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'Stoops' goes West in a fun reinvention

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 20070402
Author:Mary Houlihan

'SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER'

highly recommended

When: Through April 29

Where: Northlight Theatre, North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, 9501 Skokie Blvd., Skokie

Tickets: $34-$54

Call: (847) 673-6300

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Setting Irish playwright Oliver Goldsmith's 1773 comic masterpiece "She Stoops to Conquer" in the American West may seem like a loco idea. But adapter and director William Brown has such a sure hand with the material that the result is a miraculous -- and darn fun -- reinvention of an old standard. In fact, those familiar with the original will see the humor of the play is ...

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