Performing Arts
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'Heat Wave' suffers meltdown on stageMar 06, 2008 10:00 pm - As a critique of a civic disaster, "Heat Wave" sizzles. As theater, it sputters. Not because it lacks a compelling story, but because it fails to tell that story in a c...
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Good year on tap for theatersMar 06, 2008 10:00 pm - The 2008-2009 season announcements from Chicago's Court, Goodman and Steppenwolf theaters include a couple of coups and the return of some local favs, making for what lo...
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'Corpse!' builds in laughs as the night, and bodies, add upMar 03, 2008 10:00 pm - What would the theater be without identical twins? Shakespeare sprinkled them generously into his plots, and British farces like "Corpse!" rely on them to keep audiences...
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No stopping playwright's 'Rain'Mar 03, 2008 10:00 pm - The cardinal rule of theater is that you should always leave them wanting more. Chicago Dramatists followed that maxim when it closed its popular and critically acclaime...
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AuditionsFeb 28, 2008 10:00 pm - • Music On Stage of Palatine is seeking directors and choreographers for its 2008-2009 season. The season begins with "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," con...
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What's still onstageFeb 28, 2008 10:00 pm - Comedy whodunit Steel Beam Theatre's season continues with Gerald Moon's comedic mystery thriller, "Corpse!" a family-friendly show about a brother's plot to rub out his...
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Abortion rights drama lukewarmFeb 28, 2008 10:00 pm - Given its incendiary subject matter, you'd think the abortion drama "Keely and Du" would manage to generate more sparks. Centered on abortion rights with men's subjugat...
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Playwright takes aim at Arab stereotypesFeb 28, 2008 10:00 pm - Yussef El Guindi is an educated cultivated man, with a graceful way of speaking and a refined English-accent many Midwestern Americans, with our broad, awkward vowels, w...
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'Richard III' is razor-sharpFeb 28, 2008 10:00 pm - Don't come to Strawdog Theatre's bracing "Richard III" expecting to see Shakespeare's most beguiling villain hunchbacked and shuffling, withered arm limp at his side. Ev...
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'Jersey Boys' to stay in ChicagoFeb 27, 2008 10:00 pm - The record-setting touring production of "Jersey Boys" which settled into an extended stay following its triumphant October debut at the LaSalle Bank Theatre, will make ...