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Ray Bradbury’s ‘The Martian Chronicles’ Inventively Come to Life in Chicago Church Theater

Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on March 11, 2008 - 11:01pm.

The Martian Chronicles

CHICAGO – There was opportunity aplenty for director Kristina Schramm to miss this mark and leave theatergoers with acidic resentment. Tasked with the tall order of bringing to life Ray Bradbury’s classic anthology “The Martian Chronicles,” though, she wasn’t bested by the oddity of the undertaking.

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