Articles filed under Theater
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Droll 'Augusta' scrutinizesFeb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - Talk about being nickel and dimed. Writer Barbara Ehrenreich, who spent a year waiting tables, cleaning houses and ringing up purchases at a big box store researching he...
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Revival can't fix dogmatic mystery-thrillerFeb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - J.B. Priestly doesn't do his play "An Inspector Calls" any favors by having one of his characters reference George Bernard Shaw. As social criticism, Priestly's mystery-...
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Chicago theater veteran to head to MetropolisFeb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - Matt O'Brien is no stranger to the Chicago theater scene. Many theater fans will remember him as the founder and director of the Irish Repertory Theater of Chicago. In i...
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AuditionsFeb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - • GreenMan Theatre Troupe has auditions for Steve Martin's comedy adaptation of Carl Sternheim's "The Underpants" at 1 p.m. March 2 and at 7 p.m. March 3 and 5 at the El...
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'Harriet Jacobs' holds candle to sadness of slaveryFeb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - In the 1830s, a young slave woman named Harriet Jacobs drilled a hole in the wall of the tiny attic where she lived in hiding from a hateful slave owner. The hole let ...
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'Big Blue Nail' lacks focusFeb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - One of my colleagues insists good writing has as much to do with what a writer leaves out of a story as what he or she includes. He's right. Paring down the narrative, ...
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Incomplete mystery gets fast-paced conclusion at Noble FoolFeb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - A rollicking good time is to be had with Noble Fool Theatricals' "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" (or "Drood" for short). That is, if you're willing to follow along with the...
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Production yanked by GoodmanFeb 11, 2008 10:00 pm - Artistic differences have prompted the Goodman Theatre to pull "The Boys Are Coming Home," by Leslie Arden (music and lyrics) and Rebecca Gilman (book) from its summer s...
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A strong-willed princess puts oomph in 'Triumph'Feb 11, 2008 10:00 pm - Parents who don't buy into the "damsel-in-distress" heroines of the Disney Princesses marketing machine might consider steering their kids to the princess of Pierre Mari...
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A lush 'Garden' in full bloomFeb 09, 2008 10:00 pm - It would be easy to attribute the onstage chemistry between Carmen Roman and James Leaming, stars of Todd Logan's "Botanic Garden," to their offstage relationship. Easy...