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		<title>The Top 5 of Everything 2010: Stage</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2010/12/21/the-top-5-of-everything-2010-stage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 22:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top 5 Shows &#8220;The Brother/Sister Plays,&#8221; Steppenwolf &#8220;August: Osage County,&#8221; Broadway In Chicago &#8220;Hughie&#8221;/&#8221;Krapp&#8217;s Last Tape,&#8221; Goodman &#8220;1001,&#8221; Collaboraction &#8220;Who&#8217;s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?&#8221; Steppenwolf —Brian Hieggelke Top 5 Play Revivals &#8220;A Streetcar Named Desire,&#8221; Writers&#8217; Theatre &#8220;Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?&#8221; Steppenwolf &#8220;To Kill a Mockingbird,&#8221; Steppenwolf Young Adult &#8220;Private Lives,&#8221; Chicago Shakespeare Theater &#8220;After the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preview: Annie Get Your Gun/Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Ravinia</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2010/08/10/preview-annie-get-your-gunchicago-symphony-orchestra-at-ravinia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Polkow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Patti LuPone initially came to prominence originating the completely sung role of Eva Peron on Broadway in “Evita,” for which she won a Tony Award. Her career took a tumble however, when after originating the role of Norma Desmond in “Sunset Boulevard” on London’s West End, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber abruptly replaced her with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preview: Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte &amp; The Marriage of Figaro/Chicago Symphony Orchestra &amp; Chorus at Ravinia</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2010/08/02/preview-mozart%e2%80%99s-cosi-fan-tutte-the-marriage-of-figaro-chicago-symphony-orchestra-chorus-at-ravinia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Polkow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED During the early decades of the twentieth century, Ravinia was the summer opera capital of the United States. Concert opera was also the centerpiece of the twenty-two-year Ravinia music directorship of James Levine, music director of the Metropolitan Opera. That tradition stopped under Christoph Eschenbach but has continued on under James Conlon, who is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Three Decembers/Chicago Opera Theater</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2010/05/10/review-three-decemberschicago-opera-theater/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 17:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Polkow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all of the hullabaloo concerning mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade’s “farewell” performances in Chicago, it would be wonderful to report that Chicago Opera Theater’s production of Jake Heggie’s “Three Decembers” is a work worthy of the occasion. Alas, such is not the case. The ninety-minute one-act “opera”—and the term is loosely used—originally written for von [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Once and Future Role: George Hearn comes back to Camelot, where he began</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2009/06/01/once-and-future-role-george-hearn-comes-back-to-camelot-where-he-began/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Polkow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On November 22, 1963, George Hearn was set to perform &#8220;Camelot&#8221; in Columbus, Ohio.  Hearn was playing Sir Dinadan on the first national tour of the beloved Broadway musical but was also understudy to both King Arthur and Merlin the Magician when the news came that President John F. Kennedy had been shot and killed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Auditorium Theatre&#8217;s 2009-2010 Dance Series season announcement</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2009/04/17/auditorium-theatres-2009-2010-dance-series-season-announcement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 03:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the press release from The Auditorium Theatre: THE AUDITORIUM THEATRE OF ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES 2009-2010 DANCE SERIES AND CELEBRATES THE THEATRE’S 120TH ANNIVERSARY World-Class Lineup Includes Performances by Miami City Ballet, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Ballet Folklórico de México de Amalia Hernández and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater CHICAGO — Brett Batterson, executive director [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Abduction from the Seraglio/Lyric Opera</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2009/03/09/review-the-abduction-from-the-seragliolyric-opera/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Polkow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, the principal responsibility of the director of an operatic production was to make sure that the singers didn’t bump into one another or the scenery on stage.  Then, came the idea of the “concept” director where a novel idea—whether inspired or not, whether logical or not—ruled the day.  It became increasingly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Robber Bridegroom/Griffin Theatre Company</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2009/02/16/review-the-robber-bridegroomgriffin-theatre-company/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Buscani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Griffin Theatre Company&#8217;s “The Robber Bridegroom,” which got its start at the Ravinia Festival in 1975, triumphantly returns to its city of origin. Alfred Uhry’s adaptation of Eudora Welty’s novella is a downhome, high-energy, racy good time. Set in nineteenth-century Mississippi, the show follows wealthy planter Clemment Musgrove (Michael Pacas), who is saved from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Players 2009: The 50 people who really perform for Chicago</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2009/01/13/the-players-the-50-people-who-really-perform-for-chicago/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What makes Chicago&#8217;s theater world special? We picked up the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly for clues. In the cover story, &#8220;CSI&#8221; star William Petersen explains his decision to leave his role as one of the top paid actors in television, earning a rumored $600,000 an episode, to move back to Chicago and Chicago theater: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newcity&#8217;s Top 5 of Everything 2008: Stage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lynch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top 5 Shows “Caroline, or Change,” Court Theatre “A House with No Walls,” Timeline Theatre “The Glass Menagerie,” Steppenwolf Theatre “No Darkness Round My Stone,” Trap Door Theatre “The Birthday Party,” Signal Theater —Monica Westin Top 5 Shows “Jon,” Collaboraction “A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant,” A Red Orchid “Be More Chill,” Griffin Theatre [...]]]></description>
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