Articles filed under Professional Theater
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Theater events: Shattered Globe opens 25th season with 'Marvin's Room'Sep 25, 2015 6:00 am - Shattered Globe at 25 Shattered Globe Theatre opens its 25th season with a 25th anniversary production of Chicago playwright Scott McPherson's tragicomedy "Marvin's...
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Waukegan Park District announces performing arts season scheduleSep 25, 2015 5:00 am - The Waukegan Park District Cultural Arts Division has announced the 2015/16 performing arts season, including three productions by the Bowen Park Theatre Company and the...
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Goodman's engrossing 'Disgraced' reveals sobering truthsSep 23, 2015 11:00 pm - Melancholy came over me as I walked to my car after seeing Goodman Theatre's “Disgraced.” Not about Ayad Akhtar's 2013 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, a provoking examinati...
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Metropolis' fun-filled 'Spamalot' looks on the bright sideSep 22, 2015 6:00 am - Believe it or not, this year marks the 40th anniversary of the release of “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” the British (plus one American) comedy troupe's first origin...
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Paramount's rousing 'Oklahoma!' more than OK despite scenic misstepSep 22, 2015 1:00 am - The Paramount Theatre's new production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's “Oklahoma!” should have been a victory lap for the Aurora-based theater that defied the odds by launc...
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George Wendt earns title in Northlight's 'Funnyman'Sep 20, 2015 11:00 pm - Sight gags get laughs. Playwright Bruce Graham knows it and uses one to great effect in his solid new dramedy “Funnyman,” which premiered to a chorus of belly laughs fr...
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Chicago Shakespeare conjures imaginative, enchanting 'Tempest'Sep 18, 2015 1:45 pm - Chicago Shakespeare Theater made magic at Thursday's opening of "The Tempest." Literally. Sleight-of-hand as well as larger illusions dominate this beguiling reinventio...
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Theater events: First Folio remounts 'Madness of Edgar Allan Poe'Sep 18, 2015 6:00 am - Tribute to Poe First Folio Theatre revives its original work "The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe: A Love Story," adapted by David Rice from Poe's poems and stories inc...
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BoHo Theatre delivers sensitive, well-cast 'Dogfight'Sep 16, 2015 12:15 pm - If you are a fan of Chicago-area theater who doesn't yet know the names of singer/actors Emily Goldberg and Garrett Lutz, you should. And if their candid performances in...
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Chicago's Second City reopens ThursdaySep 14, 2015 1:00 am - The Second City will resume performances Thursday with an 8 p.m. show that will include in the audience Chicago firefighters who helped battle a blaze in the theater...