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A Contemporary Period Thriller

October 25, 2016 Comments Off on A Contemporary Period Thriller

Resolution – Pride Films and Plays

 

It’s the holidays in the Big Apple. The year is 1892. Hannah and Jack are a loving, generously affluent couple,

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Madness Versus Sanity

October 24, 2016 Comments Off on Madness Versus Sanity

Pirandello’s Henry IV – Remy Bumppo

 

Who’s to say where sanity ends and madness begins? Written in 1921 by Nobel Prize winning playwright and autho

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Not Quite a Monster of a Show

October 24, 2016 Comments Off on Not Quite a Monster of a Show

Young Frankenstein – Lake Forest Theatre

 

Thanks to a burning dream and a lot of hard work by managing artistic director Steve Malone, Lake Forest now has a

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Memories and Mysteries

October 22, 2016 Comments Off on Memories and Mysteries

A Life Extra Ordinary – Gift Theatre

 

A lovely young woman named Annabel reminisces about her short life, traveling back and forth, between early

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In the Room Where It Happens

October 20, 2016 Comments Off on In the Room Where It Happens

Hamilton: An American Musical – Broadway in Chicago

 

Can there be anyone anywhere who hasn’t at least heard of this Broadway phenomenon? Getting tickets and actually

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Kate, the Queen Maker

October 18, 2016 Comments Off on Kate, the Queen Maker

The Last Wife – Timeline Theatre

 

With this current volatile, mudslinging political campaign thankfully winding down to its conclusion, among the issues

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Even the Walls Have Ears

October 18, 2016 Comments Off on Even the Walls Have Ears

The Room – A Red Orchid Theatre

 

As the play opens, Rose is working diligently cooking a hot evening meal of rashers and eggs for Bert, who quietly sits

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The Story of Helen Keller & Anne Sullivan

October 16, 2016 Comments Off on The Story of Helen Keller & Anne Sullivan

A Light in the Dark – Chicago Childrens Theatre

 

Most adults are familiar with the story of these two heroic women, whose lives forever light up the darkness. The

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Fine Feathered Fiends

October 15, 2016 Comments Off on Fine Feathered Fiends

The Birds – Citadel Theatre

 

Neither Alfred Hitchcock’s cinematic masterpiece of horror, nor the short story by Daphne du Maurier, playwright

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Church and Sexuality /Souls Bared

October 14, 2016 Comments Off on Church and Sexuality /Souls Bared

Bare: A Pop Opera – Refuge Theater Project at Epworth United Methodist Church

In the current rendition of this 2000 musical by Damon Instrabartolo and Jon Hartmere, its all about the found

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