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Another Shipload of Love
The Christmas Schooner – Mercury Theatre
Traditions, those legends, customs and beliefs handed down from generation to generation, provide the foundation for this beautifully written historical musical that has
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Mary Poppins – Paramount Arts Center
In 1934 P. L. Travers’ first literary success, which eventually spawned a series of sequels, soon became a favorite among both children and their parents. Thirty years later
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Shining City – Irish Theatre of Chicago
Three men and a young woman slowly come to understand that they’re each being haunted by their own private ghosts in Conor McPherson’s 2004 Tony nominated play.
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It’s a Wonderful Life: a Live Radio Play – Brightside Theatre
The name George Bailey has become synonymous with Christmas, ever since Frank Capra’s holiday classic first began airing nonstop on TV during the 1980’s. Based upon
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A Christmas Carol – Goodman Theatre
This show is it.
This is what Christmas is all about in Chicago. The Grandaddy of all holiday productions, and the show that every other
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Lookingglass Alice – Lookingglass Theatre
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll, is famous for authoring two children’s classics, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Dodgson was many things: a writer, a mathematician, a deacon in the Anglican Church, a
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Jet Black Chevrolet and We Three – Side Project
Or: Hammer Horror
I find is oddly fitting that the same haunted Lay-Z-Boy recliner should appear in both The Side Projects attempts at psychological horror in the
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From the Heart – Citadel Theatre
Short stories by great writers are timeless and, especially around the holidays, can provide a welcome change from the usual fare about Rudolph, Scrooge, George Bailey
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The Wizard of Oz – Marriott Theatre
Since this classic movie first delighted children and grownups on the silver screen back in 1939, L. Frank Baum’s glorious fantasy has been a
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Always…Patsy Cline – Theo Ubique
To paraphrase Jane Austen, it’s a truth universally acknowledged that any production directed by Fred Anzevino, the very talented Artistic
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