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Role Playing: Karen Woditsch shapes vowels, flings arms to perfect portrait of Julia Child

Oct 16, 2013 – 5:42 pm | 8,875 views
Karen Janes Woditsch

Interview: “Terror is a good place to start,” Karen Janes Woditsch was saying about her beguiling performance as cooking icon Julia Child in “To Master the Art.” “And I started there. I added the ingredients of her character very slowly.”

On grand new stage, ‘To Master the Art’ still whips up Julia Child’s zeal for French cuisine

Oct 1, 2013 – 9:39 pm | 7,412 views
Julia Child (Karen Janes Woditsch) gets her first lesson from chef Bugnard (Terry Hamilton) in To Master the Art. (Giorgio Ventola)

Review: It is like properly prepared scrambled eggs, this rebuilt production of “To Master the Art,” the story of how a tall, kitchen-clueless Californian became the famous Julia Child: basic, sumptuous, irresistible. If this lovely play, written by William Brown and Doug Frew, possessed an intimate charm in its original 2010 staging at TimeLine Theatre that cannot be replicated in the Broadway Playhouse’s grander proscenium venue, its essential warmth and honesty remain undiminished. ★★★★

‘Blood and Gifts’ at TimeLine: Blood-soaked Afghanistan as pawn in U.S.-Russian faceoff

May 11, 2013 – 4:32 pm | 18,981 views
Kareem Bandealy as Abdullah Kahn in Blood and Gifts at TimeLine Theatre credit Lara Goetsch

Review: ★★★★★

‘Variations’ at TimeLine: Seeking the solution to Beethoven’s obsession with a trivial waltz

Sep 18, 2012 – 11:56 pm | 6,356 views
Juliet Hart, Janet Ulrich Brooks and George Lepauw in Chicago premiere of 33 Variations by Moisés Kaufman at TimeLine Theatre 2012 credit Lara Goetsch

Review: ★★★