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A Quest to Regain Dignity
The Grapes of Wrath – Gift Theatre
There’s no other novel that paints such an honest, unflinching portrait of the hopelessness of a people, particularly
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Matrimony in Manhattan
Company – Writers Theatre
Updated to 2016 with cell phones, contemporary fashions and fewer characters smoking, this exciting new
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Savage in Limbo – The Poor Theatre
Imagine yourself at 32 years old.
Everyone in the audience who participates in the shared experience of Savage in Limbo will think this. Some who
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Super Sea Savior
The SpongeBob Musical – Broadway in Chicago
Big, bright, boisterous, colorful, creative and crammed full of humor and joy, this giddy, glorious family musical
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Lurking in the Foggy Shadows
The Unfortunates – SoLo Chicago
On a misty, cold November night, a 25-year-old British woman named Mary Jane Kelly slips into Whitechapel’s Ten
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An Evening of Moving Melodies
Make Me a Song – Eclectic Theatre Company
“Make Me a Song” is one of several revues or song suites by composer and lyricist William Finn. It features an array
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Feeling Good
An Anthony Newley & Leslie Bricusse Songbook – Theo Ubique
The 1960’s is generally acknowledged as the last decade of the Golden Age of Musical Theatre. During this period,
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A Satire of Horror
Bat Boy: The Musical – Griffin Theatre
Scott Weinstein’s magnificent, heart-pounding production of this 2001 Lucille Lortel Award-winning Off-Broadway
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All There in Black and White
Thaddeus and Slocum: A Vaudeville Adventure – Lookingglass Theatre
It’s 1908. Presidential candidate William Howard Taft defeated William Jennings Bryan, the Garfield Park
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Not Ready for Prime Time
TAPPED: a Treasonous Musical Comedy – Forth Story Productions
Molly Todd Madison writes in the program’s Director’s Notes that due to the turbulent climate of this year’s political
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