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Reviews and photos for theater in Chicago and suburbs, including critic's picks from the Tribune's Chris Jones, Nina Metz and Kerry Reid. For more recommendations, go to The Theater Loop.
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- KERRY REID When: Through Nov. 13 (extended) Where: Lifeline Theatre, 6912 N. Glenwood Ave. Running time: 2 hours, 30 minutes Tickets: $32-$35 at 773-761-4477 or lifelinetheatre.com" width="354" height="500" class="gallery-slideshow-photo"/> |
"The Count of Monte Cristo" ★★★½
Christopher M. Walsh's stellar adaptation of Dumas' oft-told tale for Lifeline Theatre is a guilty theatrical pleasure you don't have to atone for afterward. It's zesty, good fun - colorful theatrical comfort food with enough philosophical seasoning and emotional heat.Quick summary. Sailor Edmond Dantes has been wrongly imprisoned by three men for a variety of reasons: one lusts for his fiancee, another envies his shipboard position, the third - a prosecutor - needs to cover up his own father's crimes. (A fourth has committed perhaps the worst crime of all - doing nothing in the face of his comrades' evil plans.) Dantes finally escapes after 14 years in a dank cell, accumulates a fortune and a title, and sets in motion an inexorable scheme to punish his malefactors.
- KERRY REID When: Through Nov. 13 (extended) Where: Lifeline Theatre, 6912 N. Glenwood Ave. Running time: 2 hours, 30 minutes Tickets: $32-$35 at 773-761-4477 or lifelinetheatre.com |
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