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LiveWire Chicago Theatre is an Illinois not-for-profit theater arts organization based in Chicago.

Past seasons have included the works of Jean-Paul Sartre No Exit , [1] Timberlake Wertenbaker Love of the Nightingale , [2] Mark Healy's adaptation of John Fowles' novel The Collector [3] and original work A/other Lover, [4] Soldiers: The Desert Stand [5] by Joshua Aaron Weinstein, VisionFest 2008, [6] Eric Bogosian's Red Angel [7] and David Lindsay-Abaire's Wonder of the World . [8]

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