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- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Oct 9, 2019
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A streamlined version of A Doll's House races through Writers Theatre
Even without a door slam, Henrik Ibsen's classic hits home.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 22, 2017
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Writers Theatre's joyful The Importance of Being Earnest has a dreadful spoiler
Just as in Oscar Wilde's time, there are whispers in the audience.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 6, 2017
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Kanye West returns to Chicago, makes first live appearance in nearly a year, and other news
Also, the Chicago Police Department discredits terrorism plot rumors.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Sep 22, 2016
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Parachute Men, You on the Moors Now, and eight more new theater reviews
This week's stage highlights include three losers who (hopefully) make good and four 19th-century fictional heroines battling their would-be betrotheds.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature May 12, 2016
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Little Shop of Horrors, Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf, and ten more new stage shows
A monstrous revival and a collaboration between Writers Theatre and Second City are among this week's theater and performance best bets.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 31, 2016
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A beautiful new building opens with a complex play
Michael Halberstam's staging of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia is the inaugural production in Writers Theatre's new Studio Gang Architects building in Glencoe.
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Apr 14, 2015
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Michael Halberstam moonlights with the fledgling company Definition Theatre
As A Doll's House plays in the city, Writers Theatre's new Jeanne Gang-designed facility goes up in the burbs.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Sep 17, 2014
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Hnath Fest! Lookingglass and Writers Theatre present works by the same up-and-comer
And both Death Tax and Isaac's Eye show playwright Lucas Hnath's preoccupation with artifice.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review May 28, 2014
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Writers Theatre's Days Like Today can be a real pain
A new musical explores love and commitment—through annoying characters.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 18, 2012
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Jail break at the Metropolitan Correctional Center
For the first time in 27 years there's been an escape from the jail in the South Loop
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Sep 19, 2012
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A homo Hamlet?
Writers' Theatre takes a minority position on the melancholy Dane
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 16, 2012
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The NEA comes to Glencoe's aid
A $100,000 NEA grant will help build a theater in upscale Glencoe, Illinois
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Nov 5, 2009
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Waiting for Hamlet
Tom Stoppard's early, Beckettian play at Writers' Theatre
