Article: `Butley' Gets an A For Effort

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$15 and $18 (312) 508-5422 BYBy Barry Rice ufwiI I magine the laziest, most embittered teacher who ever spat on your term paper. He's the title character of Center Theater Ensemble's comedy "Butley," Simon Gray's story of an English professor whose personal and professional burnout wreaks chaos among his family, friends and co-workers.

Ben Butley (played masterfully by Dan LaMorte) preoccupies himself with the affairs of his friends to forget his own failing marriage and uninspired teaching career. His main obsession is his protege, a timid gay lecturer named Joey ...

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