Articles filed under Theater
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Cirque's new show still dazzlesJun 27, 2008 11:00 pm - The more grounded (in every sense of the word), yet still enthralling "KOOZA" marked Cirque du Soleil's return to Chicago after a two-year absence. Gone are the dazzlin...
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Too 'Much Ado About Nothing'?Jun 26, 2008 11:00 pm - Oh, the embarrassment! Imagine showing up to a summer party only to find someone else wearing your exact same outfit. Fashion mavens forever fear finding other people sp...
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Local director revives once-popular love taleJun 26, 2008 11:00 pm - Plays are revived all the time. But it isn't often that a play like "repeat w/Madeline," by Chicago writer and film maker Hurt McDermott, gets done. Even though the play...
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Fresh off Tony win, Chicago playwright serves up 'Donuts'Jun 25, 2008 11:00 pm - Tracy Letts has earned some time off. For more than a year, "August: Osage County," his blistering dysfunctional family drama that took first Chicago and then New York ...
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Family comedy looks at bond, and anger, between siblingsJun 19, 2008 11:00 pm - "Relatively Close," a zany if bitter family comedy, is a metaphor for the Iraq war. That's what playwright James Sherman says, noting that both conflicts pit siblings a...
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Living out her dream at GoodmanJun 19, 2008 11:00 pm - Not many people get to live out their dreams. Lina Kernan, about to make her Goodman Theatre debut in director Chuck Smith's revival of "Ain't Misbehavin'," counts herse...
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Impressive debut for Sideshow's one-man showJun 19, 2008 11:00 pm - New theater companies don't have it easy. Not only do they compete for attention from theatergoers, they compete for attention from critics. Both pose a challenge. Howe...
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Steppenwolf's 'August' dominates Tony AwardsJun 15, 2008 11:00 pm - On a hot July afternoon last year, a shiver went up the collective spine of the audience attending the opening of Steppenwolf Theatre's "August: Osage County." It was th...
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Words, music blend in Lookingglass showJun 12, 2008 11:00 pm - The most striking thing about "Nelson Algren: For Keeps and a Single Day," Lookingglass Theatre's artful and absorbing multimedia homage to Chicago's not-quite-native so...
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'Art' looks at fragile bond between menJun 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Friendship can be as inscrutable as a piece of conceptual art: challenging, sometimes frustrating, often delightful and fragile if clumsily handled. While it may not qua...