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Widening the borders of 'Winesburg, Ohio'

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 20040610
Author:Hedy Weiss

'WINESBURG OHIO'

When: June 17-July 18

Where: About Face Theatre at Steppenwolf Upstairs, 1650 N. Halsted

Tickets: $30-35

Call: (312) 335-1650

Tampering with success can be a very dicey business. So it makes perfect sense that the creative forces behind About Face Theatre's newly expanded version of "Winesburg, Ohio" -- a music-infused adaptation of Sherwood Anderson's classic 1919 portrait of a young writer, George Willard, and the secret lives and passions of the inhabitants of his Midwestern hometown -- might be a bit anxious.

After all, the show, which began life two years ago, generated a ...

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