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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, Mar 12, 2013
Recommended
How Long Will I Cry? puts a face on urban violence

DePaul prof Miles Harvey created a powerful piece of documentary-style theater.
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, Miles Harvey, Steppenwolf Theatre, Steppenwolf for Young Adults, DePaul University, Mark Ulrich, Edward Torres, J. Salome Martinez Jr., Berly Valladares, William Boles, Crown fountain, Millennium Park, Austin branch library, Little Village Branch Library, Gary Comer Youth Center, Harold Washington Library Center, Whitney Young branch library, Humboldt Park Branch Library, Recommended

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Performing Arts, Theater Review, Feb 20, 2013
Julius Caesar and Teddy Ferrara have tactical issues

Chicago Shakespeare and Goodman Theatre put on plays about power struggles.
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, Julius Caesar, Teddy Ferrara, Jonathan Munby, Christopher Shinn, Tyler Clementi, Jason Kolotouros, David Darlow, John Light, Larry Yando, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Goodman Theatre

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Performing Arts, Theater Review, May 1, 2013
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The Lake Effect keeps the mold intact

Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo author Rajiv Joseph returns to his quirky/intimate style.
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, Rajiv Joseph, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Lookingglass Theatre Company, Bengal Tiger, The Leopard and the Fox, Tariq Ali, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Gruesome Playground Injuries, Animals Out of Paper, All This Intimacy, Timothy Douglas, Mark Smith, Victory Gardens Theater, Oedipus El Rey, Teddy Ferrara, Goodman Theatre

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Performing Arts, Theater Review, Jan 30, 2013
The Whipping Man goes south

Matthew Lopez's play shows its seams in a Northlight Theatre production.
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, Northlight Theatre, slavery, Jews, the south, Civil War, Matthew Lopez, Tim Edward Rhoze, Kimberly Senior

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Performing Arts, Theater Review, Mar 13, 2013
A doctor recalls Lincoln's final hours in An American Story for Actor and Orchestra

Hershey Felder fails to save the 16th president—or the script.
- by Justin Hayford
- Tags: Theater Review, Hershey Felder, George Gershwin Alone, Rhapsody in Blue, Chopin, Beethoven, Bernstein, An American Story for Actor and Orchestra, Charles Leale, Abraham Lincoln, Trevor Hay, the Great Depression, Julius Caesar, Edwin Booth, Junius Booth, John Wilkes Booth, New York City, Stephen Foster, Our American Cousin, Lincoln's Last Hours, My Old Kentucky Home, Aaron Copland

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Performing Arts, Theater Review, Jan 30, 2013
Recommended
A writer picks at the family scab in Other Desert Cities

Jon Robin Baitz tells the secrets of a Palm Springs family.
- by Zac Thompson
- Tags: Theater Review, writing, Jon Robin Baitz, Henry Wishcamper, Brooke Wyeth, Tracy Michelle Arnold, Chelcie Ross, Deanna Dunagan, John Hoogenakker, Goodman Theatre, Recommended

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Performing Arts, Theater Review, Mar 6, 2013
Are you going to the After Party?

Steppenwolf Theatre Company gives audiences something to see after Garage Rep.
- by Jena Cutie
- Tags: Theater Review, The After Party, Garage Rep, DJs, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Salonathon, Spektral Quartet, Paper Mice, Shannon Matesky, She Think She Grown, Route 66 Theatre, Next Stop: A New Chicago Musical, Diana Lawrence, City Life Supplement, Windy City Sould Club, TAP

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Performing Arts, Theater Review, May 16, 2013
Barbara Gaines goes all auteur on Henry VIII

Chicago Shakespeare Theater's production is undone by overdoing.
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, Barbara Gaines, Henry VIII, Lincoln Avenue, the Bard, Navy Pier, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Goodman Theatre, Robert Falls, King Lear, Eastern Europe, John Fletcher, Queen Elizabeth I, Henry V, Gregory Wooddell, Jane Seymour, Gold Diggers of 1933

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Performing Arts, Theater Review, Jan 23, 2013
Recommended
Belarus Free Theater is back in Chicago

The outlawed Belarusan ensemble in a brief run of Minsk, 2011: A Reply to Kathy Acker.
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Recommended

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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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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, 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, 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, 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, Mar 6, 2013
Garage Rep's fourth rep

Steppenwolf Theatre's annual showcase fills in the genre blanks.
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, Garage Rep, Steppenwolf Theatre, Sara Sawicki, Rinska Carrasco-Prestinary, Allie Long, Katherine Banks, Morgan Maher, Rachel Goldberg, Buzz22, She Kills Monsters, Qui Nguyen, comedy, Scott Weinstein, Christina Anderson, Blacktop Sky, Julian Parker, Danni Smith, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Merle Reskin Garage Theatre, Victory Garden Theater, Balliwick Chicago, Michael John LaChiusa, Joseph Moncure March, The Wild Party, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Akira Kurosawa, Lili-Anne Brown, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Merle Reskin Garage Theatre

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Performing Arts, Theater Review, Feb 13, 2013
In Lookingglass Theatre's Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, the big cat sleeps tonight

Heidi Stillman's staging of the play by Rajiv Joseph lacks a sense of urgency.
- by Zac Thompson
- Tags: Theater Review, Lookingglass Theatre Company, Kareem Bandealy, Daniel Ostling, Rajiv Joseph, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Troy West, Heidi Stillman, JJ Phillips, Walter Owen Briggs, Anish Jetjmalani

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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, Feb 6, 2013
Pinter's The Birthday Party, now
menace-free

Austin Pendleton directs John Mahoney and Moira Harris in the Steppenwolf Theatre production of Harold Pinter’s early play.
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Upstairs Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, Harold Pinter, The Birthday Party, comedy of menace, Austin Pendleton, Marc Grapey, Ian Bradford, Rachel Anne Healy, Francis Guinan, John Mahoney, Moira Harris, Sophia Sinise

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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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