Barbara Vitello
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No stopping playwright's 'Rain'Mar 03, 2008 10:00 pm - The cardinal rule of theater is that you should always leave them wanting more. Chicago Dramatists followed that maxim when it closed its popular and critically acclaime...
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Abortion rights drama lukewarmFeb 28, 2008 10:00 pm - Given its incendiary subject matter, you'd think the abortion drama "Keely and Du" would manage to generate more sparks. Centered on abortion rights with men's subjugat...
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'Richard III' is razor-sharpFeb 28, 2008 10:00 pm - Don't come to Strawdog Theatre's bracing "Richard III" expecting to see Shakespeare's most beguiling villain hunchbacked and shuffling, withered arm limp at his side. Ev...
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'Jersey Boys' to stay in ChicagoFeb 27, 2008 10:00 pm - The record-setting touring production of "Jersey Boys" which settled into an extended stay following its triumphant October debut at the LaSalle Bank Theatre, will make ...
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Minor flaws can't mar 'Les Mis'Feb 22, 2008 10:00 pm - Marriott Theatre's on a roll. After snagging the rights to "The Producers" last year, the Lincolnshire theater scored another coup when it obtained the rights to "Les Mi...
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American dream gets close examination in haunting operaFeb 21, 2008 10:00 pm - Whatever trouble it takes to get to Evanston's Next Theatre, Leonard Bernstein's jazzy "Trouble in Tahiti" is worth it. An erudite chamber opera exposing the reality be...
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Religious stereotypes flaw romantic comedyFeb 21, 2008 10:00 pm - Tony Fiorentino certainly has drive. He wrote, directed and stars in "My Dinner with Amy," a romantic comedy about an atheist academic who bets a born-again Christian th...
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Exquisite 'As You LIke It'Feb 21, 2008 10:00 pm - William Shakespeare's "As You Like It" is a delicious confection. A comedy in which battling brothers, devoted cousins, obsessed shepherds and flippant fools traipse ar...
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'Rabbit Hole': A whole lot of heartFeb 16, 2008 10:00 pm - There's no recrimination like self-recrimination. And self-recrimination abounds in "Rabbit Hole," a quietly moving examination of loss, grief and guilt by David Lindsay...
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Droll 'Augusta' scrutinizesFeb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - Talk about being nickel and dimed. Writer Barbara Ehrenreich, who spent a year waiting tables, cleaning houses and ringing up purchases at a big box store researching he...