Articles filed under Theater
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What's still onstageFeb 28, 2008 10:00 pm - Comedy whodunit Steel Beam Theatre's season continues with Gerald Moon's comedic mystery thriller, "Corpse!" a family-friendly show about a brother's plot to rub out his...
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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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Playwright takes aim at Arab stereotypesFeb 28, 2008 10:00 pm - Yussef El Guindi is an educated cultivated man, with a graceful way of speaking and a refined English-accent many Midwestern Americans, with our broad, awkward vowels, w...
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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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'Les Miz' goes lite for Marriott spaceFeb 21, 2008 10:00 pm - 'Les Mierables' getting smaller for Marriott space From the moment "Les Miserables "was announced as part of the Marriott Theater season, theater aficionados have been w...
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AuditionsFeb 21, 2008 10:00 pm - • Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre has auditions for a concert version of the Gershwins' folk opera "Porgy and Bess" from 7 to 9 p.m. March 14 and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. March...