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Victory Gardens Theater Frommer's Recommended

2433 N. Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60614

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Location 1 block north of Fullerton Ave,
Transportation Subway/El: Red or Brown line to Fullerton
Phone 773/871-3000
Web site www.victorygardens.org
Prices Tickets $30-$45

Review of Victory Gardens Theater

Victory Gardens is one of the few pioneers of off-Loop theater that has survived from the 1970s. The company was rewarded for its unswerving commitment to developing playwrights with a Tony Award for regional theater in 2001 -- a real coup for a relatively small theater. The five or six productions presented each season are new works, many developed through a series of workshops. The plays tend to be accessible stories about real people and real situations -- nothing too experimental. Even though most shows don't feature nationally known actors, the casts are always first-rate, and the plays usually leave you with something to think about (or passionately discuss) on the way home.

Victory Gardens stages shows at its main stage inside the former Biograph movie theater (known in Chicago lore as the place where the FBI gunned down bank robber John Dillinger in 1934). Smaller independent companies such as Shattered Globe and Remy Bumppo play on four smaller stages at the Victory Gardens Greenhouse Theater, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave., a few blocks south.

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