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Monthly Archives: February 2016

Everybody Loves a Winner

February 11, 2016 Comments Off on Everybody Loves a Winner

Cabaret – Broadway in Chicago

 

New York’s Roundabout Theatre is celebrating 50 years of top quality theatrical entertainment with this polished,

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Vinyl, Mixed Tapes and Love

February 10, 2016 Comments Off on Vinyl, Mixed Tapes and Love

High Fidelity – Refuge Theatre Project

 

Rob Gordon is a pleasant, but aimless young man in his mid-thirties, floating along through his everyday existence

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Treading Water in the Steno Pool

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London Wall – Griffin Theatre

How is it that John Van Druten’s 1931 office comedy never became a big hit? This smart, subtly sexy play, by the

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He’s Got No Strings!

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Pinocchio – Filament Theatre

 

Although there have been many versions and incarnations of Carlo Collodi’s 1883 children’s novel, The Adventures of Pinocchio, probably the most familiar is the groundbreaking 1940 animated version by the Walt Disney Studios. Because of this full-length cartoon, everyone remembers the story. They know about the lonely woodcarver named Geppetto who creates a little wooden puppet who eventually becomes a real boy. Audiences remember Jiminy Cricket, the cunning Fox and Cat, the evil puppeteer Stromboli, Lampwick, Pleasure Island and Monstro the whale. And, of course, they remember the beautiful Blue Fairy and how “When You Wish Upon a Star” made everything end happily ever after.

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The Sound of Silence

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Snowflake – Chicago Childrens Theatre

 

No one would ever know from watching Gale LaJoye perform his one-man theatrical piece, that this hardworking,

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Revenge, Repentance and Reconciliation

February 1, 2016 Comments Off on Revenge, Repentance and Reconciliation

 

Mothers and Sons – Northlight

 

Twenty years ago Katharine Gerard lost her son Andre to the complications brought on by the AIDS virus. The young

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