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Collaboraction plays hero to a local playwright, and more shows opening this week
Coming soon
"Dirty Dancing--The Classic Story on Stage" opens Sept. 28
Carpenters' Halloween
The campy musical tribute returns to Mary's Attic in October
Sing D@mm^t!
This energetic sketch show breathes new life into the old song-and-dance formula
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MORE Theater FEATURES
- On stage
- See what's new to Chicago stages for the week of Aug. 27
- Heroes and Villains
- The latest from Collaboraction artistic director Anthony Moseley and local playwright Daniel Janoff
- Comedy central
- Need a good laugh? Try one of these funny shows
- Wicked
- The Tony Award-winning musical's Chicago run continues with Dee Roscioli (Elphaba) and Erin Mackey (Glinda)
- Jersey Boys
- The Tony Award-winning musical continues at the Bank of America Theatre
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CRITICS' REVIEWS
Route 66 debuts with 'Average Day'
By Chris Jones
The Route 66 Theatre Company made an auspicious, hopeful debut this weekend.This new Equity troupe seems to have its act together—starting with its name. Using the Mother Road as guiding...
Steppenwolf First Look trifecta takes on love, fear and the workplace
By Chris Jones
Can writers own their own influence? Can a liar lie to a lie detector? And can a pair of emotionally damaged research-geeks find mutual, middle-age love in the sanitized Indiana halls of Eli Lilly...
'Plaza Suite' makes for a dark room
By Chris Jones
Neil Simon's "Plaza Suite" is a comedy of marital despair. I swear it would never get written and produced today. Not with the Boomers in charge.In its day, of course, this 1968 play was a huge...
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MORE Theater NEWS
- Let's get prehistoric: Dinosaurs to roam UC
- Back in 1999, Brits from 4 to 104 were rendered immobile on their U.K. couches by, of all things, a series of television documentaries about paleontology. Fish-and-chip shops were empty. Pints went...
- Second City as First Improv Troupe?
- If Barack Obama wins the presidency, Second City might well find itself the quasi-official White House comedy troupe. The Obama campaign and the Obamas themselves have been enamored of the...
- Political pratfalls in St. Charles
- Pratfall of Civilization: Sometimes it seems that the handbasket to hell is standing room only. A Second City touring company is putting down roots in St. Charles in August, just in time for the...
- Goodman Latino Theatre Festival: Put a serious dose of Latin in your summer
- A biennial summer tradition, the Goodman's Latino Theatre Festival (Aug. 8-24 in the Goodman's Owen and Albert Theatres, 170 N. Dearborn St.) is a surefire way to liven up the dog days of August....
- 'Syracuse' is another in Bard parade
- The Boys From Syracuse: Silliness reigns supreme in Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors," which perhaps explains why it's so irresistible to other theater artists as source material. Just this past...
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Fake Lake
Welles Park - 2333 W. Sunnyside Ave. - Lincoln Square
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Bailiwick Arts Center - 1229 W. Belmont Ave. - Lakeview
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Dyke Mic
Big Chicks - 5024 N. Sheridan Rd. - Uptown
Carpenters' Halloween
Coming soon: The return of campy musical tribute to the 1978 John Carpenter slasher film, "Halloween"
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