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Gypsy – Porchlight Music Theatre
Ever since Arthur Laurents, Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim teamed up back in 1959 to create this “Musical Fable” that would forever
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Les Innocents/The Innocents – (Re)Discover Theatre
Ironically, the dozen or so audience members climb the stairs or take the rickety elevator up to the fourth floor of a building, only to
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Harry Truman and the Birth of Israel – Forum Productions and the Greenhouse Theater Center
In this world premiere, written by playwright, William Spatz (aka David Cohen), who’s an avid student of history, a Chicago
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Frankenstein – Remy Bumppo Theatre
In this, the second recent Chicago production of a theatrical adaptation of Mary Shelley’s famous novel, we have a gorgeously
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Zurich – Steep Theatre
Five short stories play out in a sleek, sterile-looking hotel room on the 40th floor of a Swiss hotel. Like most contemporary
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WaistWatchers the Musical – Royal George Theatre
WaistWatchers is about a group of friends at a women’s gym, all of whom are trying to navigate their complicated lives while
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Pippin – Mercury Theatre
There is a quiet moment near the beginning of Stephen Schwartz’s loosely-based historical musical during which Charlemagne
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The Little Foxes – Citadel Theatre
The Hubbards are a coldblooded, money-hungry, aristocratic clan who live near each other in a small, Southern town at the
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Flyin’ West – American Blues Theatre
The Homestead Act of the mid-1800’s offered thousands of African Americans a glimmer of hope, following the aftermath of
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Witch – Writers Theatre
The townspeople are all convinced that Elizabeth Sawyer is a witch. She’s become the scapegoat for every bad thing that
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