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‘The Mark of Zorro’ Nails Swordsman, Markedly Complicates Cast, Botches Dialect

Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on May 15, 2008 - 1:33am.

The Mark of Zorro at the Lifeline Theatre in Chicago

CHICAGO – Sometimes less, of course, is more. Live theater often knows that better than anyone. That’s exactly the shrill reminder Chicago’s Lifeline Theatre needed in Katie McLean’s adaptation of the beloved Zorro book by Johnston McCulley.

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Route 66’s ‘On an Average Day’ Brings the House Down at Chicago’s Victory Gardens

CHICAGO – Chicago theatre often surprises its audiences in the notorious fizzling summer months by providing us what I like to call “Christmas in July”. In this case, though, it’s August and Santa has hopped onto Route 66.
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