Barbara Vitello
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Steppenwolf's 'August' dominates Tony AwardsJun 15, 2008 11:00 pm - On a hot July afternoon last year, a shiver went up the collective spine of the audience attending the opening of Steppenwolf Theatre's "August: Osage County." It was th...
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Words, music blend in Lookingglass showJun 12, 2008 11:00 pm - The most striking thing about "Nelson Algren: For Keeps and a Single Day," Lookingglass Theatre's artful and absorbing multimedia homage to Chicago's not-quite-native so...
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'Art' looks at fragile bond between menJun 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Friendship can be as inscrutable as a piece of conceptual art: challenging, sometimes frustrating, often delightful and fragile if clumsily handled. While it may not qua...
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'The Lion in Winter' roarsJun 06, 2008 11:00 pm - Few families in the theatrical cannon are more compelling than the feuding royals at the center of "The Lion in Winter," James Goldman's delicious depiction of domestic ...
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Elegant 'Wit' shows toll of cancerJun 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Vivian Bearing personifies our greatest fears. Solitude. Pain. Death. Diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer, the 50-year-old literature professor around whom playwrigh...
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'Gas for Less' is touching story of urban renewalJun 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Customers get more than cheap gas at Art Pelenkovic's Chicago filling station. They get conversation. They get companionship. Or at least they did until gentrification o...
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Court's production of 'First Breeze' just stale airJun 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Happy are those who arrive at the theater without expectations, for they are rarely disappointed. Court Theatre raised this theatergoer's expectations when it announced...
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'O, Boy' Holly falls just a little bit shortMay 30, 2008 11:00 pm - There's nothing wrong with "Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story" that a good writer couldn't fix. And there's nothing wrong with Drury Lane Theatre Oak Brook's diligent, well-m...
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A few incomplete 'Answers' don't hurt this playMay 30, 2008 11:00 pm - In "The Lady With All the Answers," Ann Landers the character addresses the audience the same way Ann Landers the advice columnist addressed her readers: with a combinat...
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Reprieved 'Nunsense' hasn't lost its touchMay 23, 2008 11:00 pm - Beginning last fall with a smartly reimagined regional premiere of "The Producers," and continuing with a triumphant revival of "Les Miserables" earlier this year, big s...