Barbara Vitello
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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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'Woman in Black' comes to Glen EllynSep 21, 2007 11:00 pm - "The Woman in Black" 3 stars (out of four) A knowing smile flickered across the face of a fellow critic when I told her I was seeing "The...
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Score soarsSep 20, 2007 11:00 pm - With all due respect to Porchlight Music Theatre, its fine cast, resourceful design team and able directors, the real star of the company's revival of "Phantom" is the t...
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Two plays give unique look at black theaterSep 20, 2007 11:00 pm - Days after Congo Square Theatre's Midwest premiere of Afro-British playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah's "Elmina's Kitchen," Pegasus Players opened its revival of August Wilson'...
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Worth the TripSep 20, 2007 11:00 pm - Ghost story Buffalo Theatre Ensemble begins its 21st season today with the seasonally appropriate "The Woman in Black," about a lawyer who gets more than he bargained fo...
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Chicago game show comes to the 'burbsSep 20, 2007 11:00 pm - "Don't Spit the Water," the offbeat game show that has been playing late nights at Chicago's Playground Theater for a couple of years, begins a two-month run at the Metr...
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Noble Fool's 'Mid-Life' hits right notesSep 17, 2007 11:00 pm - One thing about Noble Fool's "Mid-Life! The Crisis Musical," it's inclusive. Where baby boomer-centered revues like "Menopause the Musical" and "Hats!" focus...
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Brooks would be proud of Marriott's 'Producers'Sep 13, 2007 11:00 pm - Staging the post-Broadway, regional premiere of "The Producers" means shouldering quite a burden. Fortunately, Marriott Theatre has actors Ross Lehman and Gu...
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Chicago Shakespeare emphasizes comedy in Bard romanceSep 13, 2007 11:00 pm - With a nudge and a wink and tongue planted firmly in cheek, Chicago Shakespeare Theater's Barbara Gaines solves the problematic "Cymbeline." She does it by em...