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Passing the Time While Nothing Happens

May 26, 2018 Comments Off on Passing the Time While Nothing Happens

Waiting for Godot – Chicago Shakespeare World Theatre

 

When the audience enters the Courtyard Theater auditorium, they find the heavily raked stage has been shortened, a few new rows of

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A Bundle of Joy

May 19, 2018 Comments Off on A Bundle of Joy

Cry It Out – Northlight Theatre

 

Molly Smith Metzler, a mother herself, wrote this cathartic, somewhat autobiographical play based on her own personal

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Horror in the Heartland

May 19, 2018 Comments Off on Horror in the Heartland

Buried Child – Writers Theatre

 

The rain falls steadily, nonstop, relentlessly on the gray roof of an old, dilapidated house on a failed plot of farmland in

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Sugar and Spice

May 16, 2018 Comments Off on Sugar and Spice

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years -Goodman Theatre

 

The Delany sisters, two charming, lovable African American spinster ladies (who preferred being called “colored” or “Negro”),

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Conch’a Hear It?

May 16, 2018 Comments Off on Conch’a Hear It?

Flies! The Musical – Pride Films and Plays

 

Only a pair of twisted, yet very creative minds could’ve conceived of a musical version of William Golding’s young adult

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On My Own

May 15, 2018 Comments Off on On My Own

A New Attitude: In Tribute to Patti LaBelle – Black Ensemble Theatre

 

Continuing with a second exciting offering in their 2018 season, entitled “Movers and Shakers,” Black Ensemble Theater, that

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Everything in the Garden

May 15, 2018 Comments Off on Everything in the Garden

Suddenly Last Summer – Raven Theatre

 

Raven Theatre continues their homage to Tennessee Williams and his writing with a sterling production of one of the

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Oh Boy!

May 14, 2018 Comments Off on Oh Boy!

Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story – American Blues Theatre 

 

When looking at the history of rock ’n’ roll music, one of the earliest pioneers of that distinctive

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Like a Prayer

May 12, 2018 Comments Off on Like a Prayer

Grace

Like a Prayer

Shocking the audience by opening his play with three murders and a suicide, and then reversing the events like a tape being rewound, Craig Wright’s taut one-act is a mystery, of sorts.

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Someone’s in the Kitchen

May 7, 2018 Comments Off on Someone’s in the Kitchen

How to Use a Knife

Someone’s in the Kitchen

Ensemble acting, passionate storytelling and visceral theatrical experiences are all traits of this intimate storefront company that’s been doing great work for the past 27 seasons. In yet another noteworthy Chicago premiere, Shattered Globe Theatre introduces Windy City audiences to playwright Will Snider, with this daring, dashing new drama set in the prep kitchen of Wall Street restaurant. Amid the chaos of chopping, cooking, plating and delivering high end dinners to affluent customers, a tense situation unfolds.

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