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A Career-Defining Performance

January 22, 2018 Comments Off on A Career-Defining Performance

Boy – Timeline Theatre Company

 

The story may be told with simplicity, but the subject matter is involved, complicated and filled with pain and heartbreak. Based upon a real case, Anna Ziegler’s play about a young

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Rogues and Roleplaying in Pennsylvania

January 21, 2018 Comments Off on Rogues and Roleplaying in Pennsylvania

The Antelope Party – Theatre Wit

 

There are an infinite number of secret clubs and congregations around America. They appeal to just

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Camelot’s Queen Mother

January 19, 2018 Comments Off on Camelot’s Queen Mother

Rose – Greenhouse Theatre Center 

 

Talented, multi-Jeff Award-winning Chicago actress Linda Reiter earned her latest, well-deserved

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Watching a Slice of Life

January 18, 2018 Comments Off on Watching a Slice of Life

Five Mile Lake – Shattered Globe Theatre 

 

The small lake town near Scranton, Pennsylvania is the kind of place where young people grow up

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Up, Up and Away

January 16, 2018 Comments Off on Up, Up and Away

Montauciel Takes Flight – Lifeline Theatre

 

Early in the summer of 1783 two brothers performed an exciting experiment to prove to themselves, and the citizens of Annonay, France, that they had invented a means for flight.

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Whistleblowing in the Northern Suburbs

January 15, 2018 1 Comment

Traitor – A Red Orchid

 

In 1882 Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen wrote a scathing drama entitled “An Enemy of the People,” partially in response to the outrage over his previous play, “Ghosts.” That

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The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe

January 12, 2018 Comments Off on The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe

Nevermore – Black Button Eyes Production

If a theatergoer thinks his life is disappointing or less than ideal, he needs to visit the new production at the Edge Theater. Written and composed by Jonathan Christenson, this

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Where Your Devotion Lies

January 9, 2018 Comments Off on Where Your Devotion Lies

For the Loyal – Interrobang 

 

Mia is seven months pregnant when Toby, her young husband, college football coach-in-training,

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I Gotta Crow

December 24, 2017 Comments Off on I Gotta Crow

Peter Pan – Music Theatre Works

 

Many children will be looking up into the sky over the holidays, searching for a highflying sleigh pulled by eight tiny reindeer. But there’s another extraordinary

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You’ve Got a Friend

December 22, 2017 Comments Off on You’ve Got a Friend

BLKS – Steppenwolf Theatre 

 

Following an evening of sexual playtime with her “partner,” Ry, Octavia suddenly, unexpectedly

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