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REVIEW: 'King Lear' at Chicago Shakespeare Theater ★★★½ by Chris Jones

Barbara Gaines' raw and visceral Chicago Shakespeare Theater production of "King Lear" begins, poorly, with the titular monarch, he who hath ever but slenderly known himself, fast-forwarding through the songs of Frank Sinatra.

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 9:12am on September 18, 2014 ☆ ⚑

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