“The Rat Pack is Back! In the Tribute to Frank, Sammy, Joey and Dean” at the Royal George Theatre has abruptly closed after a six-month run. The show unexpectedly pulled the plug last Sunday–a victim, no doubt, of the notorious September slump in ticket sales, a common Chicago phenomenon. Individuals who have purchased tickets for previously scheduled performances may obtain a refund at the point of purchase. … Broadway star (and Chicago regular) Patti LuPone will appear with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in her show “Could, Woulda, Shoulda.” The Nov. 14 one-nighter at the Symphony Center is a benefit for the Jewish Community Centers of Chicago. … A new company called Gorilla Tango Theatre is setting up shop next month in Bucktown at 1919 N. Milwaukee Ave. (The troupe has bought its own building. A wide variety of theater and improv is promised–GLT’s original theater is in Albuquerque.) … Various Chicago playwrights including Stuart Dybek, Dean Corrin, Carlos Murillo, Douglas Post and Anne V. McGravie will present their works on the subject of peace at 6 p.m., Oct. 30, at the Loyola University Museum of Art, 820 N. Michigan Ave. The event is sponsored by the Chicago Network for Justice and Peace. … Larry Neumann Jr. stars as Edgar Allan Poe in the world premiere of “The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe: A Love Story,” beginning Saturday at the First Folio Shakespeare Festival in Oak Brook. … Following a sold-out, critically acclaimed run at the University of Illinois Chicago, Local Infinities Visual Theater is taking its bizarre anatomy-and-dissection show “Corpus Delicti: Just Desserts” to Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in North Chicago. Performances are Oct. 6 and 7.
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Compiled by Chris Jones
