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Theater review: Play of Adam

On the second floor of Spurlock Museum, snuggled amongst the artifacts from medieval Europe, lies the Garden of Eden. No, [...]

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Perhaps a better dream, another time…

It seems that director Gary Griffin’s magic touch isn’t that effectively realized in the present production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer [...]

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Attack of the international ants

Relaxing on the quad, I stretch out and fold my arms under my head. I take in a deep breath [...]

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Wayward Souls

Doubt: to be uncertain or unlikely, to have distrust. It’s a general lack of certainty. The play Doubt is full [...]

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Monster Truck Heaven

Champaign, home of the University of Illinois, land of the arts and culture, and— city of monster trucks? It might [...]

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Theater Review: Company

Most people picture their first Super Bowl Sunday in college crammed around a television with a gaggle of buddies and [...]

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Theater Review: Hesperia

Randall Colburn’s  ”Hesperia” has been a work-in-progress around various Chicago theater venues since August of 2008. From workshop readings to [...]

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Preposterous Pachyderms

If you listen carefully enough, you can hear the trumpeting of elephants fill the Armory Free Theatre. On the second [...]

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Theater Review: The Sleeping Beauty

The Moscow Festival Ballet, founded in 1989, tours around the globe performing traditional ballets. The group made a stop in [...]

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Theater Review: Race

The Goodman Theatre’s present production of David Mamet’s newest play Race is an outstanding, provocative and thoroughly enthralling 90 minutes of theatre.  [...]

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The Station Theatre puts on Company

You walk in and sit down on one of only a few risers. The scenery juts out just before your [...]

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Theatre Review: Invisible Man

One of the great and important novels of the post-World War II era is Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man”. This stunning [...]

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