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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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Improv/Sketch/Revues]]></category>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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>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>

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		<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: South Side of Heaven/Second City Mainstage</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/04/12/review-south-side-of-heavensecond-city-mainstage/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2011/04/12/review-south-side-of-heavensecond-city-mainstage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:53:45 +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[Billy Bungeroth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edgar Blackmon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Katie Rich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Second City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tim Robinson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;God works in mischievous ways&#8221; seems to be the subtext of an ambitious attempt to take the sketch-comedy-revue format beyond its traditional contours in the ninety-ninth mainstage show at the Second City. This ensemble, along with director Billy Bungeroth, has created a through line in the sketches, something about the inevitability of fate and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Spoiler Alert: Everybody Dies/Second City</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2010/07/19/review-spoiler-alert-everybody-diessecond-city/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2010/07/19/review-spoiler-alert-everybody-diessecond-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nina Metz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Improv/Sketch Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Improv/Sketch/Revues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Allison Bills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amy Jackson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Hovde]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sam Richardson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shelly Gossman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tim Robinson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Timothy Edward Mason]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The opening gag in Second City’s 98th mainstage revue dares audiences to break the fourth wall, and it involves not a single cast member in sight. It is a radical moment (best experienced firsthand) for such a mainstream, name-brand comedy theater.  At Second City, audiences have been conditioned to assume nothing too uncomfortable will be asked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Absolute Best Friggin’ Time of Your Life/Second City e.t.c.</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2010/05/03/review-the-absolute-best-friggin%e2%80%99-time-of-your-lifesecond-city-e-t-c/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2010/05/03/review-the-absolute-best-friggin%e2%80%99-time-of-your-lifesecond-city-e-t-c/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 21:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nina Metz</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[Beth Melewski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Billy Bungeroth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brendan Jennings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christina Anthony]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesse Case]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Sohn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Second City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Second City e.t.c.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tim Baltz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Flanigan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED If there is one reason to see Second City’s thirty-fourth revue on the e.t.c. stage, his name is Brendan Jennings, one of the newer writer-performers in the cast who makes his presence known with a good-natured mania that is impossible to ignore. Of the many talents who’ve worked on Second City’s stages in recent years, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Rush Limbaugh! The Musical!/Second City</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2010/02/08/review-rush-limbaugh-the-musicalsecond-city/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2010/02/08/review-rush-limbaugh-the-musicalsecond-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nina Metz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Improv/Sketch Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ed Furman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joey Bland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Sutton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Hovde]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rush Limbaugh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Second City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[T.J. Shanoff]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How do you make a satire about a satire?  That meta question goes unanswered—disappointingly so—in Second City’s new show “Rush Limbaugh! The Musical!”  There is so much lacking here, it’s hard to know where to begin. Say what you will about the man, Limbaugh’s entertainment instincts are impeccable; he knows how to put on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Taming of the Flu/Second City Mainstage</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2009/12/07/review-taming-of-the-flusecond-city-mainstage/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2009/12/07/review-taming-of-the-flusecond-city-mainstage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nina Metz</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[Andy St. Clair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brad Morris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mick Napier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Second City]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED If the comedy revues at Second City hew to a familiar pattern, it’s for a purpose. I don’t always agree with that purpose, but the theater just reached its fiftieth anniversary, so something’s working.  The company&#8217;s latest mainstage show may not be its strongest, but it is worth seeing for two reasons: Brad Morris [...]]]></description>
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