Performing Arts
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'Caveman' coming to Noble FoolJul 22, 2008 11:00 pm - 'Caveman' returns The caveman Rob Becker created comes to Noble Fool as the west suburban theater presents the one-man show "Defending the Caveman," a comedic look at c...
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First Folio presents a merry 'Much Ado'Jul 19, 2008 11:00 pm - Just as pride can't frustrate the budding romance of loquacious lovers Beatrice and Benedick and a bit of slander can't divide sweet Hero from her suitor Claudio, a summ...
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Growing Noble Fool company hosts two crowd pleasers this summerJul 17, 2008 11:00 pm - John Gawlik is a quiet man, with Hollywood good looks and a friendly salesman's smile. For the last two years he has been artistic director of the Noble Fool, the theatr...
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July 17 openings and closingsJul 16, 2008 11:00 pm - What's new Azusa Productions' "Onto Infinity," David Alex's May-December romance about a young mathematician who falls in love with his former English teacher, opens tod...
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Physical shtick downplayed in 'Ado'Jul 10, 2008 11:00 pm - Actor and director Michael Goldberg knows how to move. Whether he's doing some intensely physical comic sketch or performing in one of Shozo Sato's Kabuki pieces, he mov...
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'Melville Boys' funny, but has contrived feelJul 09, 2008 11:00 pm - "The Melville Boys" sounds like a vaudeville act. Or at least something about the progeny of the author responsible for "Moby Dick." Actually, "The Melville Boys" is an...
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'Ad-rap-tation' adds plenty of funk to Bard's 'Much Ado'Jul 07, 2008 11:00 pm - Chicago Shakespeare Theater plays it straight with its namesake's plays. Under artistic director Barbara Gaines, productions at CST, winner of the 2008 Regional Theatre ...
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Smoking ban snuffs out cigarettes in play
Jul 07, 2008 11:00 pm - Chicago's smoking ban has forced the cast of "Jersey Boys" to snuff out their cigarettes. Smoking was the norm in the 1950s and 60s when the play about Frankie Valli and...
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New playwright finds audience this summerJul 07, 2008 11:00 pm - For many theater people, summer is traditionally a slow time, but for David Alex, a rising, not-so-young Chicago playwright, this summer turns out to be a time of unusua...
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Letts' 'Donuts' a solid successor to 'August'Jul 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Critics who had sharpened their knives in anticipation of Tracy Letts' "Superior Donuts" will have to sheath their blades. More intimate than its predecessor - the wide...