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Spotlight: Elgin’s Janus updates ‘School for Lies’ and Aurora’s Paramount stages ‘Come From Away’Aug 12, 2025 4:17 pm - Janus Theatre stages a contemporary take on Moliere’s 17th-century satire “School for Lies” and Paramount Theatre presents the regional premiere of the musical “Come From Away.”
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‘We're all a little heartbroken’: Aurora’s Copley Theatre will go darkAug 06, 2025 4:17 pm - When the curtain falls on Paramount Theatre's stellar revival of “True West” later this month, the Copley Theatre in Aurora, home of Paramount's Bold series, goes dark.
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Spotlight: Hershey Felder channels Russian composer in ‘Rachmaninoff and the Tsar’Aug 05, 2025 10:13 am - Pianist/actor Hershey Felder returns to Writers Theatre to perform his latest composer bio-tuner “Rachmaninoff and the Tsar” while Oil Lamp Theater salutes the late great Stephen Sondheim with the jukebox revue “Side by Side by Sondheim.”
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A chat with the Almighty: Williams Street Repertory delivers praiseworthy ‘Act of God’Aug 07, 2024 1:34 pm - Williams Street Repertory delivers a praiseworthy revival of David Javerbaum’s sly satire “An Act of God.”
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History illuminated: Women play 19th-century male explorers in Janus Theatre’s ‘Men on Boats’May 30, 2024 8:35 am - An all-female cast plays members of John Wesley Powell’s 19th-century geological expedition to what is now known as the Grand Canyon in Janus Theatre’s revival of “Men on Boats” by Jaclyn Backhaus.
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Perfect ‘English’: Goodman’s funny, provocative Chicago-area premiere ponders the price of proficiencyMay 24, 2024 12:56 pm - The deceptively simple “English,” Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about Iranians learning to speak the titular language, is a lovely, thought-provoking examination of language and identity. It runs through June 16 at Goodman Theatre.
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Shrewd satire: Earnest performances, canny direction animate Steppenwolf’s ‘Thanksgiving Play’May 08, 2024 9:30 am - Playwright Larissa FastHorse packs a lot of satire into the 90-minute “The Thanksgiving Play,” which skewers Indigenous stereotypes, liberal guilt, sanitized history, theater and wokeness. Steppenwolf Theatre’s Chicago premiere runs through June 2.
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Redemption tale: Jason Alexander stars in Chicago Shakes’ premiere of ‘Judgment Day’May 02, 2024 11:25 am - Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s “Judgment Day” has a not-so-secret weapon, and his name is Jason Alexander.
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Steppenwolf at its best: ‘Purpose’ premiere delivers hard truths, hearty laughsMar 27, 2024 10:06 am - “Purpose,” Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ outstanding domestic drama premiering at Steppenwolf Theatre, rings familiar. Not only for the insight and wit characteristic of Jacobs-Jenkins’ writing, but for its central characters: members of a prominent Black Chicago family with roots in religion, politics and the civil rights movement.
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Laugh Out Loud Theater leaving Streets of Woodfield in SchaumburgFeb 06, 2024 6:10 pm - The Laugh Out Loud Theater will leave its permanent location at Streets of Woodfield in Schaumburg in April after 17 years to become an itinerant troupe of improv com...
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