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Bullets fly amid poignant comedy as Kokandy scores bull’s eye with Sondheim’s ‘Assassins’

Jul 7, 2014 – 8:13 pm | 3,360 views
Eric Lindahl as John Wilkes Booth in ASSASSINS Kokandy Productions (Joshua Albanese)

Review: Imagine a homicidal hearts club of a very particular kind, where killers of U.S. presidents (and would-be killers) gather to clash and kibitz and relive the “why” in a time-bending collage, and you have “Assassins.” Chicago’s latest pocket production of the John Weidman-Stephen Sondheim 1990 classic comes at the close of a remarkable season for precision-cut Sondheim stagings, and this is one of them. ★★★★

Porchlight’s ill-packaged ‘Gifts of the Magi’ muddles a simple message about true love

Nov 24, 2012 – 11:24 am | 7,938 views
Porchlight Music Theatre The Gifts of the Magi 2012 with Chelsea Morgan as Della Dillingham credit Kelsey Jorissen

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