Performing Arts
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The Bard goes BollywoodOct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - If Shishir Kurup doesn't solve all the problems inherent in Shakespeare's thorny "The Merchant of Venice," he at least assigns culpability objectively in his dro...
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Hypocrites carries O'Neill classicOct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - A revival of a 20th century classic, a Chicago premiere and a world premiere are among the recent openings. 'Desire Under the Elms' The Hypocrites don't do melodrama as ...
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Heart of 'Sparrow' rises above conventionsOct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - The storybook saga of "The Sparrow" continues. An imaginative, beguilingly told coming-of-age fairy tale about a young girl with a wounded spirit and special...
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Theater group turns its reducing eyes on HollywoodOct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - Austin Tichenor has built a career out of making nothing out of something. As a member of the crazy Reduced Shakespeare Company, he helped squeeze all of Shakespeare's p...
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Impressive 'La Boheme' debut for Mimi understudyOct 03, 2007 11:00 pm - Lyric Opera of Chicago's Saturday-Monday opening "weekend" is history, and now, "La traviata" and "La Boheme" will be with us exclusively for the rest of this month and ...
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Impressive 'La Boheme' debut for Mimi understudyOct 01, 2007 11:00 pm - Lyric Opera of Chicago's Saturday-Monday opening "weekend" is history, and now, "La traviata" and "La Boheme" will be with us exclusively for the rest of this month and ...
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Time well-spentSep 27, 2007 11:00 pm - When does 3#189; hours not feel like 3#189; hours? When one spends them immersed in Goodman Theatre's remarkable production of Sarah Ruhl's "Passio...
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Theater season heats up with two new showsSep 27, 2007 11:00 pm - After a relatively quiet August, the Chicago area theater season has begun in earnest. Below are reviews of two recent openings. "Suddenly, Last Summer" The first thing ...
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Steppenwolf's 'Crucible' a drama of its time and all timeSep 27, 2007 11:00 pm - Anyone familiar with "The Crucible" knows Arthur Miller's allegory -- a thinly veiled attack on McCarthyism set during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 -- as a cautionary ...
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'The Sparrow' shows that it has legs with new revivalSep 27, 2007 11:00 pm - Some shows open, get respectable reviews (or not) and then close. And that's it. But only once in a blue moon a show comes along that is so popular it has a life beyond ...