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		<title>Review: Who Do We Think We Are?/Second City</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2012/04/20/review-who-do-we-think-we-aresecond-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Freeman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Improv/Sketch Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Improv/Sketch/Revues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommended Comedy Shows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edgar Blackmon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Sohn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Hovde]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Second City]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Second City’s one-hundredth revue jumps right into election year by kicking off with a bit where race, religion and Fox News take the forefront. From the opening moments, director Matt Hovde has shot the entire show through with a fast-paced, slightly unpredictable quality that makes for the best kind of sketch comedy. Even when we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Second City&#8217;s Improv All-Stars/UP Comedy Club</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2012/02/14/review-the-second-citys-improv-all-starsup-comedy-club/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Improv/Sketch Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Improv/Sketch/Revues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommended Comedy Shows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chelsea Devantez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cody Dove]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mick Napier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Second City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UP Comedy Club]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED For years, if you&#8217;d ask the average Chicagoan to name the best place to see improv, they&#8217;d answer Second City. The problem was, Second City did not produce improv shows; sketch comedy is their thing. So with the UP Comedy Club, their new upstairs venue with a focus on stand-up, they&#8217;ve added a regular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: K.C. Redheart Presents Process/The Playground Theater</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2012/01/16/review-k-c-redheart-presents-processthe-playground-theater/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2012/01/16/review-k-c-redheart-presents-processthe-playground-theater/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Freeman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Improv/Sketch Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Improv/Sketch/Revues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommended Shows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[K.C. Redheart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Playground Theater]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED In a remount of their well-received 2011 improv format, Playground Theater ensemble member K.C. Redheart once again takes the audience through “the entire process of bringing a show to the stage,” breaking the action into three parts: the initial table read, a tech rehearsal and opening night. Working from an audience suggestion of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2012/01/10/review-chicago-sketch-comedy-festival/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2012/01/10/review-chicago-sketch-comedy-festival/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Improv/Sketch Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommended Comedy Shows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Awkward Silence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Posen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emily Claiborne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exquisite Corpse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gretchen and Regina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hillary Williams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stage 773]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Sean Miller Explosion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcitystage.com/?p=16439</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED If alcohol did not exist, sketch comedy would have to invent it. I arrived at this brilliant insight sitting alone at a cabaret table on a Sunday afternoon watching the charming duo of &#8220;Gretchen and Regina&#8221; deliver a set of clever, funny songs about romance and heartbreak to a roomful of Sketchfest patrons swigging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corn Productions announces 2011-2012 season</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/08/31/corn-productions-announces-2011-2012-season/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2011/08/31/corn-productions-announces-2011-2012-season/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Kelsey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Season Announcements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corn Productions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Weiss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kara Karstedt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Anderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Bouwman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Todd Schaner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the press release from Corn Productions: Corn Productions has made it to 20! Founded in 1992, Corn has continued to bring original comedy to Chicago through three new Presidents, two Iraq wars, and one heck of a lot of laughs. Corn is celebrating twenty long years with a spectacular season that honors our mission [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Colin Quinn: Long Story Short/Broadway in Chicago</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/08/25/review-colin-quinn-long-story-shortbroadway-in-chicago/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2011/08/25/review-colin-quinn-long-story-shortbroadway-in-chicago/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Freeman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommended Shows]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Theater Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Broadway In Chicago]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colin Quinn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerry Seinfeld]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Colin Quinn (best known for “SNL” and “Tough Crowd With Colin Quinn”) has a knack for making cynicism sound almost playful. His latest one-man show finds him systematically traversing the globe in (mostly) chronological order examining the successes and ultimate failures of various cultures and societies, constantly reminding us that despite what we think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Sky&#8217;s the Limit (Weather Permitting)/Second City e.t.c.</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/07/22/review-skys-the-limit-weather-permittingsecond-city-e-t-c/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2011/07/22/review-skys-the-limit-weather-permittingsecond-city-e-t-c/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Freeman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Improv/Sketch Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Improv/Sketch/Revues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aidy Bryant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brendan Jennings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jessicay Joy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Sohn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Lehrer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Second City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Second City e.t.c.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tim Baltz]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcitystage.com/?p=14333</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The lightheartedly ominous backdrop (the Chicago skyline with a colorful storm bearing down on it) of the Second City’s thirty-fifth revue on the e.t.c. stage nicely sets up the theme of impending disaster that runs through this series of sketches and songs. Whether it’s a zombie apocalypse, an unexpected pregnancy or a couple arguing after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Jeff Garlin in No Sugar Tonight/Steppenwolf Theatre</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/07/14/review-jeff-garlin-in-no-sugar-tonightsteppenwolf-theatre/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2011/07/14/review-jeff-garlin-in-no-sugar-tonightsteppenwolf-theatre/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recommended Comedy Shows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stand-Up]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andy Kaufman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeff Garlin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerry Seinfeld]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Larry David]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steppenwolf]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcitystage.com/?p=14251</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED At some point in Jeff Garlin&#8217;s free-wheeling stand-up comedy routine, he announces, &#8220;I&#8217;m the world&#8217;s most comfortable comedian. Not the world&#8217;s funniest, which is what you want, but the most comfortable.&#8221; That&#8217;s about right. Garlin&#8217;s show is less &#8220;show&#8221; (as he makes pains to point out more than once), and more like hanging out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>411: South Side Funny</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/06/23/411-south-side-funny/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2011/06/23/411-south-side-funny/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[-News etc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Improv/Sketch/Revues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Pintor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Southside Ignoramus Quartet]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcitystage.com/?p=13801</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you enjoy the loose vibe at Second City shows—the cocktail-lounge atmosphere, the audience-performer interaction—then you might just love the shows being produced in a Pilsen backyard by the Southside Ignoramus Quartet (SIQ) on June 25, July 9 and July 16. SIQ offers all the trappings of a great North Side show—special guest comedians, improv [...]]]></description>
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		<title>411: A Practical Return</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/06/09/411-a-practical-return/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2011/06/09/411-a-practical-return/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[-News etc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Improv/Sketch/Revues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brad Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Louis-Dreyfus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Barrosse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Practical Theatre Co.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victoria Zielinski]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Barrosse always intended to return to Chicago, the place where he made a name for himself in the 1980s creating improv comedy revues while helping found the Practical Theatre Co. When the group—which for a time in the early part of the decade rivaled Second City as members like Brad Hall, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and [...]]]></description>
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