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“Spring Awakening” with Blank Theatre Company
Spring Awakening – Blank Theatre Company
Blank Theatre has opened their inaugural season with the musical “Spring Awakening.” This complex musical, originally performed on Broadway in 2006, is based on the equally, if not more, controversial 1891 play by Frank Wedekind. This reiterates the fact that society has been plagued by convoluted opinions about sex since the dawn of time and will most likely continue until our demise.
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Which Six People?
Six Degrees of Separation – Red Twist Theatre
Red Twist Theatre is one of my favorites in the city. Every so often it strikes me how lucky I am that next to my local coffee shop is a world-class theater. Tucked in a storefront in Edgewater, the entire theater is about the size of a modest one-bedroom apartment. The result is that the audience and the show occupy the same, small space. The first show I saw there a few years ago was their production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and I spent the play’s three hours as much in George and Martha’s living room as their actual guests.* The same sense of intimacy pervades their new production of Six Degrees of Separation, John Guare’s play, based on the almost unbelievable true story about a charismatic young man who charms his way into a wealthy Manhattan couple’s home pretending to be the son of Sidney Poitier.
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Omigod You Guys!
Legally Blonde – Paramount Theatre
Paramount Theatre’s Autumn offering is a funny, creatively produced, scrumptious, hyper-caffeinated musical draped in pink and
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Love is Love
Homos, or Everyone in America – Pride Films & Plays
Opening Pride Films & Plays’ second full season, nestled in their intimate, North Broadway venue, is New York playwright Jordan Seavey’s
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A Sesame Street for Adults
Avenue Q – Mercury Theatre
Calling this 2004 Tony Award winner for Best Musical, Book and Score edgy is like saying that pornography is spicy. But it’s so much more
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Never Forget
A Shayna Maidel – Timeline Theatre
Barbara Lebow’s wrenching and uplifting drama about two sisters, reunited after years of separation, tells just one of the many stories
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Hopscotching Through the Years
Vietgone – Writers Theatre
A huge success last year as part of Writers Theatre’s new play reading series, Qui Nguyen’s autobiographical, two-act comic drama opens
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Black Humor and Genuine Chills
Nightmares and Nightcaps: The Stories of John Collier – Black Button Eyes Productions-
British-born author John Collier, best-known for his highly polished, but bitterly flippant fantasies, was regularly featured in The New Yorker, from the 1930’s through the 1950’s. His dark style might even be viewed as a precursor to contemporary authors Neil Gaiman, Roald Dahl or even Ray Bradbury. Collier’s sophisticated, edgy stories and novels, filled with poetic descriptions, sharp, caustic wit, frightening characters and bizarre plot twists, have been anthologized here in theatrical form.
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You’re the Top
Anything Goes – Music Theatre Works
Can there be a better way to escape from the Chicago heat than with a bright, bubbly, laughed-filled, carefree Broadway
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Decimated by Global Warming
Treefall – Exit 63 Theatre
When the audience enters the intimate theatre space on W. Cortland, they may be surprised to discover three young boys
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