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The day has come. Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is open.Almost ten years in the making, this stage treatment of the Marvel Comics superhero has become famous for going awry.

1. Steppenwolf's Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is moving to Broadway, a relatively surprising move, considering the show was revived on Broadway seven years ago. But it is timely; the show will open on the 50th anniversary of its original opening night.

Actress and singer Karen Mason came back to Chicago just in the nick of time. She’s been wowing crowds in New York, performing in dimly lit cabarets and under the bright lights of Broadway.

Chicago's reputation as a place where New York shows are born has come a long, long way from the occasional shot 20 years ago to a regular parade of productions nowadays.

Actor-playwright-monologist John Leguizamo will return to Chicago Feb. 1-12 to break in his new Broadway-bound show, "Ghetto Klown" (which is being called "John Leguizamo Warms Up" here, for reasons unknown).