwriter, singer, songwriter, producer and director.

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John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (officially known as the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, and commonly referred to as the Kennedy Center) is the United States National Cultural Center, located on the eastern bank of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. It was named in 1964 as a memorial to assassinated President John F.

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John Ostrander

John Ostrander (born April 20, 1949) is an American writer of comic books, including Suicide Squad, Grimjack and Star Wars: Legacy.

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Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski,; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British novelist and story writer.

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Joseph Papp

Joseph Papp (born Joseph Papirofsky; June 22, 1921 – October 31, 1991) was an American theatrical producer and director.

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Kunio Shimizu

(17 November 1936 – 15 April 2021) was a Japanese playwright.

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Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American author known for his satirical and darkly humorous novels.

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Lincoln Avenue (Chicago)

Lincoln Avenue is a street of the north side of city of Chicago.

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Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist.

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Mary Renault

Eileen Mary Challans (4 September 1905 – 13 December 1983), known by her pen name Mary Renault ("She always pronounced it 'Ren-olt', though almost everyone would come to speak of her as if she were a French car."), was a British writer best known for her historical novels set in ancient Greece.

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Meshach Taylor

Meshach Taylor (April 11, 1947 – June 28, 2014) was an American actor, widely known for his role as Anthony Bouvier on the CBS sitcom Designing Women (1986–93), for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.

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Odyssey

The Odyssey (Odýsseia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer.

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Paul Sills

Paul Sills (born Paul Silverberg; November 18, 1927 – June 2, 2008) was an American director and improvisation teacher, and the original director of Chicago's The Second City.

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Play Strindberg

Play Strindberg is a comedy play by the Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt, written in 1968 and published in 1969.

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Ray Bradbury

Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter.

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Re-Animator

Re-Animator (also known as H. P. Lovecraft's Re-Animator) is a 1985 American comedy horror film loosely based on the 1922 H. P. Lovecraft serial novelette "Herbert West–Reanimator".

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Richard Fire

Richard Fire (November 12, 1945 – July 8, 2015) was an American theater actor and writer based in Chicago.

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Richard Henzel

Richard Henzel (born June 15, 1949) is a Chicago-based stage, film, TV, and voice-over actor.

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Richard III (play)

Richard III is a play by William Shakespeare.

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Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British author of popular children's literature and short stories, a poet, screenwriter and a wartime fighter ace.

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Sebastian Barry

Sebastian Barry is an Irish novelist, playwright and poet.

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Sexual Perversity in Chicago

Sexual Perversity in Chicago is a play written by David Mamet that examines the sex lives of two men and two women in the 1970s.

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Stuart Gordon

Stuart Alan Gordon (August 11, 1947 – March 24, 2020) was an American filmmaker, theatre director, screenwriter, and playwright.

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Switch Bitch

Switch Bitch (1974) is a book of adult short stories by British writer Roald Dahl.

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The American Place Theatre

The American Place Theatre was founded in 1963 by Wynn Handman, Sidney Lanier, and Michael Tolan at St.

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The King Must Die

The King Must Die is a 1958 bildungsroman and historical novel by Mary Renault that traces the early life and adventures of Theseus, a hero in Greek mythology.

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The Public Theater

The Public Theater is an arts organization in New York City.

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The Secret Agent

The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is an anarchist spy fiction novel by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1907.

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The Sirens of Titan

The Sirens of Titan is a comic science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., first published in 1959. His second novel, it involves issues of free will, omniscience, and the overall purpose of human history, with much of the story revolving around a Martian invasion of Earth.

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The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit

Ray Bradbury's The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit, also known as The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit, is a 1998 American fantasy comedy film directed by Stuart Gordon, written by Ray Bradbury and starring Edward James Olmos, Joe Mantegna, Esai Morales, Clifton Collins Jr. (credited as Clifton Gonzalez Gonzalez), Sid Caesar, Howard Morris and Gregory Sierra.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_Theater_Company

Also known as Organic Theatre Company.

, The King Must Die, The Public Theater, The Secret Agent, The Sirens of Titan, The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit, Thomas P. Riccio, Tom Towles, Warp!, Wendy Wasserstein, William Kotzwinkle, WTTW.

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