Jeff Sweet: You Only Shoot The Ones You Love
Date and Time
Sunday Jul 10, 2016
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM CDT
Location
Raue Center For The Arts 26 N. Williams Street Crystal Lake, IL 60014
Fees/Admission
Tickets: $15
Description
YOU ONLY SHOOT THE ONES YOU LOVE — One of the hits of 2011’s New York Fringe (reprised in their Encore series), a 75-minute yarn about how the Cossacks almost killed Jeffrey Sweet’s grandmother and what that has to do with a generation of Jews bringing teeth and cojones (look it up) to American comedy. In response to Joe McCarthy, Nixon and HUAC, wits like Nichols and May, Alan Arkin, Shelley Berman, and Jules Feiffer (and Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, Neil Simon and Mel Brooks) invent modern American satire. Stories of mad geniuses, outrageous behavior onstage and off, and how this led to Saturday Night Live, Tina Fey and Stephen Colbert.
