CHICAGO – When in the presence of a powerful acting force like Michael Shannon, the depth of performance is emotional and passionately essential. He co-leads with Travis A. Knight in Red Orchid Theatre’s World Premiere of Levi Holloway’s “Turret,” just extended to June 22nd at the Chopin Theatre.
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Film Feature: HollywoodChicago.com Remembers Sidney Poitier
Submitted by PatrickMcD on January 10, 2022 - 2:34pm- 94
- A Raisin in the Sun
- Blackboard Jungle
- Dead
- Dies
- Film News
- Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
- HollywoodChicago.com Content
- In the Heat of the Night
- Jon Lennon Espino
- Let’s Do it Again
- Lilies of the Field
- Michael Spike Walters
- No Way Out
- Obituary
- Passed Away
- Patrick McDonald
- Sidney Poitier is Dead
- Sneakers
- The Defiant Ones
- To Sir with Love
CHICAGO – With the passing of actor Sidney Poitier at the age of 94 on January 6th, 2022, another lion of the cinema – who represented succinctly an era of the movies – has left the mortal coil. HollywoodChicago.com presents the following appreciation through three film essays in retrospect by Patrick McDonald, Spike Walters and Jon Lennon Espino.