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Ghost Light: a roundup of offstage performing arts news and notes

Victory Gardens and Raven name new leadership; J. Nicole Brooks wins a prestigious playwriting grant.

Raven’s production has heart, but doesn’t fully connect the pieces.

Paula Vogel’s play is a stunner, but this production hits a few wrong notes.

Strawdog’s production of Bennett Fisher’s play feels like a torturous lecture.

Two young playwrights teeter on the precipice of success.

“Sandwich artists” go rogue and nameless women go nowhere in two of this week’s notable stage shows.

A kinder, gentler All About Eve and a multivarious chronicle of the migrant experience are among this week’s best bets.

Thought-provoking productions at A Red Orchid and Chicago Shakespeare Theater are among this week’s best bets.

Alfred Jarry’s absurdist satire and a minor masterpiece by Sam Shepard are among this week’s highlights.

Actor/stand-up/TV writer Mark Roberts brings a wild-and-crazy new comedy to town.

Off-Loop vet Richard Cotovsky stars in Uncle Bob, Austin Pendleton’s deeply flawed 1995 play about a washout who’s dying of AIDS.