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Pump Boys and Dinettes - Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace - 100 Drury Lane - Oakbrook Terrace, IL
There's a big hunk of Highway 57 covering up the red velour at the Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace. I mean this almost literally. On each side of the theater, there's a big a chunk of asphalt -- dividing...
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By Nina Metz
Buried Child - The Greenhouse Theater Center - 2257 N. Lincoln Ave. - Chicago, IL
The home fires burn with resentment and missed connections in the plays of Sam Shepard. Domestic bliss is an oxymoron, and mothers tend to be off in their own worlds, distancing themselves from the...
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