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Review | The Wickhams: a holiday treat

The Jungle Theater, through December 30
by Kay Vandette • December 5, 2018 • 0 Comments

If you’re looking for the perfect gift for the Jane Austen fan in your life – and there are many – a night at the theater to see The Jungle Theater‘s production of The Wickhams is just the ticket. The Wickhams…

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Review | Dr. Suess’s How The Grinch Stole Christmas: green holiday fun

Children’s Theatre Company, through Jan 6
by John Olive • November 11, 2018 • 0 Comments

Ready or not, the 2018 Christmas season has started. How do I know this? It’s because of the discombobulating rush of holiday shows: the big G begins (on Nov 13) its kazillionth production of A Christmas Carol; there’s the myriad…

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Review | The Book Of Mormon: singin’ and dancin’ racism

The Orpheum, through Nov 18
by Mari Wittenbreer • November 8, 2018 • 0 Comments

The Book Of Mormon is an energy packed and very funny show now playing at the downtown Orpheum Theatre until November 18th. Its pacing is tireless, starting at the opening song “Hello” when we meet Elder Price, (Kevin Clay) a…

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Review | The Clean House: clean, but not clean-cut

Theatre Unbound, performing at the Gremlin, thru Nov 18
by Bronwen Chan • November 7, 2018 • 1 Comment

Theatre Unbound’s production of Sarah Ruhl’s The Clean House (Theatre Unbound,performing at the Gremlin Theater until November 18) is only one of at least ten productions of this play in the country over the next four months. Some reasons why…

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Review | The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later

by Kay Vandette • November 7, 2018 • 0 Comments

When 21-year-old Mathew Shepard was brutally murdered in Laramie, Wyoming, the victim of an unspeakable hate crime, it shocked the nation and left Laramie unraveled in the midst of a media maelstrom. Forced to both pick up the pieces of…

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Noises Off at the Guthrie Theater

Nonstop laughing!
by Janet Preus • November 4, 2018 • 0 Comments

Are you ‘bout ready for a good laugh? How about a couple hours of nonstop laughing? That’s what the Guthrie Theater delivers with Noises Off, by Michael Frayn, a classic modern farce (and there sure aren’t many of those!) If…

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Review | The Tempest: spare and wondrous

By Theatre Coup d’Etat at Springhill Ministry through November 17
by Janet Preus • October 28, 2018 • 0 Comments

Theatre Coup d’Etat heads into Halloween with spirits and spells in an absorbing and taut production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. We sit in a square, empty room. Chairs in a circle – one row only. A few dramatic lights. Sound…

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Review | Scapin: a servant of no masters

Ten Thousand Things, through Nov 4
by Mari Wittenbreer • October 15, 2018 • 0 Comments

A director friend of mine once said, “A little stupid is funny; a lot of stupid is just stupid.” The Ten Thousand Things staging of Scapin is just the right amount of stupid and it is very funny. (Ten Thousand Things…

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Review | I Come From Arizona: beautifully bilingual

Childrens Theatre Company, through November 25
by Bronwen Chan • October 14, 2018 • 0 Comments

What does “Global Perspectives” mean, anyway? Carlos Murillo’s I Come from Arizona (CTC) offers a few suggestions. In this bilingual play, 14-year old Mexican-American Gabi Castillo (Ayssette Muñoz), who, living on the South Side of Chicago, moves to the elite…

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