There are something’s that just stick with you from your childhood. Any time a reminder of said memory comes up you can instantly recall when and where that memory took place. For me, I can clearly remember watching Ghostbusters as a young child and it sticking with me throughout my…
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Monday, 11 July 2016 17:37
Review: Steppenwolf's Between Riverside and Crazy
Written by John Accrocco
It’s not often a theatre company tackles two Pulitzer Prize winning plays in one season, but Steppenwolf is doing just that. While you may grow a long white beard waiting to see the 2016 winner, "Hamilton," Steppenwolf has 2014 and 2015 covered with "The Flick" and "Between Riverside and Crazy."…
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Monday, 11 July 2016 18:50
Factory Theater's "Dating and Dragons" A Hilarious Look At Gamers and Love
Written by Kimberly Katz
The Factory Theater Company just opened their latest production, Dating and Dragons, in its adorable space in the heart of Rogers Park. The venue is very intimate but comfortable, nicely lit, colorful and in this summer heat - well air conditioned! In Dating and Dragons, the lead character Jack and…
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Sunday, 10 July 2016 15:58
Magically Mirthful - First Folio's A Midsummer Night's Dream Under the Stars
Written by Ken Payne
In one of William Shakespeare’s most popular works, A Midsummer Night’s Dream has been performed widely across the world, this summer finding a temporary home at First Folio Theatre (Mayslake Peabody Estate in Oakbrook). Celebrating twenty years of the company’s annual Shakespeare Under the Stars Production, theatre goers are treated…
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One of the world’s most popular musicals has found a temporary home at Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire. And you should see it! Celebrating five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, the 1964 hit takes on a most interesting chapter in the life of Don Quixote while spending time in prison as…
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Friday, 24 June 2016 12:53
That's Weird, Grandma's Summer Series A Fine Credit To Barrel of Monkeys Great Work With CPS
Written by Ken Payne
For those of you who are not aware, there is a great youth program taking place where a group of educators have created an alternative education source for CPS students. Enter Barrel of Monkeys. Barrel of Monkeys (BOM) is a combined group of actors, teachers and musicians that have developed…
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Saturday, 25 June 2016 18:42
"This" Attempts To Identify With Thirty-Something Doubt
Written by Sara Hassan
I thoroughly enjoy the Windy City Playhouse and it appears they did a renovation since I was there last. The seats are comfortable and a full bar is a fantastic feature to any theater, if you ask me. In addition, the staff are incredibly friendly and very caring. I will…
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Sunday, 19 June 2016 18:31
40 Years of Spanish Art Form Mastery Comes to Life in "Flamenco Passion"
Written by Kimberly Katz
I love flamenco for its sensual power and the amazing way both female and male dancers, whether solo or couples, locked in passionate embrace are able to make the human body dance with such precision and emotional fury. Is there any other dance form where the men are so manly…
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Imagine a 70s-era Woody Allen movie set to music. That's basically "Company" by Stephen Sondheim. It premiered in a time when many Broadway musicals were just collections of songs loosely connected by a simple plot. In 1970, Sondheim's "Company" challenged that formula by presenting a musical that was more book…
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Wednesday, 22 June 2016 12:47
Vegas Report: V - The Ultimate Variety Show Lives Up To Its Name
Cindy Payne
My guests and I were seated directly in front of the center stage - I could touch it. I had not taken a ‘sneak peak’ of the acts as to what we might expect. So, with only the anticipation of the unknown, V - The Ultimate Variety Show was completely…
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Wednesday, 22 June 2016 12:07
Review: The Grapes of Wrath at The Gift Theatre
Written by John Accrocco
"It's a wicked book," Steinbeck once said of his Pulitzer Prize winning novel "The Grapes of Wrath". The seminole book about the Great Depression appeared in early 1939, just as the U.S. was clawing its way out of the trenches of poverty and into the boon of WWII. It tells…
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Wednesday, 22 June 2016 17:26
Vegas Report - Vegas! The Show Brings Back the Golden Olden Days of Vegas with New Energy
Written by Ken Payne
As I sat down in my second row center seats in Planet Hollywood Casino Hotel and Casino’s Saxe Theater, the couple next to me told me excitedly that they had seen Vegas! The Show as VIP's to meet the cast afterwards ten times! This lovely couple in their early sixties…
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Wednesday, 22 June 2016 17:15
Vegas Report - Jabbawockeez Is An Exciting Dance and Comedy Adventure for Everyone
Written by Ken Payne
Las Vegas - Dazzling light displays, glitzy hotels with themes ranging from some of the planet’s most desired locations such as Paris, Venice and Egypt, exciting casinos filled with the sounds of cheering and the cha-chings of slot machines, energetic clubs with sexy dancers and, maybe best of all, some…
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