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.

'As You Like It,' Woodstock style

November 20th, 2019 10:32 AM

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

October 30th, 2019 10:07 AM

Oak Park Festival Theatre has a unique and seasonally eerie new production running now called The Madness of Edgar Allen Poe: A Love Story.

Best of Enemies: Racism vs. humanism

September 25th, 2019 10:02 AM

Plays based on real people and events often ignite with special intensity in performance.

Emerging from the shadow

September 18th, 2019 9:42 AM

A new play by Loy A. Webb, opened Sept. 5 at 16th Street Theater in Berwyn.

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Latest Blogs

I SEE DEAD PEOPLE The Tale of the Tombstones

October 13th, 2010 11:22 AM

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

October 7th, 2010 10:31 AM

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?

October 1st, 2010 12:06 PM

Philander Barclay's story is fraught with failure and drug addiction, and it doesn't end pretty.

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