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, Apr 15, 2010
Chicago Improv Festival
Featuring Tim Meadows, Susan Messing, Dusk: Improvised Tween Erotica, and more
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Where to go in the birthplace of off-Loop theater
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Rhinoceros Theater Festival
Reviews of six shows from the annual fringe festival
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Chicago SketchFest
The ninth annual Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival runs through January 17
by Steve Heisler
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Holiday Theater
Shows running through Christmas and beyond
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The Second City's 50th Anniversary Weekend
December 11-13
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Jazz Dance World Festival
Jazz Dance World Festival Through July 25 at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance
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Kosovo: The Musical
Chicago-Kent College of Law professor Hank Perritt has written a musical about the long blood feud between Serbs and Albanian Kosovars.
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Form Over Feelings
For Merce Cunningham, moving bodies are meant to tease the intellect.
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Choreography, Meet Plot
For movement theater to succeed, you need a plot as strong as the moves.
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, Oct 13, 2005
Open Swim
The Seldoms' new piece at (and in) the Hamlin PArk pool is a tribute to uncertainty.
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, Apr 21, 2005
My First Ring
The endurance test that is Wagner's masterpiece.
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Nine Words: "Performance of Sleep in One Long Act Without Intermission"
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Diva Doina
Doina Dimitriu steps into Renata Tebaldi's shoes--and Maria Callas's bodice--in the Lyric's Tosca.
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Oh, Grow Up
Youth is wasted on the old un uBung.
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, Sep 16, 2004
Shut Up and Dance
The Seldoms' structures are showing.
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, Aug 12, 2004
Don't Mess With Success
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, Jun 24, 2004
Differently Abled
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Neither Fish Nor Fowl
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Secret Admirers
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