Performing Arts
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Fresh off Tony win, Chicago playwright serves up 'Donuts'Jun 25, 2008 11:00 pm - Tracy Letts has earned some time off. For more than a year, "August: Osage County," his blistering dysfunctional family drama that took first Chicago and then New York ...
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Family comedy looks at bond, and anger, between siblingsJun 19, 2008 11:00 pm - "Relatively Close," a zany if bitter family comedy, is a metaphor for the Iraq war. That's what playwright James Sherman says, noting that both conflicts pit siblings a...
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Living out her dream at GoodmanJun 19, 2008 11:00 pm - Not many people get to live out their dreams. Lina Kernan, about to make her Goodman Theatre debut in director Chuck Smith's revival of "Ain't Misbehavin'," counts herse...
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Impressive debut for Sideshow's one-man showJun 19, 2008 11:00 pm - New theater companies don't have it easy. Not only do they compete for attention from theatergoers, they compete for attention from critics. Both pose a challenge. Howe...
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Steppenwolf's 'August' dominates Tony AwardsJun 15, 2008 11:00 pm - On a hot July afternoon last year, a shiver went up the collective spine of the audience attending the opening of Steppenwolf Theatre's "August: Osage County." It was th...
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Words, music blend in Lookingglass showJun 12, 2008 11:00 pm - The most striking thing about "Nelson Algren: For Keeps and a Single Day," Lookingglass Theatre's artful and absorbing multimedia homage to Chicago's not-quite-native so...
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'Art' looks at fragile bond between menJun 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Friendship can be as inscrutable as a piece of conceptual art: challenging, sometimes frustrating, often delightful and fragile if clumsily handled. While it may not qua...
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Emerald City gives actor a chance as playwright for 'Pirate'Jun 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Thirteen years ago, when Alyn Cardarelli formed the Chicago-based children's theater, the Emerald City Theatre Company with his wife, Karen, he thought his contribution ...
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'The Lion in Winter' roarsJun 06, 2008 11:00 pm - Few families in the theatrical cannon are more compelling than the feuding royals at the center of "The Lion in Winter," James Goldman's delicious depiction of domestic ...
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Falling out with one theater opened door at anotherJun 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Change happens. And that's not always bad. Just ask Downers Grove-based Ray Frewen, director of "A Bench in the Sun," opening Saturday at Highland Park's Apple Tree Thea...