Barbara Vitello
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Shattered Globe's 'Menagerie' opens Sept. 4Aug 27, 2008 11:00 pm - Shattered Globe's 'Menagerie' Shattered Globe Theatre artistic director Kevin Hagan stages Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" in the dreamy, highly theatrical sty...
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'Weekend' well acted but doesn't resonateAug 27, 2008 11:00 pm - Like those songs that get recorded but never make it onto the CD, some plays languish in relative obscurity, rarely making their way onto the stage. Gore Vidal's infreq...
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Must-see productions this fallAug 26, 2008 11:00 pm - No one critic can listen to every CD, read every book, review every film or see every play. And that makes for some tough choices, especially during those times like the...
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Local theater companies kick-start their seasonsAug 26, 2008 11:00 pm - If you don't like the theater here, wait a few minutes. It'll change. With all due respect to Mark Twain and his oft-quoted quip about New England weather, the adage als...
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Guilty plea in sex case nets six-year prison termAug 26, 2008 11:00 pm - Nobody had much to say about the Darwin Ramirez verdict. But then, in a case like this, what is there to say? Charged with predatory criminal sexual assault in an incide...
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Suburban productions score big on Jeff nominationsAug 25, 2008 11:00 pm - There's joy in Lincolnshire today with Monday's announcement that Marriott Theatre had received 19 Joseph Jefferson Award nominations, most of them for its brilliantly r...
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Palatine gunplay accident leads to jailAug 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Fooling around with a gun could have cost a teenager his life and 20-year-old man half a lifetime in prison. As it happened, the "gunplay" Aurelio Diaz, his brothers an...
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Judge forms panel to review domestic violence courtAug 21, 2008 11:00 pm - When it comes to domestic violence hearings, segregation is a good thing. Since Cook County's domestic violence courthouse opened in 2005, segregation of victims and the...
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'Fake Lake' entertains and educatesAug 21, 2008 11:00 pm - Rarely has an artistic team expressed righteous indignation as disarmingly as playwright/actor Sharon Greene and director Halena Kays express it in the Neo-Futurists' en...
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Start date finally set for trial in 2004 double slayingAug 19, 2008 11:00 pm - February 2, 2009. The family of Mary Lacey and her mother Margaret Ballog have waited for that day since authorities found the women dead in Lacey's Glenview home nearl...