Barbara Vitello
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Living out her dream at GoodmanJun 19, 2008 11:00 pm - Not many people get to live out their dreams. Lina Kernan, about to make her Goodman Theatre debut in director Chuck Smith's revival of "Ain't Misbehavin'," counts herse...
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Impressive debut for Sideshow's one-man showJun 19, 2008 11:00 pm - New theater companies don't have it easy. Not only do they compete for attention from theatergoers, they compete for attention from critics. Both pose a challenge. Howe...
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Prints on potato chips clinch robbery convictionJun 18, 2008 11:00 pm - Prosecution witnesses talked a lot about bloody footprints and Nike gym shoes they say linked defendant Samuel Span to the April 2006 attack at an Elgin convenience stor...
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Man gets 11 years for friend's murderJun 17, 2008 11:00 pm - In the end, hot tempers and alcohol ruined a friendship, cost Juan Carlos Cardoso his life and ensured that his killer will spend the better part of the next decade as a...
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$1 million bond in Des Plaines stabbing deathJun 15, 2008 11:00 pm - While his fellow Maine West graduates enjoy their summer unfettered, 17-year-old Ashuri Hidou of Des Plaines will likely spend his in jail. At a bond hearing Monday in S...
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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...