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(event) [Repeat] Theater: 'Shout! The Mod Musical' Start: 00:00 HollywoodChicago.com critic Adam Fendelman wrote in his review of the new musical “Shout! The Mod Musical”: Adam Fendelman wrote:The musical is the story of five fab women in London being liberated as children of the swinging 60s with the hair, heart and soul of the twist-and-shout generation. (event) [Repeat] Musical: 'Avenue Q' in Chicago Start: 00:00 HollywoodChicago.com critic Patrick McDonald wrote in his 2.5 out of 5.0 review of the new musical “Avenue Q” at Chicago’s Cadillac Palace Theatre: Patrick McDonald wrote:There is an old show-business saying that a “cheap laugh is better than no laugh”. “Avenue Q” practically bases its whole show on that adage. Still, the audience had a rollicking good time with the premise. (event) Beggars in the House of Plenty @ Mary-Arrchie Theatre Start: 20:00 End: 20:00 8PM start time

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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.