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19 (event) Film review: 'The Witnesses' Start: 00:00 (event) Film review: 'Body of War' Start: 00:00	20 (event) 'Beggars in the House of Plenty' Start: 20:00	21 (event) 'Beggars in the House of Plenty' End: 20:00 (event) [Repeat] Theater: 'Shout! The Mod Musical' Start: 00:00	22 (event) [Repeat] Theater: 'Shout! The Mod Musical' Start: 00:00	23 (event) [Repeat] Theater: 'Shout! The Mod Musical' Start: 00:00 (event) Film review: 'Postal' Start: 00:00 (event) "America the Beautiful" Q & A Screening Start: 11:57 (event) Beggars in the House of Plenty @ Mary-Arrchie Theatre - Preview Start: 20:00	24 (event) "America the Beautiful" Q & A Screening End: 11:57 (event) Beggars in the House of Plenty @ Mary-Arrchie Theatre - Preview End: 20:00 (event) [Repeat] Theater: 'Shout! The Mod Musical' Start: 00:00	25 (event) [Repeat] Theater: 'Shout! The Mod Musical' Start: 00:00 (event) Beggars in the House of Plenty - Chicago Premiere - at Mary-Arrchie Start: 20:00

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‘Superior Donuts’ From Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright Tracy Letts a Chicago Dish, Albeit a Stale One

CHICAGO – I wouldn’t have wanted to be Tracy Letts on Saturday afternoon. After winning both the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award for his opus “August: Osage County,” he had to have been feeling the tremendous pressure being placed on his newest work and first comedy “Superior Donuts”.
Chicago’s ‘Relatively Close’ is Concrete Proof That Death is Easy, Comedy is Hard

CHICAGO – Forget the Year of the Rat. This is the year of the dysfunctional family reunion.

With Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize-winning drama “August: Osage County,” the Broadway remounting of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and the Tony-sweeping revival of “Gypsy,” 2008 has been saturated with some of the finest performances of relational drama that theatre has seen in years.