Review, Stages, Theater

Mercury Theater’s Avenue Q Remount a Welcome Return for 2018

Since it first premiered in 2003, the hot-button topics of the puppet-based musical, Avenue Q, seem to have only become hotter and hotter. Racism, homophobia, even post-graduate, millennial strife seem […]

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Preview, Stages, Theater

Interview: From Sesame Street to Broadway–Puppeteer Rick Lyon Reflects on a Life in Puppetry and Avenue Q

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Mercury Theater Chicago’s upcoming production of Avenue Q, a remount of the Tony award-winning musical that shattered box office records for the theater in 2014, features an exciting addition this […]

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