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While new artistic leaders took over at Marriott, Goodman and Metropolis theaters this year, Aurora s Copley Theatre heralded a new era with the inauguration of its Bold Series in its newly renovated, 165-seat theater.
At The Edge Theater, north of Chicago, AstonRep Theatre Company opened their 15th and final season with a searing and beautiful production of Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Buried Child. Written in 1978, the play depicts the disillusionment that accompanies 22-year-old Vince’s return to his family’s Midwestern home. There, he finds his petulant grandfather, Dodge; nostalgic.