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Monthly Archives: April 2016

More of the Moor

April 19, 2016 Comments Off on More of the Moor

The Q Brothers’ Othello: the Remix – Chicago Shakespeare Theatre

 

One of the many highlights of CST’s Shakespeare 400 Chicago celebration is this remount of the company’s wildly

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The Progressive Republican

April 18, 2016 Comments Off on The Progressive Republican

Carlyle – Goodman Theatre

 

As the election draws near and the Republican party seems poised to implode upon itself, Thomas Bradshaw has

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Hard to Say Goodbye

April 18, 2016 Comments Off on Hard to Say Goodbye

Dreamgirls – Porchlight Music Theatre

 

Porchlight Music Theatre’s highly anticipated staging of 1982’s multi-Tony Award-winning musical is loosely based on

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Rocket Pussy Rides Again

April 15, 2016 Comments Off on Rocket Pussy Rides Again

Trash – New American Folk Theatre

 

The Midwest premiere of prolific, gay playwright Johnny Drago’s appropriately titled play is a mixed bag. Bygone fame

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How Do You Measure a Life?

April 15, 2016 Comments Off on How Do You Measure a Life?

Mary Page Marlowe – Goodman Theatre

 

A young mother sits in the booth of a restaurant. The conversation she’s about to have isn’t easy or new. She’s about to

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Grief is a Guest Who Stays Too Long

April 13, 2016 Comments Off on Grief is a Guest Who Stays Too Long

The Women of Lockerbie – AstonRep Theatre Company

 

On December 21, 1988 high over the skies of Lockerbie, Scotland, a terrorist’s bomb exploded bringing down Pan Am

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Where the Mundane Becomes Miraculous

April 12, 2016 Comments Off on Where the Mundane Becomes Miraculous

The Adding Machine – The Hypocrites

 

The humdrum, day-to-day existence of a man who’s spent 25 years doing the same, boring job, lovelessly married to

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A Child’s Guide to Civil Rights

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Jabari Dreams of Freedom – Chicago Children’s Theatre

 

Listening to the evening news can be more frightening for a child than reading any of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps novels.

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An Absolute Doozie of a Cast

April 7, 2016 Comments Off on An Absolute Doozie of a Cast

Hazel – Drury Lane Theatre

 

Back in the early 1960’s, a no-nonsense, take-charge live-in maid named Hazel Burke burst into American homes

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