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Role Playing: Gary Perez channels his Harlem youth as quiet, unflinching Julio in ‘The Hat’

Feb 20, 2013 – 6:21 pm
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Interview: One of the most appealing, indeed endearing, performances to be seen on Chicago theater stages this season is Gary Perez’s quietly philosophical, yet vaguely dangerous turn as Julio, the gay cousin and one true friend in Stephen Adly Guirgis’ play “The ______ With the Hat” at Steppenwolf. Perez credits director Anna D. Shapiro with framing Julio as worldly-wise and possessed of a Zen-like calm, the one really centered character in a collection of loose cannons.

Amid a storm of obscenities, but with a flair, Steppenwolf pulls off a hysterical ‘Hat’ trick

Jan 10, 2013 – 3:07 pm
John Ortiz is Jackie in Steppenwolf The __ with the Hat by Stephen Adly Guirgis, photo Michael Brosilow

Review: ★★★★★