Timeline Theatre's "The General From America" sheds some light on one of the least known events from the American Revolution as we see how Benedict Arnold can make such an uncharacteristic decision to betray his country. This is first class theatre.
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The newly formed RiMeChi Theatre Company tackles the terse, physically and emotionally draining play "Orphans". This is a black comedy fable with heart as we see the three lost souls struggling like the Dead End Kids to survive. "Orphans" is wonderfully acted and is an emotionally wrenching piece.
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Leaving Iowa, playing at the Royal George Theatre, is a worthy nostalgic ode to the good-hearted, patriotic average American small town father bent on getting his daughter and son to enjoy the yearly road trip in their station wagon.
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The initial offering from the University of Chicago grads who founded The Broken Compass is based on the company’s mission statement: “most exciting art arises from a process of continual experimentation. No preconceptions or pre-formulations…”
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Red Jacket Theatre has a worthy show full of deliciously physical action. Andrew Perez is a playwright with a new voice and an absurdist leading that promises to offer plays with intensity.
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Eclipse Theatre continues its season of ‘one playwright-one season’ with Rebecca Gilman’s controversial show. Kudos to Eclipse Theatre for mounting this cautionary look into the unspoken cancer of white liberal racism. Let the debate begin.
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Kate Fodor delivers a gem with 100 Saints You Should Know at Steppenwolf Theatre. This is a powerful, moving work that will haunt you long after the show ends. It is a Highly Recommended piece of marvelous theatre.
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Cirque Du Soleil sure knows how to produce spectacular performance art event. This is a visually stunning show that will leave you impressed as you witness many of the finest artists in the world doing their specialties in amazing feats of heart-stopping skill. Corteo is a wonderful show that stretches circus into a theatrically engaging event.
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The Theatre At the Center's latest show is pure Chicago, pure 1950’s Catholic school, and pure heartwarming crowd pleaser. This is a true classic Chicago style musical with a classic boy meets girl, boys falls in love, boy loses girl, boys wins girl back story. Realism and comedy are nicely presented without offending anyone in this surprisingly strong Broadway musical.
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Bruce Norris and Steppenwolf Theatre in collaboration with director Anna D. Shapiro have produced another terrific and quirky play that is full of biting humor and dazzling characters in a provocative story that reveals the contradictions inherent in human response to a crisis.
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The Artistic Home mounts another terrific ensemble piece with Romulus Linney’s Unchanging Love that is his American take on Chekhov’s “In the Hollow.” This is a compelling family saga where greed, cruelty and compassion clash with compassion and innocence.
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The Goodman Theatre's "The Dreams of Sarah Breedlove" contains telling speeches that paint an emotional view of the struggles of Black women in the early 20th Century. This show is wonderful storytelling.
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Trap Door Theatre specializes in avant guarde, experimental and obscure European plays that are an acquired taste. Their latest, "Request Programme", is unique theatre, so different, yet so psychological, that it speaks for the multitudes of lonely, lost souls. Less is, indeed, more.
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The Water Coolers: An Office Musical at the Lakeshore Theater is a humorous, light-weight show filled with slickly polished scenes and tuneful songs that satirizes the trials, tribulations and joys of office work. Political correctness and obsession with Palm Pilots are highlighted but no cheap shots are taken in this family friendly show.
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Movin’ Out is a feast for Billy Joel fans as well as for dance show enthusiasts. It isn’t a musical, it’s a jukebox danscial or a 21st Century ballet. Whatever you might call it, Movin’ Out is a breathtakingly exhilarating show with toe-tapping tunes and slick dynamic dancing. This show is fun.
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