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		<title>Review: The City Life Supplement/Bootstraps Comedy</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2012/01/30/review-the-city-life-supplementbootstraps-comedy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Freeman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bootstraps Comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chad Spear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric Loughlin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garrison Keillor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Lyle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phil Garno]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Transistor Chicago]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Calling itself the “metropolitan” version of “A Prairie Home Companion,” this monthly live radio-show-cum-podcast takes what Garrison Keillor has been doing for decades and adapts it for a younger, hipper crowd, throwing in more laughs (and more swearing). Led with a mix of wide-eyed earnestness and subtle cynicism by artistic director and head writer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Some Enchanted Evening/Theo Ubique</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/03/15/review-some-enchanted-eveningtheo-ubique/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Austin Cook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dana Tretta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Danni Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evan Tyrone Martin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeffrey B. Moss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeremy Trager]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rodgers and Hammerstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sara Schoch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theo Ubique]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED In addition to its musical theater productions, Theo Ubique has presented a number of revue shows over the years that have showcased the likes of Jacques Brel, Kurt Weill, Harold Arlen and Stephen Sondheim. The group has never performed a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical before, however, and has decided that its first foray into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Astronaut&#8217;s Birthday/Redmoon-MCA Stage</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2010/09/14/review-the-astronauts-birthdayredmoon-mca-stage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Performance Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Premiere]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donovan Foote]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Maugeri]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Lasko]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MCA Stage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Museum of Contemporary Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Redmoon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Fitzpatrick]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a brilliant sort of &#8220;Eureka!&#8221; moment revealed early in the staging of &#8220;The Astronaut&#8217;s Birthday,&#8221; Redmoon&#8217;s spectacle produced in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art, and that is the realization that the array of symmetrical windows composing the facade of the museum&#8217;s Josef Paul Kleihues building make a perfect set of panels for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Living Canvas: Demons/National Pastime Theater</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2010/07/19/review-the-living-canvas-demonsnational-pastime-theater/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Freeman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Isaac Mendel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naked July]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Pastime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pete Guither]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Living Canvas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Since 2001, artistic director Pete Guither has been projecting images onto naked performers as part of &#8220;The Living Canvas.&#8221; “Demons,” their seventh show in Chicago, delves into the mind of a troubled young woman as she transports her sister into the fantastical world she lives in: a world filled with faeries, phantasms and playful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Passage&#8217;s Edge/The Argillaceous Visionaries</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2010/05/25/review-the-passages-edgethe-argillaceous-visionaries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 18:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Performance Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben Pardo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Argillaceous Visionaries]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In this numbingly drab one-man show, actor Ben Pardo languidly moves around the sparse stage reciting poetry for a full hour—and although the amount of memorization here is rather impressive, the delivery is decidedly not. From very brief Emily Dickinson and A.E. Houseman pieces, to the lengthy Samuel Taylor Coleridge classic “The Rime of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Mark the Encounter: A Passion Performance in 12 Acts/Chris Sullivan at Rhinofest</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2010/02/01/review-mark-the-encounter-a-passion-performance-in-12-acts-chris-sullivan-at-rhinofest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monica Westin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Unfortunately, there was only one performance of Chris Sullivan&#8217;s creepy, gorgeous, hilarious, and profoundly one-off show at Rhinofest this year. However, &#8220;Mark the Encounter&#8221; has been in development for years (it shows), and so it&#8217;s possible there will be another incarnation in Chicago, though its creator plans to take it on the road before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Oh, Coward!/Writers’ Theatre</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2009/12/08/review-oh-cowardwriters%e2%80%99-theatre/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2009/12/08/review-oh-cowardwriters%e2%80%99-theatre/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Polkow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Holiday]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Books on Vernon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Doug Peck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Corti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Sanders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kate Fry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noël Coward]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rob Lindsey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roderick Cook]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED When the Noël Coward revue “Oh, Coward!” opened in late 1972, Coward himself was still around but his detached and wry style had fallen way out of fashion. British actor/director/playwright Roderick Cook thought that the time was right to remind us all of what an original voice Coward had been, and the result was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Banana Shpeel/Cirque du Soleil</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2009/12/07/review-banana-shpeelcirque-du-soleil/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2009/12/07/review-banana-shpeelcirque-du-soleil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Polkow</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Theatre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cirque du Soleil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Passer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon White]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerry Kernion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrick de Valette]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wayne Wilson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Traditional Cirque du Soleil fans—and they are legion—are likely to find this latest comedy-packed, vaudeville-style entry in the franchise a perplexing, even tedious experience in that it has little in common with past offerings. “Daniel, help me down from here,” says clown Wayne Wilson, caught on a rising microphone. “I can’t,” says Daniel Passer, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: A Rogue&#8217;s Gallery/Royal George</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2009/12/02/review-a-rogues-galleryroyal-george/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2009/12/02/review-a-rogues-galleryroyal-george/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Performance Reviews]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Mamet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ricky Jay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shel Silverstein]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Ricky Jay opened &#8220;A Rogue&#8217;s Gallery&#8221; by reciting a poem that his friend Shel Silverstein wrote for him, in which Jay defends himself against a gun-wielding sore loser with only his playing cards. By the end of the evening, the idea of Jay fighting crime with cards seemed not only entirely possible, but paled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Fear/Neo-Futurists</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2009/09/28/review-fearneo-futurists/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2009/09/28/review-fearneo-futurists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Polkow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Halloween]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[World Premiere]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edgar Allan Poe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neo-Futurists]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED There are those who find the Neo-Futurists scary any time of the year, so the thought of the avant-garde ensemble actually setting out to be scary for the Halloween season sounded intriguing, to say the least.  As you wait for your Edgar Allan Poe-themed tour to begin, you notice, ever so subtlely, the presence [...]]]></description>
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