Apollo Theater to be sold at auction in January

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• Reviews are in for "THE NUTCRACKER"
by House Theatre, "A CHRISTMAS CAROL" at the Goodman, "A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS" at Northlight in Skokie and the Redmoon Theater's "WINTER PAGEANT."

• COMING AT STEPPENWOLF: Amy Morton and Tracy Letts are ready to tear it up in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf."

• THAT STOREFRONT EXPERIENCE: Read Mark Caro's story "Take your pick of the best — or only — seats in the house." Swiping candy from Michael Shannon's desk?

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of 10 young actors to watch for on Chicago-area stages.

• 2010 JEFF AWARDS: "Chad Deity" to "Ragtime," the winners of the Equity Joseph Jefferson Awards.

Shows are rated on a ???? scale

• "Aftermath" ???½
Through Jan. 23 at Signal Ensemble Theatre

• "Christmas Smackdown" ???
Through Dec. 22 in the Del Close Theater at i.O.

• "The Four of Us" ???½
Through Dec. 18 at Theatre Wit

• "Home" ????
Through Dec. 19 at Court Theatre

• "The Importance of Being Earnest" ??½
Through Jan. 9 by Remy Bumppo at the Greenhouse

• "Kid Sister" ???½
Through Dec. 19 at Profiles Theatre

• "Million Dollar Quartet" ? ? ?½
Through May 29 at the Apollo Theater

• "The Music Man" ???
Through Jan. 9 at the Marriott Theatre, Lincolnshire

• "The Nativity" ???
Through Dec. 31 by Congo Square at the Goodman

• "The Nutcracker" ????
Through Dec. 26 by House Theatre at the Chopin

• "Traces" ????
Through Jan. 1 at the Broadway Playhouse

• "Travels With My Aunt" ???
Through March 27 at Writers' Theatre

• "To Master the Art" ???
Through Dec. 19 at TimeLine Theatre

• "Wicked" ????
Through Jan 23 at the Cadillac Palace Theatre

• "Winter Pageant" ???
Through Jan. 2 at Redmoon Central

• "Alien Queen"
Through Dec. 18 at Circuit Nightclub

• "Local Wonders"
Through Jan. 9 by Full Sky at Chicago Dramatists

• "Pancake Breakfast"
Through Dec. 19 by New Colony at the Viaduct Theater

• "Boojum! Nonsense, Truth, and Lewis Carroll"
and "Cherry Smoke"

• "Bri-Ko: All Silent, All Funny"
Through Jan. 2 at Stage 773

• "A Christmas Carol"
Through Dec. 31 at the Goodman Theatre

• "Cats"
Through Jan. 2 by Theo Ubique at the No Exit Café

• "Brainpeople" and "Trans Form"

• "Redeemers" and "Pepsi Presents Sam Weiner"

• "Memory"
Through Dec. 18 by BackStage at the Viaduct Studio

• "A Civil War Christmas"
Through Dec. 19 at North Shore Center for the Arts

• "Float"
Through Dec. 12 by About Face Theatre at Theatre Wit

• "The Iliad"
Through Dec. 19 at A Red Orchid Theatre

• "Auctioning the Ainsleys"
Through Dec. 18 by Dog & Pony at The Building Stage

• "Jenny & Jenni"
Through Dec. 18 by Factory Theater at Prop Thtr

• "The Story of My Life"
Through Jan. 2 at the Victory Gardens Biograph

• "The Other Cinderella"
Through Jan. 9 at Black Ensemble Theater

• "Departure Lounge"
Through Dec. 12 at the Royal George Cabaret

• "Halfshut" and "The Water Engine"

• "Peter Pan"
Through Jan. 23 at Lookingglass Theatre

• "The Lonesome West"
Through Dec. 19 at The Gift Theatre

• "Sweet Bird of Youth"
Through Dec. 19 at The Artistic Home

• "Spoiler Alert: Everybody Dies"
Open run on the Second City Mainstage

• "The Addams Family" at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
• "American Idiot" at the St. James Theatre
• "Avenue Q" at the Golden Theatre
• "Billy Elliot" at the Imperial Theatre
• "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" at Bernard B. Jacobs
• "Bye Bye Birdie" at the Roundabout Theatre
• "Fela!" at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre
• "Hair" at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre
• "In the Heights" at the Richard Rodgers Theatre
• "La Bete" at the Music Box Theatre
• "A Life in the Theatre" at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
• "Memphis" at the Shubert Theatre
• "Million Dollar Quartet" at the Nederlander Theatre
• "Next to Normal" at Booth Theatre
• "The Pitmen Painters" at the Friedman Theatre
• "Promises, Promises" at the Broadway Theatre
• "Race" at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre
• "Rock of Ages" at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre
• "Time Stands Still" at the Friedman Theatre
• "West Side Story" at the Palace Theatre
• "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" at Belasco •  BEST OF 2010: 'A Streetcar Named Desire' leads a year of strong productions
•  A dozen female senators show up for Second City. Can you name them?
•  'Cash' by XIII Pocket: Stephen Louis Grush's play a wallow with the Man in Black
•  Apollo Theater to be sold at auction in January
•  With Renee Fleming on staff, Lyric Opera to pay more attention to American musicals
•  The holidays so far: Some shows are on rewind, others break new ice
•  Nora Dunn to preview new solo show at i.O.
•  Pegasus Players says it will come back to life and relocate to Beacon Street Theatre
•  'The Nativity' by Congo Square: Gospel music and the Gospel story, updated and still fresh
•  Report: Oprah Winfrey to act in 'Ruined'

• "August: Osage County"
• "Billy Elliot the Musical"
• "Million Dollar Quartet"
• "Shrek the Musical"
• "The Addams Family"
• 16th Street Theatre
• 500 Clown
• A Red Orchid Theatre
• About Face Theatre
• Actors Theatre Company
• Albany Park Theatre Project
• American Blues Theater
• American Musical Theatre Project
• American Players Theatre
• American Theater Company
• Annoyance Theatre
• Apple Tree Theatre
• Arie Crown Theatre
• Artistic Home
• Athenaeum Theatre
• BackStage Theatre Company
• Bailiwick Chicago
• Black Ensemble Theatre
• Blair Thomas & Co.
• Bohemian Theatre Ensemble
• Broadway
• Broadway in Chicago
• Broadway Playhouse
• Building Stage
• Chicago Children's Theatre
• Chicago Dramatists
• Chicago Muse
• Chicago Shakespeare Theater
• Circle Theatre
• Cirque du Soleil
• City Lit Theater
• Collaboraction
• Congo Square Theatre Company
• Court Theatre
• Dog & Pony Theatre Company
• Drury Lane Theatre
• Eclipse Theatre
• Elephant Eye Theatricals
• Factory Theater
• First Folio Theatre
• Gift Theatre
• Goodman Theatre
• Greenhouse Theater Center
• Griffin Theatre
• Harris Theater
• Hell in a Handbag Productions
• Hoover-Leppen Theater
• House Theatre of Chicago
• Hypocrites
• i.O. Theater
• Infamous Commonwealth
• Joseph Jefferson Awards
• Just For Laughs
• Lifeline Theatre
• Light Opera Works
• Live Bait Theater
• Lookingglass Theatre Company
• Marriott Theatre
• Mary Arrchie Theatre
• Mercury Theatre
• Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
• Neo-Futurists
• New Colony
• Next Theatre
• North Shore Center for the Performing Arts
• Northlight Theatre
• Obituaries
• Pegasus Players
• Piven Theatre Workshop
• Porchlight Music Theatre Chicago
• Profiles Theatre
• Provision Theatre
• Raven Theatre
• Ravinia Festival
• Redmoon Theater
• Redtwist Theatre
• Remy Bumppo Theatre Company
• Rivendell Theatre Ensemble
• Rosemont Theatre
• Route 66 Theatre Company
• Royal George Theatre
• Second City
• Shattered Globe
• Side Project
• Sideshow Theatre Company
• Signal Ensemble Theatre
• Silk Road Theatre Project
• Stage 773
• Stage Left Theatre
• Steep Theatre
• Steppenwolf Theatre Company
• Strangeloop
• Stratford Festival
• Strawdog Theatre
• Teatro Vista
• Teatro ZinZanni
• Theater Oobleck
• Theater Wit
• Theatre at the Center
• Theatre Building Chicago
• Theatre Seven
• Theatre-Hikes
• Theo Ubique Theatre Company
• TimeLine Theatre
• Tony Awards
• Trap Door Theatre
• TUTA Theatre
• Uptown Theatre
• Victory Gardens
• Writers' Theatre
• XIII Pocket
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Dear Mr. New Mayor, whoever you are ... An open letter about theater and the arts in Chicago

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Comedy | Children's | Chicago | Suburbs
Julia Keller will moderate "Critic's Eye: How the Tribune's Critics See the Chicago Arts Scene" with Chris Jones, Greg Kot, Michael Phillips, Howard Reich and John von Rhein on Oct. 11. More information on Trib Nation. • NEW THEATER LOOP NEWSLETTER
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Chris Jones picks his most-anticipated shows of the new season.
• Plus Kerry Reid's chart of 43 MORE in the city and suburbs.

• FALL GUIDE / MATCH YOUR MOOD: Chris Jones suggests shows to fit your personality, "Rock of Ages" to "Big River."

• HOT NEW FACES: Our annual picks of 10 young actors to watch for on Chicago-area stages.

• 2010 JEFF AWARDS: The nominations are in for the Equity Joseph Jefferson Awards, to be presented Oct. 25.

• "BILLY ELLIOT": When Elton John
first got to know a young dancer named Billy. | REVIEW from the Oriental Theatre

• MEET CHICAGO'S BILLYS:
Sid Smith takes a few moments with Tommy Batchelor, Giuseppe Bausilio, J.P. Viernes and Cesar Corrales. | SLIDESHOW of photos

Shows are rated on a ???? scale

• "The Absolute Best Friggin' Time of Your Life" ? ? ? ?
Open run at Second City e.t.c.

• "Big River" ???
Through Oct. 10 by BoHo at Theater Wit

• "Billy Elliot the Musical" ? ? ? ?
Through Jan. 15 at the Oriental Theatre

• "Billy Connolly Live!" ????
Through Oct. 16 at the Royal George Theatre

• "A Brief History of Helen of Troy" ???
Through Oct. 30 at Steep Theatre

• "The Comedy of Errors" ???
Through Oct. 17 at Court Theatre

• "A Chorus Line" ????
Through Oct. 31 at Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire

• "Daddy Long Legs" ???½
Through Oct. 24 at Northlight Theatre

• "Detroit" ???½
Through Nov. 7 at Steppenwolf Theatre

• "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" ???
Through Oct. 10 at Theatre at the Center

• "Frost / Nixon" ???½
Through Oct. 10 at TimeLine Theatre

• "The Invasion of Skokie" ???
Through Oct. 10 at Chicago Dramatists

• "Jailbait" ???
Through Oct. 17 at Profiles Theatre

• "The Lion King" ????
Through Nov. 27 at the Cadillac Palace Theatre

• "A Memory of Two Mondays" ???½
Through Oct. 17 at the Greenhouse Theater Center

• "Million Dollar Quartet" ? ? ?½
Through May 30 at the Apollo Theater

• "Night and Day" ???
Through Oct. 31 by Remy Bumppo at the Greenhouse

• "She Loves Me" ???
Through Nov. 21 at Writers’ Theatre

• "Speed-the-Plow" ????
Through Oct. 31 at American Theater Company

• "Suicide, Incorporated" ? ? ? ?
Through Oct. 10 at The Gift Theatre

• "Thieves Like Us" ???
Through Oct. 30 at the Chopin Theatre

• "1985"
Through Nov. 7 by Factory Theater at Storefront

• "Company"
Through Nov. 14 by Griffin Theatre at Stage 773

• "The Franklin Expedition" and "A Delicate Balance"

• "Zulu Fits"
Through Nov. 7 by MCPAACT at Greenhouse Theater Center

• "Obscura: A Voyeuristic Love Story"
Through Oct. 23 at Red Tape Theatre

• "The Lady's Not for Burning"
Through Oct. 31 at the No Exit Cafe

• "Seven Snakes" and "DIALogues"

• "The Wedding Singer"
Through Oct. 31 at Circle Theatre

• "Candide"
Through Oct. 31 at the Goodman Theatre

• "Wuthering Heights"
Through Oct. 31 at the Lifeline Theatre

• "That Pretty Pretty; or the Rape Play"
and "The Sound of a Yellow Flower"

• "Menorca"
Through Oct. 16 at the 16th Street Theater

• "Romeo and Juliet"
Through Nov. 21 at Chicago Shakespeare Theater

• "1001"
Through Oct. 9 by Collaboraction at Chopin Theatre

• "Closure" and "Debris of the Prophet"

• "Lovers" and "Under America"

• "Sunday in the Park With George"
Through Oct. 31 by Porchlight at Stage 773

• "Louis Slotin Sonata"
Through Oct. 24 by A Red Orchid Theatre

• "Spoiler Alert: Everybody Dies"
Open run on the Second City Mainstage

• "The Addams Family" at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
• "American Idiot" at the St. James Theatre
• "Avenue Q" at the Golden Theatre in New York
• "Behanding in Spokane" at the Schoenfeld Theatre
• "Billy Elliot" at the Imperial Theatre
• "By Bye Birdie" at the Roundabout Theatre
• "Come Fly Away" at the Marquis Theatre
• "Enron" at the Broadhurst Theatre
• "Fences" at Cort Theatre
• "Fela!" at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre
• "God of Carnage" at the Bernard Jacobs Theatre
• "Hair" at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre
• "In the Heights" at the Richard Rodgers Theatre
• "Memphis" at the Shubert Theatre
• "Million Dollar Quartet" at the Nederlander Theatre
• "Next to Normal" at Booth Theatre
• "Promises, Promises" at the Broadway Theatre
• "Race" at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre
• "Rock of Ages" at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre
• "Sondheim on Sondheim" at Studio 54
• "South Pacific" at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre
• "Time Stands Still" at the Friedman Theatre
• "The Miracle Worker" at Circle in the Square
• "A View From the Bridge" at Cort Theater
• "West Side Story" at the Palace Theatre •  Dear Mr. New Mayor, whoever you are ... An open letter about theater and the arts in Chicago
•  'Critic's Eye' is Monday at the new Playhouse
•  '1985' by Factory Theater: Chicago Bears satire '1985' is double-plus ungood
•  Michael Halberstam gets SDC award; David Cromer will present
•  Kerry Reid reviews 'The Franklin Expedition' and 'A Delicate Balance'
•  At the Museum of Contemporary Art, a taste worth trusting in Peter Taub
•  An older, grayer Billy Connolly at Royal George has lost none of his skill for juggling stories
•  Tweet this, Dick Costolo: An Annoyance actor does OK
•  Walter Stearns to exit Porchlight and take over Mercury Theatre
•  COMEDY PREVIEW: Billy Connolly, no looking back and hold the tomatoes

• "August: Osage County"
• "Billy Elliot the Musical"
• "Million Dollar Quartet"
• "Shrek the Musical"
• "The Addams Family"
• 16th Street Theatre
• 500 Clown
• A Red Orchid Theatre
• About Face Theatre
• Actors Theatre Company
• Albany Park Theatre Project
• American Blues Theater
• American Musical Theatre Project
• American Players Theatre
• American Theater Company
• Annoyance Theatre
• Apple Tree Theatre
• Arie Crown Theatre
• Artistic Home
• Athenaeum Theatre
• BackStage Theatre Company
• Bailiwick Chicago
• Black Ensemble Theatre
• Blair Thomas & Co.
• Bohemian Theatre Ensemble
• Broadway
• Broadway in Chicago
• Broadway Playhouse
• Building Stage
• Chicago Children's Theatre
• Chicago Dramatists
• Chicago Muse
• Chicago Shakespeare Theater
• Circle Theatre
• Cirque du Soleil
• City Lit Theater
• Collaboraction
• Congo Square Theatre Company
• Court Theatre
• Dog & Pony Theatre Company
• Drury Lane Theatre
• Eclipse Theatre
• Elephant Eye Theatricals
• Factory Theater
• Gift Theatre
• Goodman Theatre
• Greenhouse Theater Center
• Griffin Theatre
• Hell in a Handbag Productions
• Hoover-Leppen Theater
• House Theatre of Chicago
• Hypocrites
• i.O. Theater
• Infamous Commonwealth
• Joseph Jefferson Awards
• Just For Laughs
• Lifeline Theatre
• Light Opera Works
• Live Bait Theater
• Lookingglass Theatre Company
• Marriott Theatre
• Mary Arrchie Theatre
• Mercury Theatre
• Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
• Neo-Futurists
• New Colony
• Next Theatre
• North Shore Center for the Performing Arts
• Northlight Theatre
• Obituaries
• Pegasus Players
• Piven Theatre Workshop
• Porchlight Music Theatre Chicago
• Profiles Theatre
• Provision Theatre
• Raven Theatre
• Ravinia Festival
• Redmoon Theater
• Redtwist Theatre
• Remy Bumppo Theatre Company
• Rivendell Theatre Ensemble
• Rosemont Theatre
• Route 66 Theatre Company
• Royal George Theatre
• Second City
• Shattered Globe
• Side Project
• Sideshow Theatre Company
• Signal Ensemble Theatre
• Silk Road Theatre Project
• Stage 773
• Stage Left Theatre
• Steep Theatre
• Steppenwolf Theatre Company
• Strangeloop
• Stratford Festival
• Strawdog Theatre
• Teatro Vista
• Teatro ZinZanni
• Theater Oobleck
• Theater Wit
• Theatre at the Center
• Theatre Building Chicago
• Theatre Seven
• Theatre-Hikes
• Theo Ubique Theatre Company
• TimeLine Theatre
• Tony Awards
• Trap Door Theatre
• TUTA Theatre
• Uptown Theatre
• Victory Gardens
• Writers' Theatre
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