The French performance group Compagnie Transe Express will create a free outdoor spectacle at Navy Pier on July 11 and 12. Titled “Maudits Sonnants,” the hour-long piece will feature a “human carillon” suspended 200 feet up in the air — a musical chandelier with bell-ringers, percussionists, trapeze artists and other theatrics. … Collaboraction has announced three world premieres in its 2008-09 season: “Heroes and Villains” by Daniel Janoff; “Jon,” adapted and directed by Seth Bockley; and “El Grito del Bronx” by Migdalia Cruz. … Beginning July 4, the Chicago actors Molly Glynn and Kelly Cooper star in Noel Coward’s “Private Lives” by the Lake Geneva Theatre Company, a new company in the Wisconsin tourist destination. … Griffin Theatre’s production of “Letters Home” will embark on a national tour this fall. The hit piece comprises letters from U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq and their families back home.
