Theater spotlight
Chicago Children's Theatre inaugurates is 149-seat Pritzker Family Studio Theatre with Magic City, a world-premiere collaboration with the acclaimed multimedia puppetry troupe Manual Cinema. This family-friendly hour-long show is an adaptation of Edith Nesbit's 1910 novel The Magic City, in which a little girl builds a miniature city that comes to life. Magic City runs from Friday, Jan. 27, through Sunday, Feb. 19, at Chicago Children's Theatre, The Station, 100 S. Racine Ave. Tickets are $25. For more information and a full schedule, call 872-222-9555 or visit ChicagoChildrensTheatre.org .
Caption: Chicago Children's Theatre collaborates with Manual Cinema on the world-premiere family-friendly show Magic City. Photo courtesy of Manual Cinema
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The Sundial, City Lit Theater at Edgewater Presbyterian Church, through Feb. 12. Shirley Jackson's wry humor redeems this fable of a snobbish clan driven to reckless and immoral extremes when faced with an unnamed threat. MSB
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