A graphic incorporating what looks like letters cut from magazines spells out MessFest January 11-14. A pair of hands (belonging to a person wearing a yellow top with a green open sweater) hold a small clown figurine, with a piece of paper like a dialogue balloon reading "How About It?" floating in the image near the clown's mouth. Pink paper dots surround the hands and clown. The logo for Annoyance Theater (a graphic of a red-bulbed bicycle horn on a black backdrop) is to the left. The backdrop for the entire image is red.

When I was in theater classes at Columbia College Chicago back in the Pleistocene era (i.e., the late 1980s), certain reverse-snob assumptions came out from time to time about the Theatre School at DePaul (which had changed its moniker a few years earlier from the Goodman School of Drama).  DePaul was, to us, the high-toned […]

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