Articles filed under Theater
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Adaptation a collaborative processOct 25, 2007 11:00 pm - Chicago-based Lifeline Theatre has never met a kind of novel they can't adapt to the stage. Classic and modern, high-brow and comic, detective, mystery, young adult and ...
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'Weapon' has little impact after explosive openingOct 25, 2007 11:00 pm - "Weapon of Mass Impact," (the second in Brett Neveu's proposed trilogy examining the war on terrorism's impact on average Americans) certainly grabs your attention. The...
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Auditions and moreOct 25, 2007 11:00 pm - • LOOKS Salon of Naperville and Elite model management Agency is looking for models to represent the salon. Visit 43 E. Jefferson Ave., Naperville, or go to www.getthelo...
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'The Night of the Iguana' revival pays off for Raven TheatreOct 22, 2007 11:00 pm - Over the past few months, Miller, O'Neill, Odets and Williams have been well-served by Steppenwolf, Actors Workshop, The Hypocrites, Timeline and Shattered Globe, all of...
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Miller's original 'Bridge' gets solid revivalOct 18, 2007 11:00 pm - Actors Workshop Theatre could have followed tradition and staged the familiar, two-act version of "A View From the Bridge," Arthur Miller's lean, urban tragedy about des...
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More area theaterOct 18, 2007 11:00 pm - Young romance Drury Lane Theatre Oakbrook's season continues with "Meet Me in St. Louis," the stage version of the 1944 MGM musical about four sisters finding roman...
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'Twilight of the Golds' presents moral dilemmaOct 18, 2007 11:00 pm - It is a story ripped from today's headlines: A prenatal genetic test reveals something awful about an unborn child. What does the couple do? Play God and abort? Or do th...
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There's no place like home -- so stay awayOct 18, 2007 11:00 pm - The damaged O'Donnell siblings in Brian Friel's "Aristocrats" understand the often painful truth that while you can go home again, sometimes it's better if you don't. N...
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'Jersey Boys' brings the crowd to its feetOct 14, 2007 11:00 pm - There is no Sherry, no Dawn, no Marianne in "Jersey Boys." There are no big girls crying. "Jersey Boys" doesn't entirely conform to the jukebox formula, namely a score c...
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Critics notebookOct 11, 2007 11:00 pm - Here is a look at currently running plays recently reviewed by the Daily Herald. "Between Barack and a Hard Place," Second City Theatre, 1616 N. Wells St., Chicago. ...