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A few flaws mar Bard's playful 'Twelfth Night'

By Barbara Vitello
Jul 16, 2010 12:01 AM - Typically, a director sets a Shakespeare play in an alternate era to make a social or political statement. Case in point: Robert Falls' unrelentingly violent 2006 production of "King Lear," set in the 1990s during the disintegration of the Balkans.
Goodman's 'Good Negro' spotlights the men behind civil rights fight

By Barbara Vitello
May 14, 2010 12:01 AM - "Do what you have to do." That loaded phrase recurs several times throughout "The Good Negro," Tracey Scott Wilson's unflinching, fictionalized account of the civil rights movement during the early 1960s.
Broadway in Chicago hoping 'Elliot' comes close to 'Wicked,' 'Jersey'

By Barbara Vitello
Mar 21, 2010 7:05 AM - Catching lightning in a bottle isn't easy. But Broadway in Chicago has managed it twice in the last decade, first with its blockbuster "Wicked," which ran more than three years, then with "Jersey Boys," which closed after more than two years.
Musician chooses art over loved ones in Metropolis' 'Side Man'

By Barbara Vitello
Mar 19, 2010 12:01 AM - "Side Man" - Warren Leight's semi-autobiographical jazz era encomium about artistic obsession and family dysfunction - falls somewhere between an homage and an admonition.
Drury Lane aims for show of epic proportions

By Barbara Vitello
Mar 17, 2010 12:01 AM - Drury Lane Theatre Oak Brook promises its revival of the Stephen Flaherty-Lynn Ahrens' musical "Ragtime" - about immigrant life in America at the turn of the 20th century - will be its biggest production yet.
Tony n' Tina return to Noble Fool

By Barbara Vitello
Feb 19, 2010 2:13 PM - They're a little late for Valentine's Day, but Tony and his bride are back, and so are their embattled families in Noble Fool's "Tony n' Tina's Wedding."
'Old Settler' explores unlikely love and sisterhood

By Barbara Vitello
Feb 19, 2010 12:01 AM - John Henry Redwood's bittersweet drama "The Old Settler" breaks no new ground. But this wistful play about an unlikely romance and enduring sisterly bonds treads its familiar path with such compassion one can forgive it its predictability.
Marriott revives classic 'Fiddler on the Roof'

By Barbara Vitello
Feb 10, 2010 12:01 AM - Ross Lehman and Paula Scrofano star as the milkman Tevye and his wife Golde in Marriott Theatre's production of "Fiddler on the Roof," the Sheldon Harnick-Joseph Stein musical about Russian Jews who find their world upended on the eve of the Russian Revolution.
Metropolis makes the most of unimaginative farce 'Out of Order'

By Barbara Vitello
Jan 21, 2010 12:01 AM - From mistaken identities and extramarital affairs to pratfalls and slamming doors - and one particularly hazardous window - "Out of Order" incorporates all the elements of a standard bedroom burlesque.
Take a return trip down TV's memory lane at Noble Fool

By Barbara Vitello
Jan 20, 2010 11:35 AM - Noble Fool brings back "TV & Me," comedian Mike Toomey's examination of how his childhood television viewing habits shaped his adult life. The multimedia nostalgia trip features classic sound bytes and Toomey's impressions of TV stars from the 1960s and '70s.

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