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Monthly Archives: May 2016

Don’t Feed the Plant

May 8, 2016 Comments Off on Don’t Feed the Plant

Little Shop of Horrors – American Blues Theatre

 

Welcome back, Audrey, Seymour, Mr. Mushnik, Orin and all the other crazy characters in this 1982 comic book

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Williams and Wilder and Albee and Miller, Oh My!

May 6, 2016 Comments Off on Williams and Wilder and Albee and Miller, Oh My!

Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf: A Parody – Writers Theatre

 

It’s been said that applause begets applause and laughter begets laughter. There not a more apt description of the

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Hooray for Hollywood

May 3, 2016 Comments Off on Hooray for Hollywood

Once in a Lifetime – Strawdog Theatre

 

Brilliantly talented American playwright Moss Hart began working with George S. Kaufman in 1929 writing this,

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A Tribute to Dionne Warwick

May 2, 2016 Comments Off on A Tribute to Dionne Warwick

Don’t Make Me Over – Black Ensemble Theatre

 

Jackie Taylor is Chicago’s undisputed master of the biographical musical revue. She knows how to weave the theatrical

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Something Wonderful

May 2, 2016 Comments Off on Something Wonderful

The King and I – Lyric Opera of Chicago

 

Throughout this bewitching musical classic, based upon Margaret Landon’s historically-based 1944 novel, Anna and

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