Articles filed under Theater
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Songs flow from 'The Medium at Large' creatorsOct 15, 2008 11:00 pm - Author Julia Cameron has spent her career helping others recover lost or forgotten creative powers. This is the topic of her best-selling book, "The Artist's Way" - and ...
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Kids Company to present 'Little Red'Oct 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Chicago Kids Company traveled over the river and through the woods to wind up at the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre where it presents its family-friendly, musical ver...
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New World Rep stages a 'Midsummer' for all seasonsOct 14, 2008 11:00 pm - A puzzled look crossed my editor's face when I told her that "A Midsummer Night's Dream" would be this week's featured review. Like me, she found it odd that New World R...
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Catch 'Million Dollar Quartet' while you canOct 08, 2008 11:00 pm - The cast of "Million Dollar Quartet" will have to hold off packing their bags for Broadway. For now. Any plans Chicago-based Dee Gee Theatricals and John Cossette Produ...
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'Century' turns on flimsy narrativeOct 08, 2008 11:00 pm - "Turn of the Century" wants to go to Broadway. And it has a pedigree that all but guarantees it will get there. There's the score comprised of 20th-century standards an...
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On stageOct 08, 2008 11:00 pm - 'Midsummer' at NWRT Like she did with last season's "Hamlet Remix'd," director Jean Gottlieb puts a contemporary spin on Shakespeare's romantic romp "A Midsummer Night's...
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First Folio's disjointed 'Dracula' can't decide how to play itOct 07, 2008 11:00 pm - "The Passion of Dracula" incorporates a little bit of everything and not enough of one thing, which is a roundabout way of saying that Bob Hall and David Richmond's play...
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From Madame Morrible to 'Mame'Oct 07, 2008 11:00 pm - Barbara Robertson, one of the mainstays of the Chicago theater scene, is going to play one of the great female roles in American music theater: the unstoppable auntie in...
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A contemporary 'Midsummer' at NWRTOct 06, 2008 11:00 pm - Like she did with last season's "Hamlet Remix'd," director Jean Gottlieb puts a contemporary spin on Shakespeare's romantic romp, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at New Worl...
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Cartoonish 'All Shook Up' sanitizes the sex, swagger of rock 'n' rollOct 06, 2008 11:00 pm - Marriott Theatre's "All Shook Up" almost has it all. The entire cast is energetic and super-talented, Marc Robin's choreography and direction is peppy, and the productio...