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Best of Chicago's fringe theater scene in 2011
This time of year we’re inundated with reminders to shop local, but there’s never a bad time to check out smaller local theater companies who specialize in innovation, guts, and sometimes just sheer blissful goofiness. These artists mostly...Tags: Peter Handke, Arts and Culture, Times Square, Entertainment, Music
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Two for the show
The family that works on plays together, stays together. OK, so that's not exactly the old adage. But it might become a new one if the husband-and-wife acting team of Jason Odell Williams and Charlotte Cohn continue on the same artistic road they've been...Tags: New York, Neil LaBute, Drama (genre), Social Issues, Tennessee Williams
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Rep Stage's 'Or' looks at barrier-breaking Sixties — 1660s, that is
When the reign of Oliver Cromwell and his fellow killjoys ended, one of the first things the new English king did was order the theaters to reopen.
Charles II didn't stop there. He allowed those theaters to do something previously unthinkable —...Tags: Opera (genre), Syracuse, University of Virginia, Celebrities, Baz Luhrmann
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'Or,' tells playwright's tale of intrigue; more fizzle than 'Sizzle'
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***1/2Traveler, lover, playwright, spy — Aphra Behn’s improbable careers could have filled a few John Le Carre novels. The 17th century author of “The Rover” is cited most often as the first woman who earned her living...Tags: Flatiron, Conservation, Politics, Weather, Arts and Culture
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Rep Stage season looks at complex personalities, issues
The races and the sexes will get an intense look during Rep Stage's 2011-2012 season, the company's 19th.
Michael Stebbins, producing artistic director of the Equity theater in residence at Howard Community College, will guide the season-opening...Tags: South Carolina, Trumbo (movie), Christopher Plummer, September 11, 2001 Attacks, John Barrymore
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Theater review: 'Celadine' at the Colony Theatre
Culture MonsterValentine’s Day may have passed, but the charms of Larry Cedar must be sung. The tall, acerbic actor, known for his delicious turns in Reprise’s “She Loves Me” and HBO’s “Deadwood,” is the reason to see “Celadine,” Charles Evered’s...
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