CHICAGO – Excelsior! Comic book legend Stan Lee’s famous exclamation puts a fine point on the third and final play of Mark Pracht’s FOUR COLOR TRILOGY, “The House of Ideas,” presented by and staged at City Lit Theater in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood. For tickets/details, click HOUSE OF IDEAS.
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Film Review: Law-Abiding ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore’
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‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’ Discovers the Wizard of Awe
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