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16 Chicago theater shows to see in July

Cirque du Soleil, new Broadway tours and more

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The controversy over a Sun-Times theater review is about more than ‘Pass Over’

The complaints aren’t just sour grapes

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‘Trevor’ debuts at Writers Theatre

The new musical is based on an Oscar-winning coming-out tale

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Chicago D(ART)

A new theater company launches to serve deaf artists and audiences

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Shakespeare in the parks

When and where to spread out a blanket and see a play under the stars this summer

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The King and I

Perhaps this touring production of the discomfiting chestnut should mark the end of its era

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3 out of 5 stars

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Ragtime

Griffin reinvents Ragtime in a “chamber musical” revival that’s brimming with invention and heart

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4 out of 5 stars

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Bright Half Life

Two women experience love's ups, downs, ins and outs out of order in Tanya Barfield’s gem of a romance

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4 out of 5 stars

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Parade

Jason Robert Brown’s impressive score and a strong cast make for an enjoyable staging of the somewhat chilly musical

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3 out of 5 stars

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The Hypocrites’ ‘Aristophanesathon’ is on after meeting advance ticket goal

The show will go on: With three days left to go, the Hypocrites met their 2,000-ticket presale goal today for next spring’s Aristophanesathon. Sean Graney’s...

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‘La Havana Madrid’ will transfer to the Goodman Theatre in July

Sandra Delgado’s La Havana Madrid, a fondly rendered tribute to a Lakeview Latinx nightclub and the new immigrants to which it catered in the 1960s and ’70s,...

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The controversy over a Sun-Times theater review is about more than ‘Pass Over’

Last week, while the theater found itself unexpectedly in the national news thanks to outrage over the Public Theater’s Trumpesque Julius Caesar in New York,...

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Headliners announced for first Chicago International Latino Theater Festival

The initial lineup for this fall’s inaugural Chicago International Latino Theater Festival, dubbed Destinos, includes visiting companies from Cuba, Mexico,...

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Silk Road Rising announces 2017–2018 theater season

Silk Road Rising, the Chicago theater company focused primarily on stories from writers of Asian, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean descent, has announced...