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The guys who could make Shakespeare-haters love him and hip-hop-haters love it set out to rescue another classic: A Christmas Carol.
The guys who could make Shakespeare-haters love him and hip-hop-haters love it set out to rescue another classic: A Christmas Carol.
Chicago remembers Gilda Radner, even if others forget, and everyone’s favorite middlebrow bondage novel gets an impressive musical parody.
Jonathan stays traditional this week with two Gilbert & Sullivan favorites, while Kelly surrenders her curmudgeonly self to the charms of Annie at the Paramount Arts Center.
‘A Christmas Carol,’ ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ and ‘The Santaland Diaries’ offer up some seasonal fun for families and theater-goers alike.
Closing a Halloween show, opening a Veterans’ Day show and three more weekend theater picks from the Dueling Critics.
Theatrical variety is on parade this weekend as monologist David Kodeski and composer Eric Reda co-author an opera tracking a gay life in the arts, while Oak Park’s Circle Theatre goes Bollywood and …
Another hit for TimeLine; another whimsical turn from Strange Tree Group.
Expect a pitiless look at gender politics when Rendition Theatre presents August Strindberg’s 1887 tragedy The Father at the Swedish American Museum. Or, leap forward 100 years and watch Lanford …
MPAACT takes on academic politics while Pine Box Theatre skewers electoral politics and the Strange Tree Group puts its own complicated spin on the venerable murder mystery.
So you think you’ve seen Georges Seurat’s famous painting “A Sunday on the Island of La Grande Jatte –1884”? You know, the pointillist one that inspired Stephen Sondheim’s musical Sunday in the Park …