Barbara Vitello
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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...
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Man who robbed Elgin 7-Eleven sentenced to 25 yearsAug 19, 2008 11:00 pm - Prosecutors sought significant jail time for Samuel Span, convicted in June on nine counts of attempted armed robbery and aggravated battery for a 2006 convenience store...
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Writers' Theatre reviving 'Nixon's Nixon'Aug 18, 2008 11:00 pm - Writers' Theatre revives its acclaimed production of "Nixon's Nixon," Russell Lees' imagined exchange between Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger on the night before the m...
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Critic's NotebookAug 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Here's a look at currently running plays recently reviewed by the Daily Herald. "Bleacher Bums," Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, 111 W. Campbell St., Arlington He...
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Hoffman Estates shooter, victim knew each other, prosecutors sayAug 14, 2008 11:00 pm - They don't say how the defendant and victim knew each other, but prosecutors do say that accused gunman Perry Thomas had a prior connection with the 19-year-old man he s...
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Insanity verdict in slaying of Bartlett manAug 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Planning a murder and lying in wait for the victim. Handling bullets with a cloth so as not to leave fingerprints. Disassembling the murder weapon, an SKS semiautomatic ...
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No victory for 'Election Day'Aug 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Like the savvy politician who knows he'll get more mileage serving up platitudes than examining complicated issues, playwright Josh Tobiessen sticks to the superficial i...
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Tension crashes intriguing 'Birthday Party'Aug 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Few critics hailed Harold Pinter's unsettling "The Birthday Party" when it premiered in London 50 years ago. An enigmatic, darkly comic and ambiguous drama concerning co...
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A tart take on 'Desdemona'Aug 10, 2008 11:00 pm - Just as an artful presentation can enliven a ho-hum entree, director Jaclyn Biskup's cheeky, burlesque-inspired approach spices up "Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchie...