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- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Apr 15, 2021
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Mercury Theater rises from the dead
The Southport corridor venue gets new life and new leadership.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Sep 11, 2019
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It's a silly place, but you should go to Spamalot
Your quest for a comedy master class ends at the Mercury Theater.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 13, 2019
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Little Shop of Horrors has not grown gracefully into the new millennium
Still, Mercury Theater's production hits all the right notes.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 16, 2018
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Bros do Prose brings hip-hop to Neverland in Peter Pan
The two-person cast plays a multitude of characters with infinite energy.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jul 5, 2018
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Growing up furry on Avenue Q
Aimless college grads still need their own Sesame Street.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Apr 25, 2018
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Ashes of Light is a family drama as moody, moving, and graceful as a plume of cigarette smoke
Its Spanish title, La Luz de un Cigarrillo, is more fitting.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Apr 18, 2018
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An engaging revival of Company explores the theme of marriage as partnership
No man, especially a 35-year-old bachelor, is an island.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Dec 13, 2017
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Beautiful, Bad Hombres, and nine more holiday stage shows to see
An Equity touring production of the Carole King musical and an evening of Latinx sketch comedy are among this week's best bets.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 19, 2017
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The Hypocrites’ Dracula is a victim of mistaken locality
What might be gory fun as a late-night show to be viewed drink in hand just ain't so from the seats at the Mercury.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Aug 10, 2017
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Hair, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and six more new stage shows to see now
"The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" and the unhinged Albee classic are among this week's best bets.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Feb 15, 2017
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The Scottsboro Boys, The Ghoul Exhibition, and nine more new theater reviews
A powerful Chicago premiere from Porchlight and a searing solo show on gun violence are among this week's best bets.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Oct 7, 2016
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The Bardy Bunch, The Last Wife, A Walk in the Woods, and ten more new stage shows
A mashup of Shakespeare with The Partridge Family and The Brady Bunch is one of this week's high- (or maybe lowlights).
- Arts & Culture, Feature Apr 27, 2016
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Bullets Over Broadway, The Producers, MPAACT's Feral, and nine more new theater reviews
Two hit musical comedies and a drama examining the Chicago Police Department's "systemic racism" are among this week's best bets.
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Dec 9, 2010
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Still in the Dark
Walter Stearns is talking about his plans for the Mercury Theater—but not about his investors.
