Performing Arts
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Potential fulfilled in powerful 'Passion'Oct 11, 2007 11:00 pm - Watching Chicago Shakespeare Theater's intimate revival of "Passion," I was struck again by the brilliance of Stephen Sondheim's rhapsodic score, whose haunting ...
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AuditionsOct 11, 2007 11:00 pm - Arts agenda • The Lyric Opera of Chicago holds auditions for supernumeraries (extras) and a male actor to play Lt. Bush for its winter production of John Adams and ...
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Let's hear it for the boyzOct 11, 2007 11:00 pm - The guys were preaching to the choir at Sunday's opening of "Altar Boyz." The knowing laughter coming from the enthusiastic crowd at Chicago's Drury Lane Water T...
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Out & AboutOct 10, 2007 11:00 pm - "Playhouse Disney Live," at 10:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Friday, 2 and 5 p.m. Saturday, and 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Oct. 14 at the Rosemont Theatre, 5400 N. River Road, Rosemo...
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Nothing foolish about fast-paced playOct 07, 2007 11:00 pm - At 75 minutes, New World Repertory Theater's production of "Fool For Love" is pretty brisk. (Although not as brisk as Signal Ensemble Theatre's recent revival of the Sam...
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Powerful acting drives gripping police dramaOct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - Watching Keith Huff's unrelenting "A Steady Rain" is like watching the entire season of "The Shield" condensed into 90 minutes. Forget must-see TV. Director ...
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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...