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WINDY CITY TIMES
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Theater spotlight and Critics' Picks
2014-10-29
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Out of Disorder is a double bill of monologues that tackle real-life topics that might make you laugh as well as squirm with discomfort. Find out how a male model raised in Baltimore, Maryland, developed anorexia in Christopher L. Moore's autobiographical piece Hunger Pains. Then see how Ali Clayton coped with a learning disability in North Carolina schools before she eventually pursued a career in standup comedy in the piece I'm Different, Not Dumb. Out of Disorder plays from Thursday, Oct. 30, through Sunday, Nov. 9, at the Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave. Performance times are 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, with 3 p.m. matinees on Sundays. Tickets are $20; call 773-404-7336 or visit greenhousetheater.org . Photo courtesy of Greenhouse Theater Center.
Critics' Picks
Depraved New World, The Second City, open run. With elements of long-form improv, Second City's 102nd mainstage revue features an extremely sharp cast ( especially John Hartman ), some high-risk musical improv, several gay specific scenes and advanced use of music and sound. JA.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Porchlight Music Theatre at Stage 773, extended through Nov. 16. This revival of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's macabre musical masterpiece is impeccibly cast by director Michael Weber, who also has a few staging surpises up his sleeve to shock and scare audiences. SCM
Take Me Out, Eclectic Theatre Company at Athenaeum Theatre, through Nov. 2. It's about baseball, about being gay, about tragic hubris, it's got smart dialogue and three full-frontal shower sceneshow can you not see this play? MSB
Watch on the Rhine, The Artistic Home, though Nov. 16. In 1941, Lillian Hellman introduced U.S. residents to the concept of global intervention and The Artistic Home's heavy-lifting ensembledown to the very childrenascertains that we heed its lesson in 2014. MSB
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