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Article: Founder of Buffalo Theatre Ensemble brought serious theater to suburbs.(Time Out!)
- Article from:
- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- March 24, 2000
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With his distracted professor's look and thinning tousled hair, Craig Berger might not look it, but he was a pioneer of suburban Chicago theater.
At a time (the late '80s) when Chicago theaters were getting most of the press and attention, Berger founded a professional theater company at the College of DuPage, the Buffalo Theatre Ensemble, which is currently staging Tony Kushner's two-part, seven-hour epic "Angels in America."
Born in the small town of Jonesville, Mich., and interested in theater since he was a kid, Berger came to the College of DuPage in 1970 to teach theater after a stint teaching high school in Oregon.
After a few years of ...