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Doug Deuchler
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Doug Deuchler has been reviewing local theater and delving into our history for Wednesday Journal for decades. He is alsoa retired teacher and school librarian who is also a stand-up comic, tour guide/docent and author of several books about Oak Park and surrounding communities. Here's your chance to tap into Doug's knowledge of local theater, film and history.
Latest News Articles
Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins
The critically acclaimed Strawdog Theatre Company from Chicago's North Side is presenting their delightful, seasonal family show Hershel and The Hanukkah Goblins in our community at Temple Har Zion in River Forest.
'Xmas Remix' revives Dickens
16th Street Theater in Berwyn has mounted a very exciting and elaborate production, A Xmas Cuento Remix
'As You Like It,' Woodstock style
There is currently a fun production of the crowd-pleaser As You Like It playing at the Little Theater of Oak Park and River Forest High School that is entertaining and energetic
Loving through the madness
Oak Park Festival Theatre has a unique and seasonally eerie new production running now called The Madness of Edgar Allen Poe: A Love Story.
Latest Blogs
I SEE DEAD PEOPLE The Tale of the Tombstones
The award-winning tour in which costumed interpreters portray assorted "residents" of the 140-year-old Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park at their grave sites has been a very popular event for two decades.
Found Film - Time machine to 1933 Oak Park
I was trolling You Tube and discovered an exciting 9-minute 16 mm film. It's apparently part of someone's home movies from the early 1930s. Check it out
Who Was Poor Phil?
Philander Barclay's story is fraught with failure and drug addiction, and it doesn't end pretty.
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