Barbara Vitello
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Spunky Circle Theatre stages equally spunky 'Can-Can'Mar 08, 2008 10:00 pm - You have to admire spunky Circle Theatre. The company's tiny Forest Park storefront doesn't allow artistic director Kevin Bellie to stage musicals on the same scale as s...
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Arabs in AmericaMar 06, 2008 10:00 pm - Compromise and obligation. The twin challenges budding artists confront prove especially acute for minorities. Should they alter their work to ensure commercial succes...
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Redtwist gives Albee's 'Woolf' an intimate, up-close feelMar 06, 2008 10:00 pm - The set for redtwist theatre's revival of Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" looks nothing like you'd expect. Designer Anders Jacobson does away with the...
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'Heat Wave' suffers meltdown on stageMar 06, 2008 10:00 pm - As a critique of a civic disaster, "Heat Wave" sizzles. As theater, it sputters. Not because it lacks a compelling story, but because it fails to tell that story in a c...
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Good year on tap for theatersMar 06, 2008 10:00 pm - The 2008-2009 season announcements from Chicago's Court, Goodman and Steppenwolf theaters include a couple of coups and the return of some local favs, making for what lo...
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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...