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<p><font color="#333333" face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Kantipur"><font face="Verdana"><font size="3"><strong>2003:</strong> <strong>June </strong>NBTC made its local debut at Madsen Park for the Chicago Park District, by producing "<span>A Raisin In The Sun".&nbsp; <strong>August</strong>
our next production was a Chicago premiere of an original play "A
Package For Max" an adult comedy written by San Francisco Bay area
resident, John Angell Grant, at Teatro Luna in Chicago.&nbsp; To culminate
an active year for New Branch, in <strong>November</strong> NBTC
hosted an audience participatory dinner mystery show "Murder At
Lairmont Manor." at The Carleton Hotel of Oak Park in Oak Park,
Illinois.</span></font></font></font></font></p>

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