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You Gotta Have a Gimmick

August 22, 2017 Comments Off on You Gotta Have a Gimmick

 

Gypsy – Music Theatre Works 

 

Ever since Arthur Laurents, Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim teamed up back in 1959 to create

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Power Bombs, Super Kicks and Body Slams

August 20, 2017 Comments Off on Power Bombs, Super Kicks and Body Slams

The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity – Red Theatre Chicago 

 

Eight years ago, Victory Gardens introduced this comic drama by Kristoffer Diaz to Chicago

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Searching For Identity

August 17, 2017 Comments Off on Searching For Identity

Trevor, the Musical – Writers Theatre 

 

A new musical, which may even be Broadway bound, has opened in Glencoe. It’s significant for

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A Living Hell

August 15, 2017 Comments Off on A Living Hell

Machinal – Greenhouse Theatre 

 

Trapped in the machine of contemporary American life, a Young Woman finds her life to be a living

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A Perverse Victorian Delight

August 14, 2017 Comments Off on A Perverse Victorian Delight

Shockheaded Peter – Black Button Eyes Production

 

In 1997 a bizarre, original 65-minute musical entertainment first found its light in Jolly old England.

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An Exuberantly Defiant Summer of Love

August 4, 2017 Comments Off on An Exuberantly Defiant Summer of Love

Hair – Mercury Theatre 

 

Wow! Has it been 50 years since that first summer of love? Well, once again the moon’s in the seventh

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A Reality Show and Tell

August 1, 2017 Comments Off on A Reality Show and Tell

Last Dancer Standing (More Than Hip Hop) – Black Ensemble 

 

Ten of the finest, most talented, accomplished dancers in the nation are competing on a televised

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Overcoming Her Blind Spot

July 31, 2017 Comments Off on Overcoming Her Blind Spot

In the Wake – The Comrades 

 

In 2010, three years before her Tony Award-winning musical adaptation of Alison Bechdel’s graphic

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The Herstory of the Riot Grrrls

July 29, 2017 Comments Off on The Herstory of the Riot Grrrls

Brave Like Them – Anout Face Theatre

 

Bikini Kill. Bratmobile. Sleater-Kinney. Heavens to Betsy. Excuse 17. Skinned Teen. If you’ve never

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A Gershwin-ner of a Show

July 28, 2017 Comments Off on A Gershwin-ner of a Show

An American in Paris – Broadway in Chicago 

 

Two years ago this highly-anticipated stage version of the 1951 Gene Kelly/Leslie Caron musical film

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