Articles filed under Theater
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Emerald City gives actor a chance as playwright for 'Pirate'Jun 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Thirteen years ago, when Alyn Cardarelli formed the Chicago-based children's theater, the Emerald City Theatre Company with his wife, Karen, he thought his contribution ...
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'The Lion in Winter' roarsJun 06, 2008 11:00 pm - Few families in the theatrical cannon are more compelling than the feuding royals at the center of "The Lion in Winter," James Goldman's delicious depiction of domestic ...
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Falling out with one theater opened door at anotherJun 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Change happens. And that's not always bad. Just ask Downers Grove-based Ray Frewen, director of "A Bench in the Sun," opening Saturday at Highland Park's Apple Tree Thea...
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Elegant 'Wit' shows toll of cancerJun 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Vivian Bearing personifies our greatest fears. Solitude. Pain. Death. Diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer, the 50-year-old literature professor around whom playwrigh...
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'Gas for Less' is touching story of urban renewalJun 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Customers get more than cheap gas at Art Pelenkovic's Chicago filling station. They get conversation. They get companionship. Or at least they did until gentrification o...
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New play explores what search reveals about usJun 05, 2008 11:00 pm - PHILADELPHIA -- They are an unquestionably bizarre set of Internet search terms: Mange. Human mold. White camellia. Dying Elmo. Could those words also be clues to findin...
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Theater newsJun 05, 2008 11:00 pm - High 'Art' Steel Beam Theatre presents Yasmina Reza's Tony Award-winning play about the seismic shifts that rock the relationship between three longtime friends whe...
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Court's production of 'First Breeze' just stale airJun 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Happy are those who arrive at the theater without expectations, for they are rarely disappointed. Court Theatre raised this theatergoer's expectations when it announced...
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'O, Boy' Holly falls just a little bit shortMay 30, 2008 11:00 pm - There's nothing wrong with "Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story" that a good writer couldn't fix. And there's nothing wrong with Drury Lane Theatre Oak Brook's diligent, well-m...
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A few incomplete 'Answers' don't hurt this playMay 30, 2008 11:00 pm - In "The Lady With All the Answers," Ann Landers the character addresses the audience the same way Ann Landers the advice columnist addressed her readers: with a combinat...