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Performing Arts, Theater Review, Jan 16, 2013
Cupcakes bring a man back to life in American Wee-Pie

Rivendell Theatre Ensemble premieres a new play by Chicago's Lisa Dillman.
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, Lisa Dillman, cupcakes, comedy, Megan Carney, Keith Kupferer, American Wee-Pie, Kurt Brocker, Regina Garcia, Jennifer Pompa, Rivendell Theatre

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Performing Arts, Theater Review, Jan 8, 2013
Recommended
Everymotherfucker: The Motherfucker With the Hat is about all of us

Stephen Adly Guirgis’s play explores human motherfuckingness
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, Steppenwolf Theatre, Sandra Delgado, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Anna Shapiro, John Ortiz, Gary Perez, David Lindsay-Abaire, Jimmy Smits, Todd Rosenthal, Recommended

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Performing Arts, Theater Review, Jan 8, 2013
Rhinoceros? Imposserous—but true. Rhinofest is back

Curious Theatre Branch mounts the 24th annual Rhinofest
- by Jena Cutie
- Tags: Theater Review, Rhinoceros Theater Festival, fringe theater, Curious Theater Branch, R.J. Tsarov, Barrie Cole, Cornell Woolrich, Jenny Magnus, Beau O'Reilly, Paul William Brennan, Brain Surgeon Theater, Trash Vortex, Bruised Orange Theater Company, RhinoFest, Prop Thtr, Diana Slickman, Jeff Dorchen, David Isaacson, Greg Allen

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Performing Arts, Theater Review, Nov 28, 2012
The ho ho ho show review

Reader critics weigh in on eight new holiday shows
- by Tony Adler, Keith Griffith, Justin Hayford, Jack Helbig, Dan Jakes, Marissa Oberlander, and Zac Thompson
- Tags: Theater Review, Christmas 2012, A Christmas Carol, Goodman Theatre, Tom Creamer, Larry Yando, The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey, Susan Wojciechowski, Provision Theater, Timothy Gregory, Michael Mahler, El Stories: Holiday Train, CTA, el train, Waltzing Mechanics, Zack Florent, Greenhouse Theater Center, The Gifts of the Magi, Mark St. Germain, Randy Courts, O. Henry, Mark Lococo, Porchlight Music Theatre, Stage 773, It's a Bieberful Life, ComedySportz, Mel Evans, Justin Bieber, George Bailey, Frank Capra, It's a Wonderful Life, Maria Randazzo, Street Tempo Theatre, It's a Wonderful Santa Land Miracle Nut Cracking Christmas Story . . . Jews Welcome, Santa Claus Vs. the Easter Bunny, Michael Houghton Wagman, Vampire Koala, Donny's Skybox Studio, The Santaland Diaries, David Sedaris, Mitchell Fain, Jeremy Wechsler, Theater Wit, Provision Theater Company, Greenhouse Theatre, ComedySportz Theatre

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Performing Arts, Theater Review, Nov 21, 2012
It's the little things you miss about James Joyce's "The Dead"

Court Theatre's musical doesn't get to the subtle, transcendent heart of Joyce's short story
- by Zac Thompson
- Tags: Theater Review, James Joyce, James Joyce's "The Dead", The Dead short story, Dubliners, Richard Nelson, Shaun Davey, Gabriel Conroy, Philip Earl Johnson, Court Theatre, Susie McMonagle, Rob Lindley, Doug Peck

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Performing Arts, Theater Review, Nov 21, 2012
Hellcab's home for Christmas

The holiday show that doesn't feel like one gets a 20th-anniversary revival
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, nutcracker, taxis, cabs, Christmas, Christmas Eve, Darrell Cox, Konstantin Khrustov

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Performing Arts, Theater Review, Nov 14, 2012
What's pornographic about Porn

András Visky's tale of the Romanian dictatorship is too true to be powerful
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, porn, pornography, Andras Visky, Romania, Securitate, Eugene Ionesco, Nicolae Ceausescu, communism, abortion, Eva Patko, Ezra Colon, Melissa Lorraine

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Performing Arts, Theater Review, May 9, 2012
Eugene O'Neill's great joke

Robert Falls stages The Iceman Cometh at Goodman Theatre
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, Robert Falls, Eugene O'Neill, Harry Hope, Nathan Lane, Brian Dennehy, Theodore Hickman, Goodman Theatre, Camino Real

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Performing Arts, Theater Review, May 2, 2012
Revolting babies

In punky, dystopian Rise of the Numberless, outlawed children take to the ramparts
- by Zac Thompson
- Tags: Theater Review, Ursula Le Guin, Kazuo Ishiguro, Cormac McCarthy, Margaret Atwood, rock musical, New Colony, Bailiwick Chicago, dystopia, Patraic Coakley, Andrew Hobgood, Evan Linder, Chris Gingrich, Julie Nichols, rebellion, terrorism, paramilitary

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Performing Arts, Theater Review, Apr 25, 2012
Devices obvious and mechanical

Even Profiles Theatre can't find depth in Neil LaBute's In a Forest, Dark and Deep
- by Justin Hayford
- Tags: Theater Review, Neil Labute, Profiles Theatre, mystery, Agatha Christie, Joe Jahraus, Sam Shepard, siblings, Darrell Cox, Natasha Lowe

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Performing Arts, Theater Review, Mar 13, 2012
Camino to perdition

Humpings, beatings, shootings, stranglings—and two or three moments of mercy
- by Zac Thompson
- Tags: Theater Review, Goodman Theatre, Calixto Bieito, Marc Rosich, Tennessee Williams, Michael Medeiros, graphic sex, graphic violence, Rebecca Ringst, James Ingalls

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