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Cooperstown

The Greenhouse Theater Center
2257 N Lincoln Avenue Chicago

It’s the summer of 1962, and Jackie Robinson is about to be the first black inducted to the Baseball Hall of Fame. That doesn’t mean much to Junior Murphy, a black restaurant manager who can’t get a promotion, and whose little sister has her own history-making plans for the big weekend. When a Midwest minor-leaguer comes to town chasing his idol, the collision of race, love and baseball turns a sleepy New York town upside down.

Presented by Theatre Seven of Chicago

Thru - Dec 20, 2009

Fri, Nov 20: 8:00pm
Sat, Nov 21: 8:00pm
Sun, Nov 22: 3:00pm
Thu, Nov 26: 8:00pm
Fri, Nov 27: 8:00pm
Sat, Nov 28: 8:00pm
Sun, Nov 29: 3:00pm
Thu, Dec 3: 8:00pm
Fri, Dec 4: 8:00pm
Sat, Dec 5: 8:00pm
Sun, Dec 6: 3:00pm
Thu, Dec 10: 8:00pm
Fri, Dec 11: 8:00pm
Sat, Dec 12: 8:00pm
Sun, Dec 13: 3:00pm
Thu, Dec 17: 8:00pm
Fri, Dec 18: 8:00pm
Sat, Dec 19: 8:00pm
Sun, Dec 20: 3:00pm


Price:$14-$18

Show Type: Drama

Box Office: 773-404-7336

Running Time: hr 35mins; no intermission

www.greenhousetheater.org


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  Review Round-Up

Chicago Theater Blog - Somewhat Recommended

"...Far believable is the sweet romance between waitress and baseball stat savant Dylan (Tracey Kaplan, sometimes truly difficult to understand thanks to her machine-gun speed speech) and Huck (Chance Bone), a plain-spoken out-of-towner with a similar passion for America’s Pastime. It’s a lovely subplot, although it wouldn’t hurt to tone down Dylan’s tomboy streak a tad – when she becomes almost physically ill after kissing Huck, she seems more like a prepubescent girl than a young woman."
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Catey Sullivan


ChicagoCritic - Recommended

"...The characters are believable, the plot is hardly new or revolutionary, but there is an honesty from key characters–Burrough’s Junior and Bone’s Huck that gives Cooperstown an empathetic truth that resonates with us. Cooperstown nicely deals with the trickle-down effect of a changing time. This play foreshadows our grappling with race issues as well as the major changes in Major League baseball that finds the Dodgers in LA and the Giants in San Francisco. Golden has a unique way of storytelling."

Tom Williams


   This show has been Jeff Recommended*

*The designation of "Jeff Recommended" is given to a production when at least ONE ELEMENT of the show was deemed outstanding by the opening night judges of The Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee. The entire production is then eligible for nomination for awards at the end of the season.
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