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  2. Theater in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    In 1837, the first resident theater company, the short-lived Chicago Theater, opened in the Sauganash Hotel. One of the players was then a boy named Joseph Jefferson, who grew to become a very successful comedic actor. Chicago's main theater prize, the Joseph Jefferson award, is named after this pioneer.

  3. Chicago Shakespeare Theater - Wikipedia

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    Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) is a non-profit, professional theater company located at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois. Its more than six hundred annual performances performed 48 weeks of the year include its critically acclaimed Shakespeare series, its World's Stage touring productions, and youth education and family oriented programming.

  4. William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    William Ordway Partridge's garlanded statue of William Shakespeare in Lincoln Park, Chicago, typical of many created in the 19th and early 20th centuries During the Romantic era , Shakespeare was praised by the poet and literary philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge , and the critic August Wilhelm Schlegel translated his plays in the spirit of ...

  5. ‘The Notebook’ musical, born at Chicago Shakespeare, will ...

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    CHICAGO — “The Notebook,” the new musical based on the 1996 Nicholas Sparks novel and the hit 2004 movie, is headed to Broadway next spring, producer Kevin McCullom announced Thursday in New ...

  6. List of theaters in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Apollo Theater Chicago [54] Arie Crown Theatre [55] Auditorium Theatre [56] Briar Street Theater [57] Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place (formerly Drury Lane Water Tower Place) [58] Bughouse Theater; Cadillac Palace Theatre [59] Chicago Theatre [60] CIBC Theatre (formerly The Shubert Theatre) [61] Congress Theater [62] Greenhouse Theater ...

  7. Chicago Shakespeare Theater parts ways with longtime ... - AOL

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    Rick Boynton, a longtime creative producer who specialized in aiding the development of new musicals, including such Broadway titles as “Six,” “Illinoise” and “The Notebook,” is no ...

  8. Goodman Theatre - Wikipedia

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    The Goodman was founded in 1925 as a tribute to the Chicago playwright Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, who died in the Great Influenza Pandemic in 1918. The theater was funded by Goodman's parents, Mr. and Mrs. William O. Goodman, who donated $250,000 to the Art Institute of Chicago to establish a professional repertory company and a school of drama at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. [2]

  9. Merle Reskin Theatre - Wikipedia

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    The Merle Reskin Theatre is a performing arts venue located in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. Originally named the Blackstone Theatre it was built in 1910. Renamed the Merle Reskin Theatre in 1992, it is now part of DePaul University , and is also used for events and performances of other groups.

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