'Camino Real' through the eyes of Spanish director Calixto Bieito

Late Sunday night, there was a radiant light in the face of the Chicago actress Carolyn Hoerdemann. "This all reminds me of the early days of the European Rep," she said, ebulliently, referencing one of Chicago's most influential avant-garde troupes of the 1990s, and sweeping her hand around a barroom that included several bottles of wine and such game-for-anything Chicago actors as Mark Montgomery, Barbara Robertson and Ron Rains, out together for the evening with Catalan opera and theater director Calixto Bieito.

March 9, 2012