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		<title>Review: Elephant&#8217;s Graveyard/Red Tape Theatre</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2012/05/21/review-elephants-graveyardred-tape-theatre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 13:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Buscani</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theater Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carrie Drapac]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Brant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James D. Palmer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicole Rudakov]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Red Tape Theatre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sean Thomas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Big Switcheroo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED In 1916, The Sparks Circus brought its show to small-town Erwin, Tennessee. The result was that the ghosts of cruelty tarted up with sequins and called the greatest show on earth. The show’s star attraction, Mary the elephant, murdered its abusive handler; the townspeople’s bloodlust demanded its execution in return. Red Tape creates a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Good Enough/Erasing the Distance</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2012/05/17/review-good-enougherasing-the-distance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 17:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Buscani</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Genevieve Thompson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED As theater, Erasing the Distance’s piece discussing bipolar disorder is not very good. The staging is stagnant, the performance decisions and narrative angles are repetitious, and the sound and lighting don’t add as much as they could. I’ve seen director Genevieve Thompson’s work before; she has a great deal more to offer. But that’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Cripple of Inishmaan/Redtwist Theatre</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2012/05/15/review-the-cripple-of-inishmaanredtwist-theatre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 16:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Josh Salt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kimberly Senior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin McDonagh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Redtwist Theatre]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED “Ireland isn’t idyllic, and the Aran Islands aren’t meant to be a tourist trap… Inishmaan isn’t supposed to be an escape but a prison–something nasty, brutal and short.” So says the dramaturg’s note on the playbill of Redtwist Theatre’s newest production. The near-claustrophobic theater space, with stark grey stone for the walls and floor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: A Little Night Music/Writers’ Theatre</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2012/05/14/review-a-little-night-musicwriters-theatre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 22:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musicals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brandon Dahlquist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brianna Borger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deanna Dunagan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Weir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kristen French]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Royen Kent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shannon Cochran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shannon Corey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Sondheim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tiffany Scott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Valerie Maze]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writers' Theatre]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Although Writers’ Theatre is celebrating its twentieth anniversary season, it only began performing musicals a few seasons ago and with mixed results. But with William Brown on board to direct an all-new production of Stephen Sondheim’s “A Little Night Music” perfectly suited to its intimate stage, Writers is giving us a musical production worthy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Arcadia/New Leaf Theatre</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2012/05/14/review-arcadianew-leaf-theatre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 19:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Freeman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theater Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Billy Fenderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Granata]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hilary Williams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jessica Hutchinson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lincoln Park Cultural Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marsha Harman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Lilly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Leaf Theatre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Stoppard]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Tom Stoppard’s “Arcadia” is a play bursting with heavy themes and dichotomies, ranging from science versus literature to order versus chaos to thought versus feeling. Though the action all takes place around one large table in an English country house (well-imagined by scenic designer Michelle Lilly), the time period repeatedly shifts between the early [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Admiral Earth: A Working Title/Au Naturale Productions</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2012/05/14/review-admiral-earth-a-working-titleau-naturale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 19:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andi Woody]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Au Naturale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dylan Carey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rob Speer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stage 773]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED What’s the secret to getting a dystopian future rock opera to harken back to the childhood sentiments of Generation Y? Environmentalism! Au Naturale’s production of Admiral Earth will feel like old hat to lovers of the nineties animated television show “Captain Planet”—it even includes a musical piece that both acknowledges the influence and scorns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Rent/American Theater Company &amp; About Face Theatre</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2012/05/08/review-rentamerican-theater-company-about-face-theatre/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2012/05/08/review-rentamerican-theater-company-about-face-theatre/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 22:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musicals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommended Shows]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[About Face Theatre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aileen May]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Schmuckler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Theater Company]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Cromer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Derrick Trumbly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Esteban Andres Cruz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grace Gealey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Larson]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcitystage.com/?p=18519</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED That director David Cromer has developed a reputation for an ability to work magic on even the most taken-for-granted shows made his interest in “Rent” particularly intriguing, to say the least. No ordinary show, part of the mystique of “Rent” was the stranger-than-fiction reality that the composer of this updated transposition of Puccini’s “La bohème” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Tigers Be Still/Theater Wit</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2012/05/03/review-tigers-be-stilltheater-wit/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2012/05/03/review-tigers-be-stilltheater-wit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 20:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Buscani</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recommended Shows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theater Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guy Massey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeremy Wechsler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kasey Foster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Winn Heider]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Farabee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theater Wit]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED With the numerous struggling-to-move-forward “new economy” stories littering the cultural landscape currently, from HBO’s “Girls” to Tom Hanks in “Larry Crowne,” Theater Wit’s latest might have proved to be a teeth-clenching endurance exercise. But Kim Rosenstock’s off-kilter tale of people struggling to heal avoids clichés and displays true heart. Sherry (Mary Winn Heider) returns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Deliver Us From Nowhere/Tympanic Theatre</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2012/05/01/review-deliver-us-from-nowheretympanic-theatre/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2012/05/01/review-deliver-us-from-nowheretympanic-theatre/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 17:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Theater Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bruce Springsteen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jereme Rhodes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Murray]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Mayhan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tympanic Theatre Company]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED While successfully evoking the deep isolation and suffering present in Bruce Springsteen’s legendary &#8220;Nebraska,&#8221; the newest production from Tympanic Theatre also adds doses of surreal imagery and humor. With eleven playwrights paired with ten Chicago directors each using a different song to draw inspiration, the plays run the gamut emotionally. The dim, intimate space [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Duchess of Malfi/Strawdog</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2012/04/23/review-the-duchess-of-malfistrawdog/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2012/04/23/review-the-duchess-of-malfistrawdog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monica Westin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theater Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Goetten]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brandon Bruce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cate Davison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joshua Davis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kyle Gibson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lindsey Dorcus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[McKenzie Chinn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Sherwin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigel Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Fagan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strawdog Theatre]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED John Webster’s 400-year-old Jacobean revenge tragedy is most famous now for its violent incestuous themes and high body count. This has come to overshadow the accomplishment of &#8220;The Duchess of Malfi&#8221;: Long before the concept of psychoanalysis had been created, Webster made a complex and penetrating study of  human nature’s self-destructive and pathological tendencies. [...]]]></description>
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