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| Adore |
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| Steppenwolf Theatre |
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Armin is a cannibal. It's a secret he's kept ever since he was a child -- to find another person that would never leave him. He never thought it would be possible, until Bernd stepped into his life. A willing victim was the only missing piece and now he has it.
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| Agamemnon |
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| Dream Theatre |
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Agamemnon is Chapter One of Jeremy Menekseoglu’s Agon Trilogy.
The Greeks have been triumphant in the Trojan War and are now returning home with the spoils. The great General Agamemnon sets his sights on Cassandra, the Trojan Princess cursed with the power to see the future but which no one ever believes. He finds her in the temple of Athena being molested by one of his soldiers. After rescuing her and having her tormentor executed, Agamemnon imprisons her on his boat, claiming to want only her gratitude. What follows is a harrowing story of betrayal, barbarity and banishment to the monkey house.
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| Beautiful City |
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| Storefront Theater |
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“This is the future” begins this darkly comic fable about urban developers, criminals, law enforcement, and even a witch, all fighting for the soul and vision of a city. Set in an urban landscape ripe for redevelopment, the parable blends off-kilter characters, fast-paced storytelling, and stinging social satire in a tale of greed, corruption, and civic responsibility. Theatre Mir’s production marks the Chicago professional premiere of this work by George F. Walker, one of Canada’s most prolific and celebrated playwrights.
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| The Bloody Fabulous Curse of Dragula |
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| Mary's Attic |
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A Castle... A Coffin... A Comic Tale of Death & Dentures. The Bloody Fabulous Curse of Dragula is an outrageous vampire parody of "Sunset Boulevard" and boasts a Jeff-awarding winning cast.
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| The Brother/Sister Plays |
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| Steppenwolf Theatre |
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On the banks of a steamy bayou, the tiny community of San Pere, Louisiana springs to life with stories of love, sexuality and coming-of-age. Influenced by lively Afro-Caribbean folklore, The Brother/Sister Plays explore the struggles that arise when the quest for self identity is at odds with community values.
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| The Crucible |
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| Raven Theatre |
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Set during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 and written in direct response to the McCarthy trials in the 1950s, this scathing indictment of censorship remains a timeless classic of American drama - a master study on the inherent frailty, delicate beauty and limitless possibility of the human spirit.
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| Dancing at Lughnasa |
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| Irish American Heritage Center |
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Dancing at Lughnasa is Brian Friel's joyous memory piece recounting the yearnings and sublimation of love by the five Mundy sisters. Living out a mundane existence in the rural village of Ballybeg in 1936, the family’s reputation is precariously balanced between the shame of the youngest sister’s illegitimate son, Michael, and their pride for the eldest brother, Father Jack.
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| The DNA Trail |
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| Chicago Temple |
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Theatre meets science as a diverse group of playwrights each agree to take a genealogical DNA test in this identity-defying collection of short plays. For this adventurous project, Silk Road commissioned seven playwrights, each rooted in distinct immigrant narratives and cross-cultural experiences, to revisit their assumptions about identity politics and the perennial "who am I" question. Self, family, community, ethnicity, race, history, geography--it's all up for grabs! Come see where the DNA Trail leads to.
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| 11:11 |
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| Victory Gardens Theater - Biograph |
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11:11 tells the story of the first day at Camp Methuselah Pines and the team of young Christian camp counselors who unknowingly drug themselves. As the evening unravels, secrets are shared, temptations explored, and a group of friends realize they don't have the same understanding of the same God. Inspired by the experiences of the playwrights and ensemble, '11:11' asks an age-old question of a new generation: why are we willing to fight for something we cannot see or define?
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| Epic Proportions |
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| Chemically Imbalanced Theater |
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Epic Proportions is a screw-ball comedy romp behind the scenes of a 1930’s motion picture. Join brothers Phil and Benny as they go to the Arizona desert to be extras in the huge Biblical epic Exeunt Omnes. Along the way, they encounter romance, danger, and a supporting cast of thousands played by 4 intrepid actors.
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| The Fantasticks |
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| City Lit Theater |
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The Fantasticks tells the familiar tale of a Boy, a Girl, Two Feuding Fathers, and the Wall between them. A timeless exploration of the bittersweet lessons taught by young love, the show is also renowned for its classic songs, including “Try to Remember” and “Soon It’s Gonna Rain.” The show’s minimalist and representational nature fits perfectly with PTE's commitment to using simplicity of design to inspire imagination and bring the audience into the world of the play.
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| Flames and Blazes: A Musical Comedy |
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| Annoyance Theatre |
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In 1928 at the most exclusive New Years Eve party in town, the “unburnable” Marriotropolis plays host to Chicago's elite. But when the unburnable begins to burn guests and servants alike are trapped on the 40th floor high above the relenting blaze. Blinded by their own self-interests, they convince themselves everything will be all right when everything has already gone horribly wrong. Flames and Blazes promises to entertain, teach you some handy survival tips and convince you that you had a better New Year's Eve than the poor folks at the Marriotropolis hotel.
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| The Ghosts of Treasure Island |
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| Adventure Stage Chicago |
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This rollicking new musical follows young cabin boy Jim Hawkins as he fights to survive while shipwrecked on a mysterious island. Accompanied by the singing shenanigans of a raucous band of pirate ghosts, Jim races to find notorious Captain Flint's fabled treasure before mutinous shipmates steal the fortune for themselves. Faced with danger at every turn, Jim persists on his quest armed with nothing but an old treasure map and an endless supply of courage. Sail the high seas with the crew of The Hispaniola in this rowdy adventure recommended for ages 8 and up.
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| The Gimmick |
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| Truman College- O'Rourke Theatre |
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Pulitzer nominee and Obie winner Dael Orlandersmith’s one-woman show about a young girl in Harlem for whom writing and literature provide an escape from a lifetime of poverty and abuse.
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| Glitter in the Gutter |
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| Annoyance Theatre |
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The plot unfolds in a crummy apartment with windows that look out into trash-filled alleys. Pepper LaRoo and Velveeta Fitzgerald are inseparable drag queen roommates that dream of hitting it big and leaving the frugal life behind. When things start looking up for one of them, their relationship is put to the test and the girls are forced to rethink their understanding of glamour and the importance of sisterhood.
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| Here Where It's Safe |
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| Stage Left Theatre |
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Zach and Abbie are an American couple desperate to have a child. Beena is a 19 year old Indian woman struggling to escape an abusive marriage and provide for her son. When financial concerns convince Abbie to hire a surrogate in India, the two women’s lives become tangled with surprising and dangerous consequences. Here Where it’s Safe is a new play by award-winning playwright and Stage Left ensemble member M.E.H. Lewis (Burying the Bones, Fellow Travellers) that asks what comes of the choices we make, and what happens when we run out of choices.
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| I Am A Camera |
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| Neo-Futurists |
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As a picture says a thousand words, this production tells a thousand stories and inspires a thousand ideas. Greg Allen taps his roots as a darkroom photographer with this inventive homage to the photo. A photography centered experiment with themes of vision, objectivity and identity, this physical history of photography and cinema uses active imagery to discuss how how we frame the world and ourselves.
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| Kink |
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| Annoyance Theatre |
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It's 2010 and sexual repression is alive and well in suburbia. Mom is a closet dominatrix and Dad is a closet cross-dresser. Their daughters Julie and Tammy are getting to that age where clothes may not be the only hang-ups in their closets. Homecoming is just around the corner: Julie's got a date, and Tammy's one-woman tour-de-force is sure to be the hit of the big night. But between Mom's secret dominatrix meeting and Dad's secret cross-dressing meeting, who will be there to take pictures?
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| A Love Lost Life- The Unauthorized Story of Marlon Brando |
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| Theatre Building Chicago |
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A Love Lost Life tells of the bonds and barriers between fathers and sons manifesting in Brando's own efforts to understand fatherhood. The 90-minute biopic reveals his feelings towards his father and his confusion about being a father to his own children. Brando's final years inspired the author's title and focus. And although Marlon Brando was a famously private man, what is indisputably known about him is that he changed the way actors act.
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| Lower Debt |
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| The Viaduct |
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Set in the uncertain economic climate at the beginning of the 21st century, “Lower Debt” tells the story of an everyman who leaves his white-collar existence, and ends up in a tent city among residents who are all looking for another way to live. This ensemble-based multimedia play explores the themes of community, ownership, loss and hope while asking the question, “How did we end up here?”
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| Medea with Child |
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| La Costa Theatre |
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This spring, Sideshow Theatre Company presents the Chicago premiere of Pulitzer Prize nominee Janet Burroway's Medea With Child. Unleashing Euripides' tragedy on a modern, magical, lyrically soaring stage of physical and verbal athletics, this wildly witty retelling blasts down to the core of the Greek classic Medea. When her husband strays from their marriage, Medea's fury unleashes a storm of epic proportions on both family and country. Can the characters escape the fate that awaits them? And what will be left if they can?
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| Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament |
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| Medieval Times Schaumburg Castle |
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Medieval Times is an exciting, family-friendly dinner attraction inspired by an 11th century feast and tournament. Guests are served a four-course banquet and cheer for one of six knights as they compete in the joust and other tests of skill. Expect lots of jousting, swordsmanship, thrilling hand-to-hand combat, and displays of extraordinary horsemanship as part of an exciting story set in Medieval Spain.
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| Million Dollar Quartet |
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| Apollo Theater |
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On December 4, 1956, an auspicious twist of fate brought together Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley. The place was Sun Records’ storefront studio in Memphis. The man who made it happen was the “Father of Rock-n-Roll,” Sam Phillips, who discovered them all. The four legends-to-be united for the only time in their careers for an impromptu recording session that embodied the birth of rock ‘n’ roll and has come to be known as one of the greatest rock jam sessions of all time.
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| Mimesophobia |
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| Chicago Dramatists |
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Mimesophobia dodges between Hollywood and Hyde Park to track one family’s private tragedy as it becomes absorbed by the public eye. While Cassy, the devastated daughter, reconstructs her murdered sister’s diary, two screenwriters desperately try to spin the tragedy into cinematic gold. Meanwhile, a deranged academic meditates on the American obsession with violence. In the middle of the dark and savagely funny collage lies the question: what compels us to open doors we know are better left unopened?
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| Mountain Brook High School |
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| Chemically Imbalanced Theater |
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A coming of age, first love, rebellion, conflict with parents, teen angst, and alienation comedy. With special guest improv group CounterProductive Lover. Mountain Brook High School resembles any other high school - it's filled with angst, cliques, misinformed passions. Except this high school is an improv show!
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| Mrs. Caliban |
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| Lifeline Theatre |
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Dorothy is locked in a lifeless marriage of empty domestic ritual until a fugitive Reptile-man from another world arrives on her doorstep. With him, she finds forbidden love and experiences a rebirth of her spirit, even as her grasp on reality falters. Travel with Dorothy through the fragile pathways of the human psyche as she dares to live - and love - unconventionally, in this remarkable story acclaimed as one of the greatest post-war American novels.
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| Orange Flower Water |
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| Chopin Theatre |
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After years of maintaining a close, platonic friendship, David and Beth begin an inescapable love-affair with heartbreaking consequences. Through a series of theatrical, voyeuristic scenes which all take place on or around a single bed, we see the painfully intense unraveling of both troubled marriages and, eventually, the construction of a very fragile but authentic new beginning for everyone concerned. Written by one of the most promising young playwrights of this generation, Craig Wright’s Orange Flower Water is an unsparing but ultimately hopeful examination of the unremitting need that humans beings have for one another.
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| Over The Tavern |
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It's 1959 in Buffalo, New York - Elvis, drive-ins, and The Honeymooners made life fun and simple. Not for the Pazinski household though! Polish-Catholics Chet and Ellen live above their tavern with their four teenagers, each questioning family values in their own mischievous ways. And when wise-cracking 12-year-old Rudy questions the Roman Catholic Church to ruler-cracking Sister Clarissa before his confirmation, the outcome is a hilarious yet touching comedy that would even make the Cleavers at a loss for good advice! Rating: PG, some mild adult language
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| Steppenwolf Theatre |
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A sonic mix-tape frames the story of two boys living a suburban 80’s adolescence within a world where everyone thinks, looks and talks the same. When Duck (Alexander Lane) and Mickey (Matt Farabee) discover fast, hot, angry punk rock, it’s like nothing they’ve ever heard. Punk, in all its righteous fury, becomes a foundation for the boys to create a self-defining belief system that revolutionizes their universe.
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| The Rant |
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| Angel Island Theater |
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The Rant is a gripping drama exploring racial bias and the perilous path to justice. When an African-American autistic boy is gunned down by police in the Bronx, an investigator sets out to expose the officer’s crime only to learn that the truth itself is a sort of bias. She must wade through prejudice, deceit, and a volley of anonymous threats to find where culpability and truth really lie.
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| Rent |
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Rent tells the story of the trials and tribulations faced by a close-knit group of friends living in New York City’s East Village. The characters struggle with the threat of homelessness, demons of drug addiction, questions of artistic integrity, and survival in the face of the AIDS epidemic.
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| The Ring Cycle |
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| The Building Stage |
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The Building Stage, noted for unique retellings and adaptations of various media to the stage will have their newest and largest endeavor to date: a non-operatic theatrical re-imagining of the famous Richard Wagner opera cycle, The Ring of the Niebelung, into an epic long-form theatrical piece.
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| Saints and Sinners |
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| Royal George Theatre |
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There's a new nun in town and Vicki Quade, creator of the hit show Late Nite Catechism, introduces us to Mother Superior in her new show, Saints & Sinners. Mother Superior's ruler is quick, her aim is spot-on, and she wants to know who in the audience is a saint and who are the sinners! Quade calls the show “a funny look at fundraising. Mother Superior is called by the archdiocese to St. Bruno's to help in their fundraising. The economy is tough, donations are down, and someone has to save the parish! Her clever idea: a calendar of famous saints and famous sinners.
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| Twelve Angry Men |
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| Raven Theatre |
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The stakes are high in this thrilling courtroom drama where a jury of twelve men are deciding the fate of a teenager accused of murdering his abusive father. When prejudices are tested and all the evidence is weighed this jury of peers must face the shocking truth. Raven Guest Artist and Founding Member of Congo Square Theatre Ensemble, Aaron Todd Douglas directs this ultimate courtroom drama.
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| The Twins Would Like to Say |
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| Steppenwolf Theatre |
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The Twins Would Like to Say breathes life into the extraordinary true story of identical twins June and Jennifer Gibbons. The young girls made a secret and powerful pact that went unbroken for more than 20 years: speak to no one but each other, do everything in unison. But in the privacy of their room, the girls’ fantasy life blossomed as they wrote novels of teenage lust and rebellion.
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| Wild Nights with Emily |
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| Lincoln Square Theater |
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A quirky queer comedy about a poet’s secret life, Wild Nights With Emily skips around in time and space, switching narratives in an energetic exploration through the life, the forbidden love, and the death of Miss Emily Dickinson… as you’ve never seen her before.
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| Wilson Wants It All |
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| Chopin Theatre |
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In 2040, the future of a divided nation is in the hands of a single man as he manipulates the fate of twin daughters, heirs to an American political dynasty. Separated at birth, they now find themselves caught on opposite sides of an escalating U.S. conflict. Following in the footsteps of the speculative fiction of Ray Bradbury and Philip K. Dick, Wilson Wants It All draws inspiration from the narrative core of A Tale of Two Cities, the 1993 feature film Dave, and the mythology of the Kennedy Camelot era.
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